{"id":397845,"date":"2026-04-01T19:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=70400"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:31:01","slug":"no-trains-to-or-from-germany-as-key-overhead-line-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=397845","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No trains to or from Germany\u2019 as key overhead line fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An emergency situation in Germany has led to a severe restriction in international traffic, reports rail freight operator METRANS. An overhead line failed on the Hamburg-Hannover railway, the main detour route for the closed Hamburg-Berlin railway.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-70400\"><\/span>The overhead contact line failure occurred in the evening on 31 March between Bad Bevensen and Uelzen. As a result, the Hamburg-Hannover railway has been closed entirely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince this is the primary detour route for the Hamburg &#8211; Berlin closure, the German railway infrastructure is not accepting any trains into Germany. At the same time, service in the opposite direction has also been suspended\u201d, says METRANS.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions affect all services transiting Germany to and from Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, the Balkans, Poland, and, to some extent, domestic German services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emergency situation in Germany has led to a severe restriction in international traffic, reports rail freight operator METRANS. An overhead line failed on the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,471,78,47],"tags":[12634],"class_list":["post-397845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-news","category-rail-freight","category-rail-news","tag-railfreight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398330,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397845\/revisions\/398330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}