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Emergency closure of one of Germany's main rail routes
A freight train collision west of Wolfsburg has closed the railway line used by trains travelling between Berlin and multiple other cities including Hannover, Kassel and Koln.
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The railway to the west of Wolfsburg has been closed until December 16th due to the damage caused by a collision between two freight trains.
As a result many the routes of the express IC and ICE trains which typically used the high-speed route between Berlin and Wolfsburg, have had to be temporarily revised.
The key alterations are:
- The ICE trains on the Koln - Wuppertal - Hamm - Hannover - Wolfsburg - Berlin route and the Dusseldorf - Essen = Dortmund - Hamm - Hannover - Wolfsburg - Berlin route are being diverted on to a much longer route for the part of the journey between Hannover and Berlin.
As a result these trains will be departing from Berlin around two hours earlier and arriving in Berlin around two hours later, plus these trains won't be calling in Wolfsburg. - The trains which normally take a Amsterdam - Osnabruck - Hannover - Wolfsburg - Berlin route are being turned around in Hannover
- The ICE trains which normally take the Basel - Karlsruhe - Frankfurt (Main) Fulda - Kassel - Gottingen - Braunschweig- Berlin route are being diverted between Frankfurt and Berlin, so won't be calling at Kassel, Gottingen and Braunschweig.
- The IC trains which normally take a Leipzig - Magdeburg - Hannover - Bremen - Emden route are cancelled between Leipzig and Hannover.
Simon Harper
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