How Alstom's inability to deliver trains on schedule, and Danish incompetence, will break an important regional train connection (and how to fix it)

As if Denmark - Germany long distance international connections were not already bad enough thanks to the Talgo saga, now the regional train connections between the two countries are getting worse as well.There will be rail replacement buses at least throughout the whole of 2027 between Flensburg and Padborg at the border - DSB confirms this here (see "Ændringer, når du rejser internationalt" - I cannot link directly to it).But the problem starts this time not with Talgo, but with another deficient manufacturer: Alstom, and specifically the Alstom works at Salzgitter in Germany. Because nothing ordered from that works is delivered on schedule at present.And then comes normal Danish railway incompetence on top.It goes like this.Danish railways, having been rocked by the IC4 AnsaldoBreda scandal, decided to finally do things properly: electrify Denmark's main lines, upgrade the signalling on these lines (to ETCS), and order electric trains to replace the unreliable IC4 diesels.Two…