Overview
- Deutsche Bahn closed the Nürnberg–Ingolstadt high‑speed line from the late evening of 30 October and says the full shutdown will last until 12 December to replace rails, switches and other infrastructure.
- Long‑distance ICE services between Munich and Nuremberg are being diverted via Augsburg, Donauwörth and sometimes Treuchtlingen which causes longer journeys and altered connections to cities such as Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Dortmund.
- Regional services between Nürnberg and Ingolstadt use replacement buses that double typical Regionalexpress travel times and stop at added points like Allersberg and Kinding, and these buses cannot carry bicycles because of limited space.
- Nightly works on the Nürnberg–Bamberg corridor have forced timetable changes and bus replacement services between 20:30 and 06:30 and will continue through 25 November, affecting S1 and Regionalexpress lines 14 and 19.
- The train drivers’ union GdL warns that heavier traffic on diversion routes has produced new slow‑speed sections down to about 40 km/h and could cause further delays and extra wear while DB stresses the work is a roughly €70 million investment to keep the line serviceable for years and urges passengers to check DB Navigator or bahn.de.