calculated On the total year 2018, the 3500 corresponds to long-distance trains that do not leave in the first place. A new passenger record, the track creates anyway.

In the case of the Deutsche Bahn have failed in the past year, an average of ten long-distance trains of the day – and without replacement. The company said on Tuesday. This number corresponds to about 1400 ICE, IC and EC daily, and a failure rate of 0.7 percent. Throughout the year to track information about 3500 long-distance trains, which is not set off from the planned starting station.

Earlier, it was reported the train already, that in 2018 in the long-distance transport, about two percent of all the holding stations are not achieved. In the statistics of those trains were, for example, only a part of the planned route. The reason for the failures, often, technical failures, or blocked routes were to the storms.

rail creates record sales, but it also wants to invest heavily

at the same time-saving prices and 19-Euro Tickets for the Deutsche Bahn, a new passenger record in long-distance transport brings. The Newspapers of the Funke media group reports. The company had surpassed its own record with a value of 142 million travelers from the previous year accordingly. Also, the turnover in people is remote increased traffic by almost 300 million euros to about 4.5 billion euros. Your total balance for 2018, Deutsche Bahn presents until March.

in Order to be in the future, reliable and punctual, wants to invest in the railway in the coming years, massively. This year alone, the group plans to recruit 22 000 employees, especially people for mission-critical occupations, such as drivers, dispatchers and maintenance personnel. At the same time, the railway plans to expand its rail network and the operation of trains on important routes to be better organised. This includes the routes Dortmund – Köln, Würzburg – Nuremberg and the Region around Hamburg.