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Cologne / Berlin - Across the nation, and 400 travel centers in almost all 7000 train ticket machines the same picture. "Out of Service" was on display in Germany.
A malfunction in the computer system of the train yesterday and virtually paralyzed the ticket sales caused in large parts of Germany for delays.
After a network outage went from 14 clock any more. Thousands of customers were in the vending machines at counters and on the Internet do not buy more tickets.
Were affected for hours and travel information and display systems at the stations, making it nation led to delays in rail traffic.
Technicians were working feverishly to rectify the problem, such as informing the train. To 18 clock succeeded then boot up the computer, at least partly. Once worked in the early evening, at least the display system, a railway spokesperson.
This should help to normalize the train running again quickly. But only in the late evening hours, the system worked again largely normal.
Nevertheless: On some machines, where no card was able to pull the passengers were able to cash a ticket. And the conductors due to forego the usual charge, if a passenger wanted to solve his card on the train.
Additional chaos in Cologne caused a fallen tree. After felling the tree was in between the stations of Cologne Ehrenfeld and Lövenich fallen on the overhead line, had to be interrupted in the afternoon the train to Aachen.
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