Overview

• After Tuesday’s fire at Deutsche Bahn’s Gerwisch signal box, ICE and IC trains between Berlin and Magdeburg are being rerouted with about 45 minutes of delay and are skipping Potsdam and Brandenburg Hauptbahnhof.
• Regional services are partly replaced by buses between Biederitz and Burg, with an adjusted plan sending RE1 to Möser and bus links onward to Magdeburg-Neustadt from Wednesday.
• Police say the building remains inaccessible and report damage in the six- to seven-figure range; the cause is still unknown, and the Federal Police and the Stendal police inspectorate have opened investigations.
• In North Rhine-Westphalia, state security is probing separate incidents including cut signaling cables that shut the Cologne–Düsseldorf line for roughly 17 hours and a cable fire near Heinsberg, while a Duisburg track fire is under review.
• Prosecutors say investigators are working in all directions and have secured traces, no suspects have been publicly identified, the railway stresses fail‑safe signaling protects passengers, and proven sabotage can carry penalties of up to five years’ imprisonment.