mon 04 jan 2016, 14:51

Germans night in intercity by freezing rain

EMDEN –

More than six hundred passengers spent the night from Sunday to Monday in Germany spent in an intercity. Which remained the centre of the hague, because the catenary was frozen. Eventually left the train Monday morning, only 22 hours late.

Photo: Press Office GinoPress

Most of the passengers had the christmas holidays spent on Norderney, a German island in the Wadden sea. Their train had Sunday morning departing from Norddeich Mole, the place where their ferry arrived. Because of the cold, left the train, however, three hours later than planned. Shortly after departure wrecked the train. Only on Sunday night could be a locomotive, the train is towed to a small station. The Red Cross caught the passengers, among whom were thirty children, with food and blankets.

Because of the freezing rain wanted to bus companies and taxi services are not to the station to the travelers to pick up. So he turned the train back to the station. Travelers had to be in the compartments and in the departure lounge at the ferry terminal to sleep.

In the evening and night kept the travelers get the mood going, but early Monday morning, hit the atmosphere. Shortly after departure wrecked the train again, due to a wisselstoring in the city of Emden. “It is like a mirror. But in Russia drive the trains. Why it will not succeed, is a mystery to me”, said one of the passengers. The fault could be quickly remedied.

Because of the freezing rain there were also a lot of car accidents. In the länder lower Saxony and Bremen have happened in 24 hours time more than three hundred accidents. People were multiple people injured, but according to the police had it worse. In the capital Berlin layers multiple tram lines flat because of wisselstoringen. The mercury dropped during the night to 10 degrees below zero. At the place Malchow had the fire department a lot of effort in order to extinguish a fire, because the snakes always frozen.