Rail network changes for 2015 announced
10 years, 6 months ago

Rail network changes for 2015 announced

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Dutch rail maintenance company ProRail is announcing some changes to the rail network in The Netherlands planned for 2015. The Dutch rail system is planned to improve with several large projects and some reorganizations, De Telegraaf reports. On Monday, ProRail announced that there will be new train schedules, dividing 3.3 million train trips over 23 transporters. The new Den Haag Centraal station will finally be finished by the end of this year, and there will also be new stations at Nijmegen Goffert and Barneveld Zuid.

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Severe rail disruptions in Randstad due to track failures, particularly around Amsterdam
1 week, 2 days ago

Severe rail disruptions in Randstad due to track failures, particularly around Amsterdam

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Rail services across multiple routes in the Randstad faced severe disruptions Sunday due to “multiple track failures,” according to Nederlandse Spoorwegen. A spokesperson said the disruptions are particularly affecting travel around Amsterdam. The track failures come on top of previously scheduled rail maintenance work in the Randstad, including reduced service between Amsterdam Centraal and Hoofddorp, as well as between Schiphol …

Rail works: Two weeks of train disruptions on The Hague-Rotterdam route
1 week, 6 days ago

Rail works: Two weeks of train disruptions on The Hague-Rotterdam route

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People traveling by train between The Hague and Rotterdam can expect disruptions to the train service for over two weeks. ProRail will work on the track between the Delft Campus and Rotterdam Central Station from March 12 to 27. The day after, Rotterdam CS will be accessible by train again, but there will be far fewer trains until 6:00 p.m. …

Railway management company ProRail warns travelers to expect significant delays in 2025
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Railway management company ProRail warns travelers to expect significant delays in 2025

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People traveling by train should be prepared for many delays and hindrances due to construction on the tracks this year. This is due to staff shortages and a lack of materials, said the railway management company ProRail. The company announced last year that railway passengers will have to deal with delays and hindrances caused by construction until 2030, because a …

ProRail boss warns that train disruptions will continue for years
3 months, 1 week ago

ProRail boss warns that train disruptions will continue for years

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Train passengers will continue to experience inconvenience due to track work for years to come, ProRail CEO John Voppen. Projects are taking longer because the government railway management company wants trains to continue to run during the construction. “But we will also have to improve productivity by investing in digitalization and robotization.” Speeds of 120 kilometers per hour can be …

Trains resume service after week of disruptions around Groningen
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Trains resume service after week of disruptions around Groningen

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Train service between Groningen and Groningen Europapark resumed on Friday afternoon at 4:19 p.m., following several days of disruptions caused by significant damage to the tracks. The disruptions began during routine maintenance work on a new cycling tunnel at the Esperantokruising, near the Groningen Europapark station. “The damage caused by the severe weather and the construction activities was substantial, but …

Wednesday rail strike will seriously impact many more Dutch cities than just Amsterdam
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4 months, 1 week ago

Wednesday rail strike will seriously impact many more Dutch cities than just Amsterdam

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The consequences of the strike at ProRail traffic control posts in Amsterdam and Alkmaar on Wednesday morning will be even greater than NS previously reported. The carrier announced on Tuesday that the “impact area” has been expanded and that fewer trains will also run between Utrecht Centraal and the central stations in both Eindhoven and Arnhem. On Monday, the national …

More disruptions ahead for Dutch rail passengers this year, warns ProRail
11 months, 1 week ago

More disruptions ahead for Dutch rail passengers this year, warns ProRail

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Dutch train travelers should be prepared for more disruptions on the tracks, said ProRail on Thursday. According to ProRail CEO John Voppen, most of the rail networks date from just after the Second World War and need urgent maintenance. An important cause of railroad disruptions on are temporary speed restrictions that come into effect when problems are found along the …

Cracked bridges limit train services between A'dam and R'dam
1 year, 1 month ago

Cracked bridges limit train services between A'dam and R'dam

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ProRail has cut the number of high speed intercity trains between Amsterdam and Rotterdam to two an hour instead of the usual four because of track safety concerns. Intercity trains will have to reduce their speed to 120 kph, and in one place to 80 kph and international services will be slower, leading to timetable cuts, ProRail said. “We had …

