Deutsche Bahn (DB) is expecting a massive impact on Munich S-Bahn traffic due to the announced strike by the German Locomotive Drivers’ Union (GDL). Passengers should expect the first disruptions from Tuesday evening at 11 p.m. These are expected to last until the night from Friday to Saturday.
As with the GDL’s previous warning strikes, the railway wants to run at least once an hour on all S-Bahn lines. However, the S8 to the airport is currently running Construction work with rail replacement transport. The DB is replacing overhead lines there until January 22nd. This time the airport will therefore only be accessible via the S1. Current information is available in the Munich Navigator app or on www.s-bahn-muenchen.de/aktuell available, says the DB.
There should also be an emergency timetable with a greatly reduced offer for long-distance transport. The DB uses longer trains with more seats for these journeys, but the DB says that the ride cannot be guaranteed. A significantly reduced offer is to be operated in regional transport. The extent to which this will be possible varies greatly from region to region. In any case, there will also be massive restrictions on regional transport.
The Westbahn company has announced that trains to Vienna via Rosenheim will run as scheduled.
The GDL has called on its members to stop work across Germany from Wednesday morning at 2 a.m. until Friday evening at 6 p.m. The GDL wants to paralyze train traffic for several days at a time in this tariff round for the first time. Deutsche Bahn announced on Sunday evening that it would submit an urgent application to the labor court in Frankfurt am Main against the strike. She considers the strike to be “superfluous” and “not legally permissible.”
The railway responded to the union on Friday with a new offer, which also took into account the core demand for a reduction in working hours to 35 hours. The GDL called the offer insubstantial and accused the railway of not using the Christmas truce to counter strikes with a negotiable offer.