Ludwigslust/Schwerin (dpa/mv) - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania only marginally affected the large-scale failures in northern German train traffic on Saturday. In the north-east, long-distance and local trains ran as normally as possible, as a railway spokesman said.
There were failures in MV in the morning on the Berlin-Hamburg route. Around 50 passengers were stranded in Ludwigslust after their ICE from Berlin no longer continued to Hamburg due to the disruption. About half of the passengers went back to Berlin by train, reported one traveler. The others tried to get on with taxis or local transport in the direction of Hamburg.
After the damage was repaired in the morning, long-distance traffic started rolling again on this route. Local traffic to the west ended for several hours at the state border with Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony. According to Bahn, the cause of the disruption was sabotage of important cables.
