Another DB (German Rail) strike starts tomorrow

Deutsche Bahn drivers are becoming like their counterparts at Lufthansa.

A strike lasting several days is scheduled to start today for freight trains and will begin tomorrow for passenger trains, according to Reuters.

It will last for some considerable time.

So take note if you are planning to travel to, from or through Germany by rail in the week ahead.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/04/us-germany-trains-strike-idUSKBN0NP0W220150504

This lot are worse the London Underground

Strange how Germany know has problems with unions damaging its economy. That is a big change on just a few years ago.

AMcWhirter – 05/05/2015 09:50 BST
Of course, there are DB ICE trains on this route too but they are likely to be more affected.

Hi AMc

In my irritation at this strike I didn’t think to thank you for the heads-up, so thank you for the heads-up, otherwise I might have had a long wait at Cologne. I’ve had to change plans, significantly, and have hired a car.

My plan was to get the train from Liege to AMS for an EZY back to Edinburgh, but that’s not going to work now so I am having to cancel the flights, and trains, and fly back Friday AM from Cologne thereby dropping the car back off and avoiding a ludicrous one-way car-hire fee.

*Sigh*……lost about £300.00 on the whole exercise, and Friday morning in the office lost too.

Rgds.
AOTG.

Is the S Bahn at FRA flug (to city) affected?? Meant to be going twice over the next few days…

One beneficiary of the strike is Air Berlin.

Today the airline’s CEO Stefan Pichler said that the DB drivers strike was generating an additional Euros 200,000 turnover per day.

The Swiss Rail website SBB.CH has real time info on the strike. Enter your route then press the red “electric” symbol, then “more”.

Alternatively go to:

http://www.sbb.ch/en/timetable/rail-traffic-information.html

Choose International then Germany. Takes you to:

http://www.bahn.de/blitz/view/index.shtml

It’s in German but Google translate seems to work well. All much more helpful the the bahn.De (on my Samsung Tab) which gives the times but says to check.

Hope the above links prove useful?

I am due to be in Germany and using the trains 22-27 May. How frequent are these strikes – does anyone know? This current week long fiasco will I presume have finished by then but will the next one be on by then?

Any advice most welcome!