{"id":12530,"date":"2026-06-24T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12530"},"modified":"2026-06-24T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:32:00","slug":"germany-trains-across-the-country-have-been-shut-down-due-to-a-technical-malfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12530","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Trains across the country have been &#8220;shut down&#8221; due to a technical malfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trains  were brought to a standstill on Tuesday night in Germany, due to <b>a serious technical malfunction<\/b> in the railway communications system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Deutsche Bahn (DB)<\/b> has temporarily halted all train services due to a serious malfunction in the <b>GSM-R<\/b> radio communication system, as announced by the German railway company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a malfunction in the GSM-R system. Our technicians are working feverishly to resolve the problem,\u201d a company spokesperson said late Tuesday night, explaining that <b>trains are temporarily remaining at safe locations until their normal operation can be restored. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The result was a<b> domino effect of delays and cancellations<\/b> across the entire German rail network\u2014intercity, regional, high-speed (ICE), commuter trains, and even on trains operated by the private company Metronom.<\/p>\n<p>The first Deutsche Bahn (DB) trains began running in the early hours of this morning.<\/p>\n<p>This development comes at a time when the German rail network is already under pressure due to <b>extensive upgrade projects, delays, and reliability issues<\/b> that have drawn intense criticism in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trains came to a standstill on Tuesday night in Germany due to a serious technical malfunction in the railway communications system.&nbsp;In a temporary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}