Construction work
Sylt will not be accessible by car train for three days from Tuesday
The Sylt shuttle near Klanxbüll on the way to the North Sea island. photo
© Axel Heimken/dpa
If you want to take the train to Sylt next week, you will have to allow more time. The car trains don’t run at all on three days.
Due to construction work in Westerland Sylt will not run any car trains between the mainland and the island for three days next week. The Syltshuttle of Deutsche Bahn will be affected all day from Tuesday (March 12th) to Thursday (March 14th), the Syltshuttle announced on its website. “Please take these three days of total loss into account when planning your trip.”
The blue car train from competitor RDC Deutschland also announced that no car trains could drive to Sylt. Travelers with vehicles can still take the ferry to Sylt via Denmark.
Replacement rail service from Morsum
In addition, the regional trains run from Monday 11 p.m. to Friday 4 a.m. only to or from Morsum and will be replaced by buses to/from Westerland, as Deutsche Bahn announced.
The background is the modernization of the marsh railway line from Hamburg to Sylt. After the investment offensive for the renovation of the marsh railway was completed in December 2023, the final work on modernizing the signal box technology is underway, as Deutsche Bahn announced. The electronic signal box (ESTW) at Westerland station is scheduled to go into operation next week. The old signal boxes in Niebüll and Tönning are also being replaced by electronic signal box technology.