Bahn Is Sticking To The Timetable In November

Deutsche Bahn wants to maintain train operations almost without restrictions from next week during the renewed partial lockdown in the Corona crisis. "We continue to run the full timetable," said Berthold Huber, Board Member for Passenger Transport. "Train operations at DB are therefore going according to plan." Except for a few trains, including individual sprinter and amplifier trains, everything should run in long-distance traffic. In regional transport, on the other hand, the federal states, as the responsible authorities, have "so far without exception" signaled that they would maintain the offer unchanged if possible, Huber said. The federal and state governments decided on Wednesday to ban tourist accommodation from next week and to close bars, restaurants and pubs as well as museums and other sights. The background is the rapidly increasing number of infections in the corona crisis. During the pandemic-related restrictions in spring, the railway made around three quarters of its trips, and since the summer the trains have been running 100 percent again. In the past few weeks, Deutsche Bahn had again recorded a decline in the number of passengers. "Since the beginning of October we have been registering increasing uncertainty among our long-distance customers, while the volume of regional traffic has remained stable," the group announced last week. The long-distance bus company Flixbus, which is also active in long-distance rail transport under the Flixtrain brand, announced on Thursday that it would cease both bus and train services in the coming weeks.