BERLIN — Practice companies had been halted briefly throughout a swath of northern Germany on Saturday after a communication system failed, an outage that the nationwide railway operator stated was brought on by sabotage.
Operator Deutsche Bahn stated early Saturday that no long-distance or regional trains had been working within the northwestern states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Decrease Saxony and Bremen. That meant that trains between Berlin and Cologne, and between the capital and Amsterdam, additionally weren’t working, whereas trains from Denmark weren’t crossing the border into Germany.
After a virtually three-hour suspension, Deutsche Bahn stated the issue — a “failure of the digital prepare radio system” — had been resolved however that some disruption might nonetheless be anticipated.
Deutsche Bahn stated later Saturday that the disruption was brought on by “sabotage of cables which might be important for railway visitors,” and that safety authorities had opened an investigation, German information company dpa reported.
There was no speedy phrase on who may need been accountable.