BERLIN, June 17 — Fans complained of lengthy travel disruptions and crowded trains following England and Serbia’s Euro 2024 game in Gelsenkirchen yesterday, which drew tens of...
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Crowds waited for available carriages to carry them from the crowded station near Arena AufSchalke stadium until well into the night, according to the “Game finished just before 11pm. 3 hours to travel by tram and train to Dusseldorf, which is less than 50 miles. Astonishingly bad,” one fan wrote on the X social media platform.Local police said the fans’ departure had been “largely orderly”, but acknowledged bottlenecks at some stations due to the large number of visitors.
Gelsenkirchen is flanked by the larger urban centres of Cologne, Dortmund and Dusseldorf. Many international fans stayed in those cities, putting pressure on the national rail operator Deutsche Bahn to get them there and back.Deutsche Bahn said it and various local operators had worked to increase train capacity, including a special line running between Gelsenkirchen and nearby cities.
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