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Train traffic in New York comes slowly back on track after the power outage this morning. On all routes in North Holland ride again and intercity and sprinters, albeit in limited numbers. At Schiphol airport, everything properly again.
Especially on the route between Amsterdam Centraal and Schiphol runs the resumption of train traffic difficult. Drive there no or very limited trains. On routes between Amsterdam and Utrecht and Amsterdam and Lelystad / Zwolle drive again limited trains. Earlier in the day, said a spokesman for the NS that normal service will be today unrecoverable.
“This might take a while. We have to wait until the power supply is stable, that is in order to start-up. You can imagine what happens when you’re ten minutes and the flow flips out. Liander and Tennet are hard at work to restore power. There we are dependent. We will the rest of the day, still suffer from; on target drive is no longer succeed. “
When the power supply is stable, also because it takes is one more time before the system repaired, said the spokesman.
“It is a complex set of systems that is fiendishly difficult. We put all usable buses, but that is not enough, when you consider that one goes intercity twenty buses. “
It is about the trains between Amsterdam Central, Alkmaar, Almere, Enkhuizen, Hilversum and Utrecht. Travelers are advised to take the subway between Sloterdijk and Amsterdam Zuid or between Bijlmer ArenA and Amsterdam Centraal.
How is it elsewhere?
- Homepage let the airport now back in full swing. Anyone who would leave tonight, will actually take off. Travelers should nevertheless take account of delay. Around midnight, everything would have to walk back on schedule, said a spokesman. It is still unclear how many flights are delayed or canceled because of the failure.
- Liander has had three hours ago that the power failure was “resolved”. So there are no households without power and traffic lights, elevators and other facilities to work. Public transport runs now again. Police Amsterdam extra police had deployed at intersections because the lights were turned out, and shopping malls, to prevent looting – not some doors were closed.
- The hospitals are again transferred to the “regular program”, after this morning went to the emergency and only ongoing operations have been completed.
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Research on power failure
According to TenneT was the power outage caused by a particular set of circumstances. When the high-voltage substation in Diemen would the system, which of two separate ‘halves’ which consists in the case of an emergency can normally take over each other, are coupled at the time of the fault. Therefore all fell. According to TenneT, the link is a common procedure and fell after accidentally timed interference to everything automatically to prevent more components would be broken.
Ard van der Steur Minister of Security and Justice (VVD) allows research do to the power outage this morning in North Holland and Flevoland. He said after the cabinet meeting this afternoon.
Van der Steur qualified fault as “unprecedented.” He wants to “avoid that happening again.”
Since mid 4 have all affected households in North Holland and Flevoland weather flow, reports Liander that controls the power level at home. The power failure was one of the greatest that has seen our country, Grid Netherlands opposes news agency ANP. The exact size is not yet known.
“But we can say with certainty that the failure of Friday in the top three.”
Big trouble in North Holland and Flevoland
This morning around quarter to ten was a fault in the power station in Diemen, making North Holland and Flevoland share of electricity supply to sit. Around eleven o’clock the power came back on track. The fault had consequences for public utilities: Train and air traffic was flat, there arose traffic jams, traffic lights were not working
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