Long-term incident Grafing train station: Thrills in the breakdown elevator
Created: 07/26/2022, 17:58
By: Josef Ametsbichler
Out of service again on Tuesday: The breakdown elevator on platform 1 in Grafing station.
© Stefan Rossmann
The elevator on platform 1 in Grafing train station: People keep getting stuck there because the technology is on strike.
The train has apparently come to terms with the anger.
Grafing-Bahnhof – If you are looking for a thrill, if you want to give your luck a chance, if you want to feel your own heartbeat between your ears, you don't need to pay for a parachute jump or a lottery ticket.
No, excitement and risk are completely free on platform 1 in Grafing station: the elevator there is notorious for getting stuck - to the annoyance of commuters, the city and the fire brigade.
Whoever gets on there runs a certain residual risk of not catching their train, knows Nettelkofen's fire brigade commander Georg Gar. "The chance of getting stuck is definitely greater than winning the lottery," he teases.
Much larger.
His fire service had come three times in the past six weeks to free people from the elevator.
The fire chief reports that this usually refuses to work shortly before arrival on the ground floor, so the exit is already in sight.
"Then there's nothing again for half a year," he says about the unpredictability of the failures.
The fact that there is a breakdown lift waiting for Grafinger Bahn customers on platform 1 is not even denied by the railways.
Mayor Christian Bauer has known the problem for a long time
Bad luck for people with limited mobility: not a single elevator worked on Tuesday.
© bahnhof.de
There, "in the recent past, there have actually been increased disruptions," admits a railway spokesman.
"However, people only have to be freed in exceptional cases." That sounds like good news, but it also means that the fire brigade operations are apparently only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to elevator malfunctions in Grafing station.
"We've had this problem for years," says Grafing's mayor Christian Bauer (CSU).
Despite all the complaints, nothing has improved, even though Grafing-Bahnhof is one of the largest commuter car parks around Munich.
There are also problems like this elsewhere.
"Service desert Bahn!", Bauer annoys and adds: "Accessibility: far from it!" After all, the railway now dutifully pays for the rescue operations of the fire brigade.
"Cheaper for you than your own service provider," suspects the mayor.
Several causes for defects
The volunteers of the Nettelkofen fire brigade have to pay for it.
"If there are people in there, what do you want to do?" says Commander Gar. Then his rescuers just come back with the tool box and somehow try to get the doors open.
Last week they freed three people in the sweltering summer heat, including a woman with a baby in a pram, EZ learned on site.
To be on the safe side, the rescue service is also called in for such operations.
Not so long ago, a man in his 50s was stuck for a few hours because he had waited for Deutsche Bahn customer service instead of dialing the emergency number, says Gar. "The elevators at companies all have to work," he marvels.
"I also don't understand what the technology is doing there."
The railway, in turn, says: "Due to the increasing number of faults, we are currently paying more attention to the system." For example, the shaft doors have been replaced.
There are many possible causes.
Such as those of a "technical nature", but also caused by "improper use".
Recently, for example, "liquid spread out inside the cabin" caused defects in the electronics - the railway does not go into detail about how unappetizing this liquid was.
With EZ research: None of the three elevators work
Train station elevators are places where no one voluntarily stays long.
But there are enough people who depend on them because of restricted mobility.
Deutsche Bahn advises you to find out live online about the elevator status and, if necessary, to change trains elsewhere.
When the
EZ
calls the corresponding portal "bahnhof.de" on Tuesday, the elevator on platform 1 is out of order again.
What's more: Of the three systems on the tracks in Grafing station, not a single one works.
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