Overview
- Deutsche Bahn says extensive cabling must be replaced and cannot yet give a precise end time, with work continuing at least through Saturday.
- The outage stems from a fire in a peripheral switchgear that damaged signalling cables, preventing switches and signals around Krefeld from being operated.
- Regional lines including RE 4, RE 7, RE 10, RE 11, RE 42, RB 33, RB 35 and RB 37 face cancellations, reroutings or shortened routes across the Lower Rhine and Ruhr corridors.
- Replacement buses run only in limited form, and earlier cancellations led to disputes over who ordered them, with DB, Rhein‑Ruhr‑Bahn and Regio‑Bahn pointing to one another.
- Specific measures include RE 7 turning at Neuss, RE 10 operating only to Kempen with buses toward Neuss, RB 33 suspended with bus cover by several firms, RB 35 ending at Rheinhausen, and RB 37 canceled, with travelers urged to check zuginfo.nrw.