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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Christoph Steitz and Christine Uyanik

German train operator says workers to blame for outage that stranded travellers nationwide

A communications system outage that plunged Germany’s rail network into disarray, leaving travellers stranded across the country, has been attributed to workers swapping out a component.

The federal government-owned network operator, Deutsche Bahn, issued an apology for the abrupt cessation of services, which began late on Tuesday and gradually resumed approximately two hours later, after midnight.

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