Tech & Science Bahn starts construction work on platforms on Wangerooge
digitization in freight traffic should recording
In digitization of freight traffic Europe has come a little further this Wednesday. From Berlin Westhafen a test freight train made its way through Germany, Austria and Switzerland - fully equipped with the digital automatic clutch (DAK). © Fabian Sommer / DPA Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP, L-R) with Daniela Gerd Tom Markotten and Sigrid Nikutta from the DB board before the test ride of a freight train with digital automatic clutch.
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for a barrier-free approach to the island track, Deutsche Bahn builds the train stations on the East Frisian island Wangerooge. The construction started this week and are expected to be completed until the beginning of June, as the Group announced on Thursday in Hamburg. Both on the island station in the middle of the village as well as in the west of the island, where a new platform should arise. For guests traveling to the island about the Easter Days, according to the train through the construction works other roads. The train operates the island lift and also the ferry traffic between Wangerooge and Harlesiel on the mainland.

Easter vacationers push the coast: Start of the season .
with the start of the holidays in many federal states, including North Rhine-Westphalia, many easter holidayers traveled to the coast on the weekend and traveled to the islands. The ferry companies had set themselves on many guests and therefore partly planned additional ferry connections - yet the rush was so great that about the ferry terminal for the ferries to Langeoog in Bensersiel was formed on Saturday long snakes.