Germany’s biggest rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) paid out €53.6 million in compensation to customers last year, according to a DB spokeswoman – a huge increase from the €34.6 million that was reimbursed to passengers in 2017, or double that of the previous year.
A drunk ICE driver who was found to have a staggering alcohol level of just under 0.25% (2.5 per mille) missed a scheduled stop, and was later escorted off the train by police.
A fire in an ICE train on the Frankfurt-Cologne high-speed railway line has triggered a major rescue operation and led to the closure of one of the most important arteries in German rail traffic.
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.
Authorities were trying to track down a 30-year-old man from Mönchengladbach on Monday after he allegedly raped a woman in the toilet of a train chartered for football fans.
Two full passenger trains came close to a frontal collision on Thursday at Utting train station after they had been directed towards the same platform.
Deutsche Bahn (DB) heralded the opening of the high-speed rail line between Berlin and Munich as a significant moment in German rail history. But the opening went far from smoothly.
German investigators on Wednesday were working to determine what caused the collision between a passenger train and a stationary freight train near the city of Düsseldorf that left 41 people injured.
The train passenger association Pro Bahn has called for Wolfsburg to become a regular stop on trains to Berlin, after yet another driver of a high-speed ICE train missed the stop on Sunday.
This week Deutsche Bahn (DB) unveiled plans for its new "Idea Train". The hope is that the ultra-futuristic train will be able to compete with self-driving cars and make commuting much more relaxing.
A 59-year-old man can be thankful that he is still alive, after he held onto the side of a high-speed train from Bielefeld to Hanover as it moved away with his luggage inside, Deutsche Bahn said on Thursday.
Calls of "Einmal die Fahrkarten bitte!" or "tickets please" may soon be a thing of the past with the increasing digitalisation of rail travel in Germany.
Germany's leading long-distance bus operator Flixbus on Wednesday said it had joined forces with a Czech company to rescue the crowd-funded rail start-up Locomore and get its trains back on the rails.
Berlin rail startup Locomore has been placed into administration just months after it launched a challenge to state-owned monolith Deutsche Bahn, which dominates long-distance train travel in Germany.
Commuters in Dortmund had to deal with massive disruption to their travel plans on Tuesday morning after a high speed train derailed at the central station on Monday.
Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) have come in for hefty criticism in recent years due to the poor punctuality of their trains. Their answer could infuriate many passengers.
A young man from Austria had trouble distinguishing between two not so similar place names after a weekend at Munich's famous beer festival - and ended up in the wrong country.
