Deutsche Bahn reduces ICE holds: Hamm and Bielefeld affected!

Deutsche Bahn has made extensive changes to train traffic, which primarily affect the connections at the Hammer Central Station. From December 2024, the number of ICE contents in Hamm and Bielefeld will be significantly reduced to compensate for delays on the route to Berlin. In the future, every fourth stop will be lost, and from summer 2025 every second stop should be canceled. These new regulations apply until the end of 2025, as on Wa.de

With the timetable change in December 2024, the announcement of the restrictions was announced. According to the construction site portal of the railways, larger cuts will be noticeable in the near future: From October 19 to December 14, 2024, a section of the route between Hamm and Hagen will be blocked due to construction work. These measures take place in connection with the expansion of the A1 at the Dortmund/Unna cross, which leads to restrictions in local and long-distance transport. Connections between Cologne, Wuppertal and Hagen are out in long -distance transport, and are also omitted in Schwerte and Unna. Details can be found at soester-anzeiger.de find.

restrictions for long -distance transport

The new regulation stipulates, among other things, that the hourly time to Berlin and Düsseldorf for Hamm is reduced to a two-hour clock. In addition, the hourly ICE connection to Cologne ends, which was adapted to a two-hour time a year ago. In long-distance transport there will be further restrictions on the ICE line Bonn-Wuppertal-Hannover-Berlin, so that it is wrong between Hamm and Berlin, while the holds in Cologne, Wuppertal and Hagen are eliminated.

For the regional connections, disorders have also been announced: the lines RE7, RE13, RB53 and RB59 report failures. In order to counteract these restrictions, Deutsche Bahn has set up replacement traffic for the affected regional trains. The balance sheet of the measures shows that significantly reduced connections can be expected in both the local and long-distance transport.