Additional spitstreinen drive failure or delay in the – Metronieuws.nl

The spitstreinen, trains that additional should be used during rush hour, to drive often with delay or even not at all. The trains are often deleted to defective vehicles on other routes to replace it. That report treinreiziger.nl as a result of research into figures of railway infrastructure manager ProRail. Treinreiziger.nl looked at all the treinseries both the punctuality as the uitvalcijfers. Reizigersorganisatie Rover will find the conclusions unacceptable.

Failure

Thus fell, in 2016, a whopping 8.8% of the spitstreinen Leiden – Gouda. Also the spitspendels between Vlaardingen and Rotterdam are frequently (7.7%) and, like the spitstreinen Rotterdam – Gouda Goverwelle (6%). The spitstrein Veenendaal – Breukelen, the netherlands have since the new timetable (december 11) even a failure of 11.5%. Also in other transporters, the so-called spitstoevoegers often give up. So the Arriva Spitstrein Zwolle – Coevorden, a failure of 5.1%. The spitstrein Veenendaal – Breukelen, the netherlands has, for example, since the new service will be a loss of 11.5 percent. The worst domestic train in 2016 is the spitstrein Amsterdam – Enkhuizen, the netherlands. Thereof fell 4.2 percent, and of the intercity trains that do reason had a third at least a 3 minute delay. Last year preikte the intercity direct – the direct train connection between Amsterdam and Breda, the netherlands – still at the top, this line is now in second place.

Punctuality

This has little consequences for the punctuality of the NS, as it turns out. On the contrary: they proved it last year actually increased, the company reported Tuesday. In 2016 91,3 percent of the passengers on time – with less than a five-minute delay – arrived at destination. In 2015, the rate was 91 percent. The final figures are in the annual report for 2017 announced. NS in these percentages, not the number of failed trains.

Extra

The spitstreinen drive on some of the routes between 06.30 and 09.00 hours and in the afternoon between 16.00 and 18.30 hours, to overcrowded trains. Incidentally, the failure of the additional spitstreinen not that there are no or fewer trains during the rush hour: the NS put the trains in as an extra and these are also the first to be deleted if the vehicles somewhere else.