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Bremen Rail Disruptions After Station Lockdown and Unresolved Track Incident

Investigators are still trying to identify the person reportedly contacted by a train near Walle.

Overview

  • Bremen Hauptbahnhof was fully closed around 16:00 after a rooftop suicide report, then reopened at 16:42 when searches found no one on the roof.
  • Earlier, a confused 20-year-old had climbed onto the station roof at 15:27, was secured by 15:37, and was later admitted to a psychiatric clinic for self-endangering behavior.
  • Roughly an hour after the station searches, a train driver in Walle reported a man being touched by a train; only a bloodied cap was found despite searches with dogs, and police are seeking witnesses.
  • The day’s disruptions totaled 104 train cancellations and 6,914 minutes of delay, with substitute services and reroutes and passengers reporting poor information during the outages.
  • Separately, an 83-year-old driver was slightly injured in a car–train collision at a Weyhe level crossing, with local and federal authorities coordinating responses across the region.