According to the NS still takes some time for the train rides again according to the timetable.
Only on the route Den Dolder Bam drive according to NS even buses. This will take the rest of the day.
There were Saturdays ” thick layers of ice ” on the overhead lines, allowing trains had no power and therefore could not drive. The trains were around 11.00 again started from the west.
More sleet
The trains were much more affected by the winter conditions than initially expected. Friday it was announced that the timetable would be adjusted in the southeast of the country, but Saturday turned sleet nationwide strike on the track.
The NS says the situation does not have to be underestimated. “Unfortunately the weather is capricious,” a spokeswoman said in the Radio 1 News .
In the whole country fell Saturday many trains out. And from Amsterdam, Alkmaar, Utrecht and Amersfoort reason no trains at all.
Code Orange
The whole country was Saturday morning until 10:00 code orange for extreme weather. KNMI has the warning around 12:00 revoked for all provinces.
The code yellow alert remains in force throughout the country, because there are still remnants of snow lying on the road. This can still be treacherous. On the islands is no weather warning more and expected the warning in the west during the afternoon also canceled.
In the east and southeast in the afternoon sleet or snow possible in west are overcast and it is dry, says the KNMI. This afternoon the nationwide cloudy and there may be mainly in the northern half of the country a few showers from sea irruption.
The weather institute warns that Saturday evening and night especially in the east still a chance of smoothness through remnants of snow and freezing of wet sections
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Accidents
The smoothness is Saturday morning for about 150 skids and collisions care on the road. Especially in the north and west many accidents have happened due to slippery by ice, reports the VerkeersInformatieDienst VID.
In a few short files after, there are no major problems with more road traffic, according to the information service.
Since 4.00 am arrived at the service nearly 150 reports of accidents on main roads. This ranged from injury to view damage, but it was more one-sided accidents caused by skidding.
To combat the smoothness Rijkswaterstaat to Saturday 11.30am 9.7 million pounds of salt sprinkled on the highways. Still scattered there, a spokeswoman said. The preventive straw began Friday evening, as sleet and snow was predicted
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