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Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem

Hacker News by sva_ 125 votes 10042 karma 2h ago

comments (10)

If this weren’t Deutsche Bahn, I’d say it’s a cyber attack. Given that this is Deutsche Bahn, though, it may just as well be a maintenance issue.

mmoll 2h ago
There was also a very peculiar train crash in the UK just a few days ago. A train hit a stationary train. That shouldn't really happen in this day and age. Sabotage was the first thing that came to my mind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gy60gg6k5o

felooboolooomba 2h ago
Word on the german bahn reddit seems to be that a buggy software update is the cause. Remains to be seen if this is the real cause

ripbozo 2h ago
"IT Outage: No train service nationwide. Due to a nationwide outage of the GSMR digital rail radio system, all trains are being held at stations. We are working around the clock to resolve the issue.
Our technicians are working around the clock to resolve the outage.
Please continue to check your travel connection immediately before departure using the travel information service at bahn.de, the DB Navigator app, or by calling the travel information hotline at 030/2970."
https://www.bahn.de/service/fahrplaene/aktuell

modinfo 2h ago
It's a GSM-R issue. See Tagesschau (German): https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/deutsche-bahn-...

d2kx 1h ago
Trains are being started up again (staggered because the current draw of so many accelerating trains could cause problems) since about 10 minutes past midnight, 30 minutes ago.

gpvos 1h ago
The fallback for GSM-R is the normal GSM network, but according to informed guesses I've read, the handsets still need to authenticate using their GSM-R credentials (it's just normal GSM roaming), and that's failing too.

gpvos 1h ago
Any HNer blocked in a DB train who can share with us the experience?

dgellow 2h ago
It doesn’t surprise me at all. Deutsche Bahn got so bad in the recent years that Switzerland started turning some German trains around at Basel (border) to protect its own timetable from DB delays.

mfiro 1h ago
Downdetector shows parallel disruption spikes, similar pattern as end of last year, not as widespread yet. https://downdetector.com

DanielleMolloy 1h ago