Germany ? Protesters who suspended themselves from a rope across railroad tracks Sunday temporarily stopped a train carrying reprocessed nuclear waste in Germany.

The activists from the environmental organization Robin Wood stretched the rope between trees on either side of the tracks about several miles from the train’s destination in the northern city of Dannenberg. Two activists, supported by two more in the trees, then climbed across the rope and chained themselves to it, dangling over the tracks.

The group called it a “symbolic action,” and police were able to quickly clear the way for the train to proceed. It was carrying reprocessed nuclear waste to a German storage facility from France.

The protest was one of many small demonstrations along the route that slowed the train, which left late Friday from the French town of Valognes.

After reaching Dannenberg in the afternoon, the waste containers were loaded onto trucks to be driven to nearby Gorleben for storage. The trucks were scheduled to arrive today.