Cracked bridges limit train services between A'dam and R'dam
1 year, 1 month ago

Cracked bridges limit train services between A'dam and R'dam

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ProRail has cut the number of high speed intercity trains between Amsterdam and Rotterdam to two an hour instead of the usual four because of track safety concerns. Intercity trains will have to reduce their speed to 120 kph, and in one place to 80 kph and international services will be slower, leading to timetable cuts, ProRail said. “We had …

About 450 major train disruptions in 2022, says ProRail
2 years, 2 months ago

About 450 major train disruptions in 2022, says ProRail

NL Times  

Last year there were about 450 major disruptions on the Dutch railroad system. These were largely caused by collisions, signal failures, switch failures, stormy weather, computer failures and broken catenary systems, a spokesperson for ProRail confirmed after initial reporting by the Telegraaf. Last year, there were eighteen days on which more than 10 percent of all rail journeys were cancelled. …

Maintenance, work to cause train woes this summer
2 years, 8 months ago

Maintenance, work to cause train woes this summer

NL Times  

Train travelers can expect a lot of delays this summer. ProRail has a great deal of maintenance and other work scheduled for the tracks, with most expected to cause extra travel time of 30 minutes or more. For example, ProRail will work on the track between Amsterdam Zuid and Lelystad Central Station from this Friday to Monday. And on Sunday, …

Dutch railway must change to cope with increasing extreme weather
4 years ago

Dutch railway must change to cope with increasing extreme weather

NL Times  

Climate change is bringing more extreme heat, gale force winds, heavy downpours and other extreme weather, and the Dutch railways is not resistant to this. "The railway was constructed for a moderate climate with less heavy train traffic," ProRail's climate expert Stefan Jak explained to the newspaper. According to the newspaper, ProRail expects that at least a hundred locations will …

Plans to make Eindhoven international railway hub
4 years, 6 months ago

Plans to make Eindhoven international railway hub

NL Times  

Plans are in the works to turn Eindhoven into a major international railway hub, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done for these plans to become reality, a spokesperson for rail operator ProRail said to ANP after reports in De Telegraaf. As such Eindhoven is already an essential part of the national rail network, …

NS to speed up trains from Amsterdam to Berlin, Brussels
4 years, 6 months ago

NS to speed up trains from Amsterdam to Berlin, Brussels

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Dutch national railway service NS is working on plans to cut train travel time between Amsterdam and Berlin and from Amsterdam to Brussels by about 30 minutes each. In a 2018 petition, around 6,500 passengers called on the Dutch government and the NS to create a four-hour high speed train route from Amsterdam to Berlin. Slashing travel time to Brussels …

Coronavirus decimates train travel but there will be more services next year
4 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus decimates train travel but there will be more services next year

Dutch News  

Despite the fall in the number of travellers caused by the coronavirus crisis, Dutch rail infrastructure company ProRail is expecting an increase in the number of services in 2021. Next year railway companies plan to add nearly 2,800 more services – for both goods and passenger trains – taking the total up to 2,172,187. ‘These new services have to be …

More trains to run on new railways timetable
5 years, 7 months ago

More trains to run on new railways timetable

NL Times  

After months of puzzling and work, ProRail announced its new train timetable for 2020. According to the rail manager, a new planning system means that the space on the track can be used even more efficiently next year, NOS reports. The 2020 timetable also has extra long freight trains. The new timetable can accommodate freight trains of up to 740 …

ProRail must make rail works more customer-friendly: travelers' association
5 years, 7 months ago

ProRail must make rail works more customer-friendly: travelers' association

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Travelers association Rover wants rail manager ProRail and rail company NS to do more to make sure customers are inconvenienced as little as possible during rail works and breakdowns. Rover came up with these suggestions after analyzing complaints received from travelers during large-scale rail works around Leiden in April. "Travelers have good understanding for maintenance, as long as they know …

ProRail pushes €3.5 billion into modernizing train stations
5 years, 11 months ago

ProRail pushes €3.5 billion into modernizing train stations

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Rail manager ProRail is going to invest 3.5 billion euros into building more train stations and renewing and modernizing existing ones over the next 10 years, ProRail CEO Pier Eringa announced with the rail manager's annual figures on Wednesday, NU.nl reports. According to ProRail, there is room for about 20 new train stations, but they will only be built after …

ProRail fears capacity problems if railways aren't renovated
5 years, 11 months ago

