For millions of people, it was said at Christmas “driving home for christmas” – because you chose the train for the trip home. In time the trains on the railway were not always…
Berlin – In the Christmas traffic, long-distance trains of the Deutsche Bahn, were punctual on the road than in the previous months. From last Saturday to Wednesday morning, more than 85 percent were in the IC, EC and ICE trains on time, said the railway in Berlin on Wednesday. This, in turn, means that around 15 per cent were too late.
The punctuality of fraud in November, an average of 70.4 per cent in October, compared to 71.8 percent. A train is according to the Definition of the train may be late, if he enters more than five minutes after the planned arrival at the train station.
Deutsche Bahn: To Christmas of 400,000 travellers in addition to 44 additional trains
Last Christmas were in accordance with the particulars of a railway spokesperson, more than 90 percent of all trains on time. A railway spokesman said on Wednesday, however, that a comparability due to the different underlying holidays is difficult.
this year, the railway transported according to information from Thursday until Christmas eve, around 2.4 million passengers in long-distance transport. This is more than 400.00 travelers were. A total of 44 additional long-distance trains were used to cope with Christmas travel. Just before the holidays strike waves had buffeted the path arg.
All other problems had been reported to the railway met, of all places, on Christmas eve in Munich: There are two ICE trains when Shunting-property damage in the six figure range was the result, as merkur.de*.
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