Overhead line failure

‘German disruption causes major financial losses for rail freight’

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Rail freight in Germany was severely disrupted after an overhead line failure in the evening hours of 31 March. Traffic was said to have started again in the late afternoon of 1 April. Operations were down for less than a day, but that was enough to cause major financial losses.

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