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There is construction work ongoing between Hamburg and Hannover during that period, which also affects Hamburg - Bremen as that route is partially used for diverted trains from Hamburg to Hannover. More details at: https://karte.bahn.de/en/detail/670e7517-fb15-4c1e-aa20-19408415867a (which...

Not necessarily. The way they explained it to the public is that they'll make short trains slightly longer and long trains slightly shorter. Actually those very short trains are generally the most miserable ones as they cannot cope with sudden increases in demand (for example due to nice...

You should be able to see at least some of the tulip fields from the high speed line as Nieuw Vennep (where it merges with the Leiden - Schiphol line) is still within the area where flower bulb cultivation takes place. Though most of the colorful fields are found around the Leiden - Haarlem line.

It depends on the full mix of available tickets. As I wrote earlier scanning QR codes is common practice in the Netherlands nowadays, but I never experienced it made dwell times longer. But the amount of people actually using those QR e-tickets is also limited due to easily accessible...

When Keolis Netherlands still had their own app, it used to display a numerical code and a certain colour which drivers used to check validity. Nowadays it's all QR codes which you have to scan at the validator however.

In addition to that: in the past it was not really practical to divert Eurostar to London via Gouda as that would have lead to the security cleared part being at the wrong side in Rotterdam and Brussels (from Watergraafsmeer yard it needs to reverse in Amsterdam to go via Gouda). Not sure if...

Via Leiden (and then Haarlem or Schiphol) is only used occasionally when the HSL is closed. No reversing needed to run via Gouda by the way, but that route is rarely used.

The derailment happened at this intersection where line 9 should continue straight ahead, but instead turned left at high speed according to this dashcam-video: https://www.nu.nl/324408/video/dashcam-legt-moment-vast-dat-tram-ontspoort-in-milaan.html

They can't run through anyway as the local lines aren't electrified. For rolling stock transfers (for example when Meppel - Leeuwarden would be closed) it is possible to have NS rolling stock being pulled by a diesel locomotive use the local line to get to Leeuwarden as there is a...

Couldn't find it via the English version of the website, but with some clicking around I arrived at this page in Italian where you can filter construction works by data and by region. Looking for the region Veneto I couldn't find any works on your route yet. In the respective weekend there only...

Correct. Subscriptions are already possible on the OVpas at least at GVB, Arriva and Qbuzz. U-OV is expected to enable this as of May (though they already have OVpay subscriptions). The usage instructions on the OV fiets actually already mention to use your OVpas or OV-chipkaart so these are...

April is still a month away, so plenty of time to sort things out. As first step, you'll need to order a personal OV-chipkaart. Should it be shipped to the UK then you'll probably need to call customer service of OV chipkaart as it is not in the standard order from, but should you have somewhere...

Amsterdam Zuid indeed is not much further from the city centre than Centraal is, depending on your destination of course. It is relevant for trains coming from the HSL Zuid as Amsterdam Centraal has connections to Haarlem and North Holland which Amsterdam Zuid doesn't have. And for those...

At which station? There should be poles on the platform to tap out and in (marked with a white cube labeled "overstappen") ovoiding the need to go to the underpass. Though it may happen that a regional train is changed to a platform not having them, although that's relatively rare.

There's also a restriction on some stations for the advance PrijsTijdDeal tickets in the Netherlands, for example you can't buy them to Schiphol Airport. However they are sold for trips to Hoofddorp or Amsterdam Zuid, so you could buy a ticket for a longer trip which ends up being cheaper than a...

Very dependent of the operator in the Netherlands however. Both Transdev and Qbuzz have had card readers that, with the introduction of OVpay, became so slow that buying a ticket with cash almost was faster. But these have now been replaced. The card readers used by Keolis tend to sometimes...

In the Netherlands it was a countrywide decision to only allow card payment on buses due to some cases of drivers being robbed, that transition occured with little resistance. Though in some regions the operators were required to offer paper tickets from one of their offices for people without...

That's a good general guideline, but to add to that: in some cases this is allowed when it shortens journey time. There's an easy way to find out those cases, as the official rule nowadays is that any journey suggested by the journey planner (without using via-options) is allowed.

For Utrecht it's most useful to stay on the metro till Rotterdam Alexander as this results in one change less. The answers given to your other questions by other users are correct: metro and train are charged separately. And for this journey all stations have gates so impossible to forget to...

Technically an OV-pas is as anonymous as an anonymous OV-chipkaart: there's no photo or name on it (a personal text is available however). You personalise an OV-pas just like a bank-/creditcard: by registering it in the app and uploading a photo. Getting an OV-pas will however be much easier in...