A bicycle star makes its way through the snow in Nijverdal. In parts of the country was warned for slipperiness. Photo Reuters / Vincent Jannink
After major problems this morning by the winter weather, the trains around 11:00 start driving again. NS reports that the train service “will be phased in from the Randstad”. The expectation is that again this afternoon trains on all lines.
The NS warns that even “some time” will take for all trains in regular service drive. ProRail hopes around 14.00 runs everything, “but perhaps not quite in accordance with the timetable,” a spokesman told Reuters news agency. In the northeast of the country is still in force around 11:00 restrictions by the wintry conditions.
The morning train service ran into problems because “thick layers of ice” on the catenary layers, allowing trains had no power and could not drive, said the spokesman of ProRail. The trains were much more affected by the winter conditions than initially expected. Yesterday it was announced that the timetable would be adjusted in the southeast of the country, but this morning turned into sleet store across the country on track to. Around Amsterdam, Alkmaar and Utrecht was at times not at all rail traffic as possible.
By the smoothness happened there last night and this morning many accidents on the roads. Around 10:00 this morning reported the Traffic Department that a hundred accidents had occurred. In the messages got the vid went to injury and gaze damage. To combat the smoothness Rijkswaterstaat scattered around 6 million pounds of salt on the highways.
The KNMI ended in the course of the morning in the provinces of North Holland, South Holland and Zeeland code orange for extreme weather. Today applies in these provinces still code yellow, because there are still remnants of snow, said a spokeswoman at the ANP. In the east of the country is still code orange because of snowfall. By sleet and snow is possible until the end of the morning treacherously slippery.
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