ProRail fears capacity problems if railways aren't renovated

NL Times  

The Dutch railways will need substantial renovations in the coming years, otherwise it won't be able to handle the expected 40 percent passenger growth after 2030, ProRail warns. "We will still go a long way until 2030, because we can still grow a little bit on busy routes", Klaas Hofstra, head of design at ProRail, said to the newspaper. "At …

Automated trains could make 30 hourly trips between Amsterdam and Schiphol
5 years, 11 months ago

Automated trains could make 30 hourly trips between Amsterdam and Schiphol

NL Times  

ProRail wants to run automated light rail trains between Schiphol and Amsterdam with extreme high frequencies - 30 times per hour. ProRail director Pier Eringa believes that these automated trains, which he compares to a city rail line like the S-Bahn in Berlin, will be needed to accommodate the increase in passengers between the Netherlands' capital and its main airport, …

ProRail, NS want to run trains every 7.5 minutes
6 years, 3 months ago

ProRail, NS want to run trains every 7.5 minutes

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ProRail, NS and other stakeholders believe that the railway timetable can be further increased to cope with passenger growth in the coming years. In a joint exploration of the future, they've established that with a few smart adjustments on the so-called high frequency network, they can run trains every 7.5 minutes, NU.nl reports. The route between Amsterdam and Eindhoven already …

Longer trains to run between Schiphol, Nijmegen by end 2019
6 years, 4 months ago

Longer trains to run between Schiphol, Nijmegen by end 2019

NL Times  

ProRail is accelerating the plan to run longer trains between Amsterdam and Nijmegen to implement it in the autumn of 2019, three years earlier than initially planned. Rail manager ProRail is accelerating the planned adaptions at the Gelderland station at the request of State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven of Infrastructure and the province of Gelderland. By using longer trains on …

Dutch railways basically full, ProRail says
6 years, 7 months ago

Dutch railways basically full, ProRail says

NL Times  

The Dutch rail network, which spans over 7,300 kilometers, is basically full, according to ProRail. But there is little point to building new railway lines, as there is almost no more room for them, the rail manager said when presenting the rail capacity distribution for 2019, ANP reports. Next year ProRail expects that trains will travel 165 million kilometers in …

ProRail invests billions in railway renewal
6 years, 9 months ago

ProRail invests billions in railway renewal

NL Times  

The number of train passengers in the Netherlands is expected to grow by 45 percent in the coming decade, according to ProRail. The rail manager is therefore investing at least 20 billion euros into rail renewal, so that it can cope with the passenger increase, ProRail CEO Pier Eringa said to the Telegraaf. "With this we can facilitate a large …

Train schedule largely back to normal after massive storm
7 years, 2 months ago

Train schedule largely back to normal after massive storm

NL Times  

After a massive storm did large amounts of damage to the Dutch railways on Thursday, NS and ProRail expect that trains will mostly run according to schedule on Friday. Repair work is still being done on some routes and there may be some last minute changes to the train schedule today. No trains are running between Schiphol Airport and Leiden …

ProRail to start testing self-driving trains next year
7 years, 2 months ago

ProRail to start testing self-driving trains next year

NL Times  

Rail manager ProRail will start experimenting with self-driving trains on several routes next year. The freight trains tests will be done in cooperation with Alstom, a company that is developing a system for automatic train operation. The rail manager is testing an automatic train operation system which has four levels, in which level 1 is only slightly automated and level …

Railway break up did not boost productivity, cut costs, says report
11 years, 8 months ago

Railway break up did not boost productivity, cut costs, says report

Dutch News  

The separation of the Dutch railway company NS into a passenger services arm and track operator has not made rail travel cheaper as hoped, according to researchers at Delft’s University of Technology. In particular, the cost of a kilometre of rail travel actually rose in the first 10 years after the company was broken up in 1995, the researchers say. …

Railway break up did not boost productivity, cut costs, says report
11 years, 8 months ago

Railway break up did not boost productivity, cut costs, says report

Dutch News  

The separation of the Dutch railway company NS into a passenger services arm and track operator has not made rail travel cheaper as hoped, according to researchers at Delft’s University of Technology. In particular, the cost of a kilometre of rail travel actually rose in the first 10 years after the company was broken up in 1995, the researchers say. …

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