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As of today, NS launched a trial with discounted E-tickets (NS Voordeel) for the Intercity service between The Hague Central and Eindhoven Central to attract new customers post-COVID and to test the willingness of passengers to pre-book their ticket. During this trial discounts varying from 0 to...

Due to the COVID related travel restrictions NS got an exemption for serving Brussel Zuid (for passengers embarking in Amsterdam and Rotterdam) with the Amsterdam Eurostar service in March 2021, providing they'd evaluate the effects in the autumn of last year. The evaluation concluded that...

As of the timetable change this weekend, the SGM stock of NS will retire. The trainsets, also named "Sprinter" due to their fast acceleration compared to the other stock that was around when they came in service between 1975 and 1983, mostly operated on suburban routes in the Randstad area. In...

A bus driver in Utrecht, the Netherlands became unwell this afternoon while driving down from the bridge between Leidsche Rijn station and the city center. As a result, the bus failed to turn right following the bus lane but instead continued straight ahead and drove all the way to the top of a...

In the recent weeks more and more often the shortage of signallers at ProRail has disrupted the train traffic in the Netherlands. According to ProRail there are 60 vacancies at the moment, leading to signallers having to return early from holidays, being unable to take days off, or being unable...

Just hours after a press release was issued about it's arrival, the very first hydrogen powered bus of Arriva Netherlands caught fire after an accident in the workshop in their Doetinchem depot. The bus was completely destroyed in the fire, as well as the workshop itself and another diesel...

Intercity 146 Berlin-Amsterdam which crossed the border with a 20 minute delay was mistaken for the RB61 (which usually arrives about 20 minutes after the IC) by the controller in charge of Hengelo station this afternoon. Thus, the incoming train was sent to platform 11 instead of 2. And that...

As of December 12th, the new open-access Nightjet service between Amsterdam and Zürich will start. Preparations are currently on the way: a test train ran today and tickets will be for sale as of mid-October. Other than the current Nightjet from Amsterdam to Vienna/Innsbruck, the new Zürich...

For next Wednesday the 22nd of September the guards on the Intercity services between Amsterdam and Brussels have announced a 24 hour strike. The strike only applies to the Dutch guards (as some trains have Belgian staff) and is only affecting the Intercity services, Thalys and Eurostar should...

For the second time this year the GSMR system in The Netherlands has failed, thus no communication between drivers and traffic controllers is possible. As a result nearly all trains in the entire country are cancelled and being evacuated! Article by NOS (in Dutch)...

As it's becoming very likely that the current COVID-guidelines in The Netherlands will allow for an audience during the Dutch GP, NS has now published its special timetable for the Dutch GP weekend from 3-5 september. Travelling by car to Zandvoort is severely discouraged this weekend, so as an...

Very unusual images from the very south of the Dutch province of Limburg are appearing, where extremely heavy rainfall has caused flooding of multiple railway lines (which is an almost non-existent calamity here). Train traffic between Sittard and Maastricht has been stopped due to a flooding...

Arriva has filed an application with the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) to run three open-access services within The Netherlands. More at: Arriva applies for open-access night services in the Netherlands | International Railway Journal (railjournal.com) Their request is to be...

A tram on its way from Utrecht Central station to Utrecht Science Park derailed in a spectacular way this morning after it collided with a delivery van of supermarket chain Jumbo at a level crossing. While derailing the tram overturned a mast of the overhead lines and ended completely blocking...

As a result of the impact of restrictions due to COVID-19, building, testing and approving the ICNG trainsets for NS by Alstom is suffering from delays. Travel restrictions, quarantine and supply chain problems are delaying production and additional a derailment in Germany has interrupted the...

The plans to reduce the number of available tracks at Amsterdam Central to 9 are definitely going ahead, as the final plans for this station have been published in the "Staatscourant" today. These plans involve reducing the number of through tracks at Amsterdam Central, to create space for...

Today NS announced it will start with refurbishment of the VIRM-2/3 trainsets, which are the four- and six-car double-decker trainsets delivered between 2003 and 2005. The refurbishment of these double-decker trains will be similar to the recently completed refurbishment of VIRM-1 (built from...

An NS-Sprinter class SNG (CAF Civity) collided with a tractor and trailer combination on an unguarded level crossing providing access to a farmers land near Hooghalen (NL) this afternoon. Of the approximately 50 passengers which were on this Sprinter from Zwolle to Groningen several were...