Germans night in train by sleet

emden - More than six hundred passengers spent the night of Sunday to Monday in Germany spent in a train. They stopped in the middle between the meadows, because the overhead was frozen. Eventually the train left until Monday morning, 22 hours late.

Most of the passengers had spent the Christmas holiday at Norderney, a German island in the Wadden Sea. Their train had to leave Sunday morning from Norddeich Mole, where their ferry arrived. However, because of the cold, the train left three hours later than planned. Shortly after leaving the stranded train already. Only on Sunday was a locomotive train conveyed to a small station. The Red Cross caught the passengers, including thirty children with food and blankets.

Because of the ice did not bus companies and taxi services come to the station to pick up the passengers. Therefore, the train returned to the station of departure. Travelers had to sleep in the passenger saloon and in the departure hall at the ferry port.