Railway chaos in Frankfurt: Massive disorders due to a lack of staff!

On New Year's Eve (December 31), there were considerable disorders in rail traffic around Frankfurt. Parts of regional traffic and two S-Bahn lines in the Rhein-Main area were affected. The cause of the restrictions was the short -term illness of signal box staff, which is why no substitute personnel could be provided. The restrictions were carried out from Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. to Wednesday morning (January 1) at 6 a.m.

Especially the RE2, which usually connects Frankfurt, Mainz, Bingen and Koblenz, ended prematurely in Rüsselsheim. In addition, the S-Bahn line 8 between Raunheim and Frankfurt-Stadion was diverted, whereby stopped in Kelsterbach, Frankfurt airport regional train station and Gateway Gardens. The S-Bahn line 9 was completely stopped from New Year's Eve at 8 p.m. to New Year at 6 a.m. A replacement traffic with buses between Raunheim and Frankfurt-Gateway Gardens was set up for the affected routes.

long -term timetable changes

In the coming weeks, lower connections in regional traffic around Frankfurt can also be expected. According to the Deutsche Bahn, the reason for this is a lack of staff in the signal boxes. The timetables in the evening are thinned out by the end of March, starting from Monday.

The changes affected are several regional railway lines, including the RB 40/41, which connects Lahn-Dill and Schwalm-Eder with the Rhein-Main area, as well as RB 34, which leads Glauburg-Stockheim to Frankfurt. In the evening hours there will be partial failures between 8 and 11:30 p.m.

Concrete restrictions refer to the RB 12, which does not offer a connection between Frankfurt Höchst and Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof, as well as RB 34 with a lack of connections between Bad Vilbel and Frankfurt Central Station. The RB 40/41 also recorded failures in the Friedberg - Frankfurt main station section. In the S1 S-Bahn line, the trips in the Flörsheim-Rödermark-Ober-Roden section are only available every 30 minutes instead of every 15 minutes. The RE 20/RB 22 also has failures between Hofheim/Taunus and Frankfurt Central Station between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Deutsche Bahn pursues the goal of ensuring reliable offers from the other connections and better react to short -term failures. The railway endeavors to recruit more staff for the signal boxes, but this requires well -founded training and familiarization. Similar strategies for reducing the trips were already implemented at the end of January in local transport in Frankfurt with fewer trips from subways, trams and buses.