Train travel - Rail strike will hit Bavarian regional transport hard
The latest warning strike by the train drivers' union GDL will severely disrupt regional Deutsche Bahn train services in Bavaria. DB Regio assumes that the 24-hour work stoppage by train drivers from Thursday evening at 10 p.m. will have a massive impact on all German rail operations. This was announced by a DB spokesperson in Munich.
There is an emergency timetable for long-distance services. However, many regional trains will also be canceled: "In regional transport, the aim is to run a greatly reduced service," explained the spokesperson. "The extent to which this is possible varies greatly from region to region." It was not immediately clear whether and to what extent the S-Bahn trains in Munich and Nuremberg would run. DB has set up a telephone hotline, which can be reached on 08000 99 66 33.
The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) are suspending their connections to and from Bavaria during the warning strike, but intend to run their inner-Austrian trains from Tyrol to Salzburg and vice versa via Rosenheim as usual. Although this connection is on Bavarian territory, it has always been used by ÖBB.
The private railroad companies, which operate on several important routes, are not on strike. The companies want to maintain their train services to the full extent possible, but could be indirectly affected if DB Netz signalmen or dispatchers are also unable to work.
"There may still be train cancellations and delays," said a Go Ahead spokesperson; the company's trains run on the busy Augsburg-Munich route, among others. Go Ahead expects trains to be fuller than usual and recommends that passengers check online shortly before their journey.
Bayerische Regionalbahn, whose trains run from Munich to Rosenheim and Salzburg, among others, expects limited effects, according to a spokeswoman. "Although the GDL members of the Transdev companies, to which BRB belongs, have also been called to strike this time, only a few BRB employees belong to this union."
Agilis in Regensburg also intends to maintain operations as far as possible: "Agilis trains will also run as usual on Thursday evening and Friday," the company announced on X - formerly Twitter. Agilis runs from Regensburg along the Danube, both in the direction of Swabia and Lower Bavaria.
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Source: www.stern.de
