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Rail travelers on the Berlin-Hanover route have to allow for 50 to 70 minutes delay after the collision of two locomotives in Wolfsburg - probably also over Easter.
Long-distance trains will be diverted and stop in Braunschweig instead of Wolfsburg, as a rail spokeswoman said on Thursday.
The railway expects that the rescue work and the delays of their long-distance trains will last all Thursday.
Trains were also delayed in regional and local transport on Thursday.
The ENNO trains ran between Wolfsburg and Hildesheim with a delay of around 20 minutes.
On Wednesday evening, a locomotive collided with the locomotive of a freight train at Fallersleben station in Wolfsburg, as a spokesman for the federal police said.
No one was injured.
It is assumed that the recovery of the locomotives will take until after Easter.
It must also be determined who or what caused the accident.
A criminal investigation has been initiated, said the spokesman.
The federal police assume that the recovery of the locomotives will take until after Easter
Source: dpa / Moritz Frankenberg
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Deutsche Bahn, responsible for the clean-up work, did not make a specific forecast on Thursday about the duration of the line closure.
In the evening, a railway spokeswoman announced that one of the three diesel locomotives was back on the tracks and that the line in the direction of Braunschweig was single-track.
But: A stop in Wolfsburg is still not possible.
Some trains run again via Wolfsburg - without stopping there - and via Braunschweig, others are still diverted via Magdeburg.
ICE and IC connections are affected.
For example, individual ICE trains Hamburg-Hanover-Berlin are diverted and do not stop in Berlin-Spandau.
The diversion delay is around 70 minutes.
IC trains Berlin-Wolfsburg-Hanover-Bad Bentheim-Amsterdam are canceled between Berlin and Hanover.
The IC connection Stralsund / Ostseebad Binz-Berlin-Hanover-Hamm (W) -Dortmund-Cologne is canceled completely.
The cause of the accident is still unclear
The federal police are expecting a high six-figure damage amount.
Whether a technical defect or a human error was the cause of the accident is determined.
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The accident occurred between two coupled electric locomotives and a freight train, as it was said.
They drove in parallel until one of the locomotives rammed into the side of the freight train's locomotive.
A switch was probably set incorrectly, said the federal police spokesman.
One locomotive derailed after the collision, the other remained crooked on the rails.
The clean-up work is time-consuming.
The vehicles would have to be lifted and recovered with a special crane that had to be brought on rails.
“No local fire brigade can do that,” said the federal police spokesman.
To rescue the locomotives, the overhead lines would also have to be moved aside and the electricity switched off.