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Due to a public transport strike in the Netherlands there will be no service tomorrow May 28th, 2019. The only service there will be is a 4 time an hour stopping service from Amsterdam Centraal to Schiphol and final destination Hoofddorp and v.v.. This was put on by a courtcase brought in front...

Due to a homeless person setting fire in the morning near a signalbox railway services are disrupted in Belgium. Also tomorrow. Especially Brussel Noord to Brussel Zuid and v.v. was hit. And more chaos all around Brussel. Many services did not run. 2 articles in Dutch about the disruption in...

1 person was killed on a graveyard for trains in Nijmegen, Netherlands in an explosion. They try sell those trains (or even have) it to Romania. Source: Transportonline

Rudolf de Boer has made a summary (and is the source) of bikelanes in Europe. It can not say that the UK is doing worse.

Also this year on the last day of March 2019. Below you see the book that opens traindoors. You get it when you buy books of more than (around) 12.50 euro.

I am not so sure if someone has this already posted, but since June 2018 the departure rule in Belgium has changed. The guard on the train closes all doors of the train 30 seconds before the advertized departure time. Even the door of the guard.

Today there is very very limited bus and train travel possible in Belgium due to a strike. How it affects Thalys and Eurostar i do not know. There is no airtravel from Belgium airport. All this untill 22 hours tonight.

In our first 3 country train from Aachen - Maastricht - Liege 3 languages are used. But the train stops/starts in Maastricht, because of problems with the Belgiums who want to use a security system needed in 3 to 5 years time.

There is news about 6 deaths in Denmark this morning. A freighttrain lost something of its load, because of high winds. Apparently it came on the track of the passengertrain. The line is blocked between western Denmark and Copenhagen.

I just want to say (without opening a new thread) that DB has limited the payment of Sparpreis, online and maybe other tickets. Paypal and debt collection is not possible anymore, because of fraud. In german (source Die Zeit)...

Source: https://www.railwaygazette.com/news/single-view/view/uk-railway-news-round-up-84.html

On September 18, 2018 there will be special train departing Amsterdam Centraal 9.27 and it will run nonstop to Bad Bentheim arriving at 11.16. After change of locomotive it will continue to Berlin. This is done, because of the Innotrans in the capitol of Germany. Distance is about 180...

Yesterday problems began with the shuttle trains having no airco. Problems that became a waiting game of at least 5 hours on both sides if you wanted to go. Some reservations for certain ticket have been cancelled on Friday (today). It seems that the Eurostar is not affected.

Finally after years and years of waiting the North South line will open on July 22. It will travel from the north of Amsterdam to Amsterdam Centraal (trainstation) to Amsterdam Zuid. Additional stationsstops will be Noorderpark, Rokin, Vijzelgracht, De Pijp en Europaplein. They are thinking...

Yesterday and today there is a strike on the regional services (so NS is running) on the train and all busses in the Netherlands except in the 4 main cities of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag and Rotterdam. This week is May holiday so the impact could be worse if it was a holiday. Next actions are...

At 6.22 on March 28, 2018 a new station and extra passengertracks will come into service in the Netherlands. The line from Groningen to Roodeschool (dutch joke: where are the communist raised? Red school) will be extended to Eemshaven. Therefore the station of Roodeschool has been moved a little...

Since the timetable change the new connection between Hengelo (Netherlands) and Bielefeld (Germany). Approval for running on Dutch tracks was coming in late. Trains end at the borderstation of Bad Bentheim. There is a bus between Bad Bentheim and Hengelo via Oldenzaal for almost 3 months. But...

Source: DB Open Data

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-41801760

I hope he is using a headset. He was sitting in the train for 2 hours. Source in German: https://www.waz.de/panorama/gamer-zockt-mit-riesen-fernseher-ungeniert-in-der-s-bahn-id212180991.html