Railway chaos in the Oberland: rail replacement traffic until further notice!
Railway chaos in the Oberland: rail replacement traffic until further notice!
in the Oberland, a large chaos has been making a big chaos since last Sunday, July 4, 2025 after the railway line between Holzkirchen and Deisenhofen had to be closed. The reason for the drastic measures are damaged concrete thresholds from seven switches that were discovered during a regular inspection. This problem draws wide circles, because the blocking not only affects the said route, but also the train stations in Deisenhofen and Unterhaching. The Bavarian Regiobahn (BRB) has already reacted and let the trains end in Holzkirchen-the S3 of the S-Bahn Munich only runs until Giesing.
In order to offer the rail traveler a way of moving, a replacement of rails was set up. From Wednesday, July 7th, there will be a fixed timetable that includes numerous buses and up to 60 large-scale taxis that commute between Holzkirchen and Giesing and hold at all affected S-Bahn stations. However, travelers have to expect extended travel times, since the replacement offer cannot completely replace the capacity of train traffic, such as the Deutsche Bahn reported.
demands for quick measures
Transport Minister Christian Bernreiter has requested urgent measures from the railway, while those responsible work on an interim solution. The expansion of the course and the bridging with straight rail pieces is planned. According to the Merkur , the problem with the concrete throws in Garmisch-Partenkirchen has been on the agenda in June 2022 Urgency of the situation underlines again.
A look into the future of the rail infrastructure
Against the background of these current problems, the Deutsche Bahn tries to invest 16.4 billion euros in the renewal of the rail infrastructure as part of its comprehensive strategy, as reports the Tagesschau . The goal is to stop the infrastructure to decrease and reduce the unpunctuality of rail traffic. It was recently found that the "age -based catch -up requirement" is estimated at an impressive 103.4 billion euros, with over 59 billion euros on bridges.The completely new orientation and the planned investments could help drastically reduce the frequent disorders in rail traffic in the coming years. By 2030, the railway plans to fundamentally renew its high-loaded rail network and at the same time hire 5,500 new employees for maintenance and expansion projects. The coming weeks and months will show how effectively these measures can be implemented in order to cope with the challenges that the current rail replacement traffic brings.
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