The train plays a special role
Thursday and Friday Germany experienced heavy snow and temperatures down to minus 18 degrees Celsius.
The weather was the first item on the main ARD evening news yesterday.
Yes, motorways got a mention, as did a number of fatal road accidents on non-motorway roads but what got the most attention was the news that Deutsche Bahn German Rail had come to a standstill in some regions across the country.
So did the plight of the homeless and in that bulletin we were told there are 50,000 homeless people across the country.
The prestige DB icon, Germany’s ICEs, stopped dead on tracks, at stations. Even many of their heated points had been beaten down by the snow and railway workers were out with simple shovels trying to free the frozen snow-covered points.
It is expected Germany’s trains will be back rolling today.
Germany can breathe again.
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