Regional train is stranded in Berg am Laim: 200 passengers evacuated!

Regional train is stranded in Berg am Laim: 200 passengers evacuated!

It is a good Tuesday in Munich and yet an incident keeps the city in suspense. On June 10, 2025 at around 12 noon, there was a leader damage in Berg am Laim, which forced a regional train on the way to Kufstein. Around 200 passengers were on board at this point and had to prepare for unforeseen circumstances. The trainee of the train had significant problems due to the damage, so that passengers could not simply continue.

The emergency manager of the Deutsche Bahn were not only used for the alarm, but also the Bavarian regional, the federal police, the Munich police headquarters and the fire brigade. Together they quickly got the critical situation under control. The passengers were evacuated via ladders that were attached to the train to safely bring the passengers to the nearby Hermann Weinhauser-Straße. The stressed travelers had to climb over the railway tracks, which tenses the situation again. In order to make it easier to return to the city, a nearby tram stop was also pointed out so that passengers could continue to travel as quickly as possible, while the railway line between the Munich Ostbahnhof and Grafing was closed. [StadtMagazin-Muenchen24] reports that a replacement of rails was also set up to ensure the mobility of passengers.

disorders in train traffic

The effects of the incident were far -reaching. Several regional trains that were traveling towards Salzburg and Kufstein failed. Long -distance trains also had to deal with delays of up to 20 minutes because they were diverted via the tracks of the freight station. This was quite annoying for many travelers, not least because the original destination now had to consider driving options [tz].

The cause of the overhead line damage was initially unclear; Nevertheless, Deutsche Bahn announced that the necessary repairs should probably be completed in the evening. In public there are already critical voices about the emergency management of Deutsche Bahn. Again and again it is criticized that there are difficulties in evacuations and that sometimes an unorganized procedure is demonstrated. In a current case, the emergency manager was often only at the scene after more than 30 minutes, although this should not actually be the state of affairs [Merkur].

How often such an incident occurs shows an interesting statistics: around 39,000 trains per day have to be evacuated around 1.56 - just under 47 - trains per month on the freely route. As a rule, rescue workers must be on site quickly. However, the evacuation times are often long and also problems with ventilation during the standstill of the train could lead to dangerous conditions that are not in the focus of the public.

If you look at the experience of the last incidents, there is definitely air upwards in emergency management. It is to be hoped that Deutsche Bahn takes the reviews seriously and is working on a better organization in order to avoid such emergencies in the future. Parents with small children, older travelers or passengers with health problems are often particularly sensitive to such situations - there is definitely still a lot of potential for improvements.