After winter storm “Elli”: rail visitors stays restricted | EUROtoday

As of: January 11, 2026 9:56 a.m

According to Deutsche Bahn, the principle long-distance rail routes are actually getting used once more – however there are nonetheless issues on many routes within the north. According to meteorologists, the subsequent “severe weather situation” threatens on Monday night time.

After the winter storm “Elli”, the railway continues to wrestle with issues, particularly within the north. Long-distance visitors has began once more on “all main routes” – however with diminished providers, and cancellations are nonetheless attainable, the railway introduced this morning.

Since this morning, trains have been working once more on the routes from Hamburg in the direction of southern Germany, from Berlin in the direction of North Rhine-Westphalia and from Hamburg to Berlin – however not but once more with the scheduled service, it was stated. The most permissible velocity on the high-speed route between Frankfurt and Cologne has additionally been diminished.

According to the railway, providers to Denmark and the Netherlands in addition to to the coasts will even start from noon and all through the day.

There are even larger restrictions in native transport in Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony: a number of routes can’t be used there. “We only expect the timetable to be gradually increased over the course of the day after the clearing work has been carried out,” stated the railway. The railway cited snow drifts on tracks that had already been cleared in addition to frozen and blocked switches as the reason for the issues.

Slippery threatens

Today’s Sunday is predicted to be clear to cloudy and sometimes sunny and dry, particularly within the northeast and west.

But based on the DWD, snow may flip into rain as early as Monday night time, which might freeze on the chilly floor and result in black ice. “This means that after a short break the next severe weather situation will arise. On Monday, the freezing rain will spread to large parts of the country,” stated DWD meteorologist Thore Hansen.