Overview
- Deutsche Bahn reports massive infrastructure damage over roughly five kilometers near Elze, with repairs expected to run for several weeks.
- Federal police say several wagons detached and struck an oncoming freight train, no one was injured, and the second train did not derail.
- DB says several thousand track components, overhead masts, signals, cables and three switches must be replaced to restore the corridor.
- The THW used small controlled blasts on Sunday to separate bent rails, an approach police said would speed safe reopening.
- Metronom projects full RE2 service only from February and RB77 is affected, with buses running between Nordstemmen and Banteln; long‑distance trains are unaffected, and a separate cable theft near Görlitz has halted Görlitz–Niesky services with repairs now expected Tuesday morning.