There is hardly a company in Germany that has more customer contacts around the clock than Deutsche Bahn.

The transport group moves eight million people every day.

Every day, 23,500 trains travel from one of the 5,300 stations to the next on the 33,400 kilometer track network.

And that according to a timetable clocked exactly to the minute.

A plan that is being adhered to less and less in terms of time, but at least locally.

That's why it's not news when a train is delayed.

But if a train driver simply skips a stop, the excitement is great.

Thiemo Heeg

Editor in Business.

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Like last Monday.

Every evening, ICE 947 departs at 7:27 p.m. from platform five of Cologne Central Station and arrives at platform two of Berlin Central Station at 12:20 a.m.;

it is the last ICE of the day from the Rhine to the Spree.

Not everyone wants to go to Berlin.

At least the train has scheduled Wolfsburg station for 11:04 p.m. as a stop in the timetable.

The railway has not yet explained why the engine driver in the ICE 947 simply drove through on Monday.

The incident is still being examined internally, it said.

So you have to rely on speculation.

Did the train driver just want to get off work quickly?

No - Deutsche Bahn trusts in the sense of duty of its employees and so do we.

Did he want to make up for a delay?

That would be dutiful towards the majority of people traveling to Berlin, but not towards the people of Wolfsburg.

(And expensive for the DB, especially since they were allowed to take taxis back.)

So there is only one thing left: DB simply wanted to show VW who will be in charge of traffic in the future.

The headquarters of the Volkswagen Group, Europe's largest automobile manufacturer, is located in Wolfsburg.

Wolfsburg is

the

Autostadt in Germany, and the car is known to be the great competitor of the railway.

Is there anything against putting a little needle prick and leaving Wolfsburg on the side?

The event on Monday evening is at least not an isolated case.

In recent years, it has happened several times that trains simply drove through Wolfsburg without making the intended stop.

The next step would be to remove the VW city entirely from the timetable.

But then you are probably not that progressive in the Bahntower.