After a two-week signal box malfunction, the railway wants to resume normal train services between Düsseldorf and Wuppertal on Thursday. Apart from short breaks, no city or regional trains have operated on the route in the last 14 days.
The signal box is operating smoothly again and normal operations can begin, a railway spokesman told WDR in the evening. Operations are scheduled to resume on Thursday morning at 5am and all lines affected by the signal box fault should be operational again.
Many spare buses are still in use.
This means that lines S9, S28, RE13 and RE49 can finally operate again after two weeks of cancellation, and train services from Hagen via Wuppertal to Düsseldorf or from Wuppertal via Velbert to Essen can again operate as normal.
RE4 (Dortmund-Wuppertal-Düsseldorf) and S8 (Hagen-Wuppertal-Düsseldorf) have already been put back into service.
However, there are still many spare buses in use in Wuppertal. Only S-Bahn tracks between Wuppertal and Düsseldorf and Wuppertal and Essen will be released.
The partially parallel route from Cologne via Wuppertal to Hagen will be closed for major repairs until July 10.
Sources:
- DPA news agency
- zuginfo.NRW
- Deutsche Bahn representative
Broadcast: WDR.deThe Wuppertal signal box is working again, 07/01/202619:22
