The primary practice from Vienna to Düsseldorf, the temper is nice, the anticipation for the night’s first group match of the ÖFB workforce at EURO 2024 is large. And all of a sudden all the pieces is prepared. Get off.
As a result of the railway line between Passau and Regensburg needed to be closed, “100 Austrian soccer followers”, as media stories put it, have been all of a sudden unable to get previous the principle practice station in Passau. Neither the passengers nor Deutsche Bahn had the consequences of the closure on their radar. There have been too few buses ready on the station sq. to take the ÖFB followers to the connecting practice to Regensburg in time.
Higher Austrians chartered non-public bus
A gaggle from Higher Austria additionally set off from Sankt Valentin to Düsseldorf at 7:01 a.m. After the chaos in Passau, the place they waited in useless for a substitute practice service between 8:37 a.m. and 11:40 a.m., they determined to privately constitution a coach from Nuremberg. “Alleged arrival time: 7:20 p.m. in Düsseldorf on the principal station. Will they make it to kick-off? No thought,” writes OÖN reader Andreas F., whose son is a part of this journey group.
Deutsche Bahn apologized
“A substitute bus service is at present in place. Deutsche Bahn can also be at present directing passengers through Munich and Salzburg and has requested ÖBB to do the identical. Deutsche Bahn plans to renew scheduled practice providers when operations start on June 18, 2024. Deutsche Bahn is working onerous to finish the development website and expressly apologizes to the affected passengers and particularly to soccer followers from Austria,” mentioned an announcement from Deutsche Bahn to merkur.de.
Will there be a contented ending for the Austrian followers? It’s going to in all probability be an in depth name. “We will certainly drive to Berlin by automobile on Friday, although now we have already purchased practice tickets,” says Andreas F. On Friday, the ÖFB workforce will play towards Poland in Berlin.
