Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from a German train after a knifeman threatened staff on the journey from Cologne to Berlin. Germany’s national railway Deutsche Bahn stopped and evacuated ...

A woman has been left in critical condition after a male assailant set her on fire in a vicious attack on a German tram. The unnamed man, 46, reportedly doused the woman with a flammable liquid ...

A police officer stands on the platform in front of an ICE train in Elze, after around 450 people had to leave the train in the district of Hildesheim because of a suspicious envelope. Carsten ...

The train was stuck at Sueschendorf, 25 kms (16 miles) away from the north German town of Dannenberg. Activists were also chained to other stretches of track along the route and further delays to ...

Police said no other people were hurt in the incident in the eastern city of Gera, German news agency dpa reported. Passengers stopped the tram by pressing an emergency button, and the assailant ...

A fare-dodging passenger on a German high-speed train ended up clinging to the outside when it pulled out of the station before he was ready to get on, police say. The 40-year-old man had boarded ...

Just 39 per cent of German long-distance trains arrived with a delay of less than 60 seconds. Britain’s worst-performing train operator, Avanti West Coast, met this service level 41 per cent of ...

In just three weeks and after just three rounds of negotiations, Deutsche Bahn (DB), the German train company, and the German rail union Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsgewerkschaft (EVG) have concluded a ...