A scary experience shook up one newly arrived expat in Berlin. Yet a stroke of faith - and the kindness of strangers - put things in a different perspective.
After passengers complained when they spotted a woman orally satisfying her partner on a mid-morning train in the capital, the copulating couple took exception to being disturbed.
Munich’s Ostbahnof was completely closed down on Wednesday morning after freezing temperatures made regular service impossible. In Berlin the situation was only slightly better.
With the goal of helping suburban trains in Stuttgart to run on time more often, Deutsche Bahn (DB) on Monday introduced a platform with colourful flashing lights at one of its S-Bahn stations.
The single route that funnels all suburban trains through Munich city centre is just one section of track in the Bavarian capital that will undergo significant repairs in 2018.
Police are investigating the behaviour of security personal on the S8 metro line from Munich Airport to the city, after they dragged a fare-dodging passenger from the train.
Munich's mayor on Wednesday is set to cut the turf on the building site of a second train tunnel through the inner city. It'll turn the city centre into a building site for a decade - but is it worth it?
Around 500 football fans were packed into an S-Bahn service to the Allianz Arena in Munich on Wednesday evening when the train broke down, causing panic.
Germany's national rail operator is in hot water after a ticket controller reacted aggressively to a newly arrived Chinese traveler who made one of the most basic transit mistakes: forgetting to stamp her ticket.
A man has been taken to hospital in Munich with serious injuries after he was rolled over by several trains following a drunken plunge off a station platform.
Almost 34,000 people were dragged before Berlin's courts for fare-dodging in 2014, as the capital's public transport company cracks down hard on travelling without a ticket.
On Tuesday evening four men attacked and badly injured a 36-year-old passenger on the Berlin metro system - only the latest in a series of such attacks.
Six people were hurt in Berlin when a train came off the tracks at lunchtime on Tuesday. Emergency workers said they were glad the incident was not more serious.
Berlin authorities have issued a Europe-wide tender to operate a chunk of the capital's suburban train system in the hope of reducing costs and improving the heavily criticised service in the impoverished city-state.
The German capital’s entire commuter train system broke down on Thursday afternoon, leaving thousands stuck in trains on the tracks. The Berlin authorities do not suspect an attack behind the S-Bahn malfunction.
