UPDATE: Delays and cancellations plagued commuters on Thursday morning as Deutsche Bahn (DB) recovered from a train drivers' strike, but services are now largely back to normal.
UPDATE: Germany's rail network has come to a silent halt with train drivers striking for 14 hours from 2pm on Wednesday to 4am on Thursday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded.
UPDATE: Train drivers will walk out across Germany from Tuesday night for nine hours in the first nationwide rail strike since 2011. The strike will hit city S-Bahn services.
The German Train Drivers' Union (GDL) announced that it was planning further strike action on Monday in response to an open letter it received from employer Deutsche Bahn (DB) last week.
Three men who allegedly beat up a family of three, including a six-year-old child, when they were asked to keep the noise down on a Berlin train, have handed themselves in to police.
Platforms at Mannheim station were finally cleared on Sunday night following the Friday evening crash between a Hungary-bound freight train and a Eurocity passenger service, which injured 35 people.
Thirty-five people were injured, four of them seriously, when a passenger train collided with a freight train late Friday near Mannheim station in southern Germany, the operator Deutsche Bahn said.
Thirty-three people were injured in southern Germany on Friday lunchtime when a regional passenger train collided with an articulated truck that was transporting a giant dumper truck.
Passengers on all German Intercity-Express (ICE) trains will have access to fast internet connections by the end of the year, Deutsche Bahn promised on Tuesday - but they'll have to pay for it.
A record number of passengers made formal complaints about Germany’s rail services in 2013, with Deutsche Bahn receiving 1.25 million claims. The company blamed the bad weather.
Train passengers can expect more delays across Germany as the head of Deutsche Bahn admitted he could not afford to repair the more than 1,000 bridges which urgently need attention.
Crabs measuring 20 centimetres across disrupted a train journey in central Germany on Sunday evening when they escaped from their container and scuttled down the carriage.
Panic broke out among 600 people packed into a dark, unventilated metro train stuck in a tunnel for half an hour in Hamburg on Saturday evening, after a fight at a station stopped traffic.
Fewer than half of Deutsche Bahn’s long-distance trains were running on schedule during most of December, according to statistics cited in a news report Friday. The figures point to the extent of last month's travel chaos due to heavy snowfall.
A brief rainy period will end the weekend’s glorious springtime weather, but sunshine will soon follow later in the week, the German Weather Service (DWD) said on Monday.
A drunk young man was dragged 200 metres after pressing his bare buttocks to a departing train window to insult a ticket inspector who had just thrown him off, police reported on Monday.
Two German teenagers arrested after beating a 50-year-old man to death at a regional express train station in Munich are likely to be charged with attempted murder and could face long jail sentences, police said on Sunday.
A German couple walked away from their crumpled car unscathed after colliding with a regional train that dragged them 20 metres along train tracks before halting near Linz, an Austrian press agency reported on Sunday.
