(in a philomena cunk voice) in germany, most passengers already expect their train to be cancelled. hence why, when the train is actually not cancelled, the displays will show a warning that the train is actually in service.
@ptrc now we're testing our fancy British woman impressions with the gang
@ptrc I apparently did quite good
@ptrc one of those memorable voices.
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And DO NOT BOARD the train arriving from the gloomy forest (Finsterwalde)!!!!!

@ptrc As someone who, in about a week's time, will require to take a train in Germany to get to another city to get to an airport...

This is causing me cold sweats O_O

@nanianmichaels to be fair, as long as you have some buffer for delays ( 30-60 minutes ) then you should be fine :p
@ptrc @nanianmichaels Most of the time at least. A couple of months ago I had an important appointment, so I wanted to be sure and planned the trip with a buffer of two hours. The problem was that there was a spontaneous outage on the way there, which lasted the whole day and made it impossible to continue my journey. Lucky me I guess! :P
@flamecat
That is... Not very reassuring 😱
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@ptrc It's also possible a train is just passing through, not having a planned stop.
@pvdrijst if it was not clear, the post is a joke and germans don't need a special warning to let them know trains are, in fact, running
@ptrc They are running but not as "pünktlich" as 20 years ago. And if a goods-train is running along the platform a warning is welcome.
@ptrc The German is actually saying "train traffic", which makes more sense.
Bad translation by German Rail.