Dutch railway company NS has announced that it will carry out the biggest overhaul of its services in 10 years in December. The entire rail timetable has been changed and almost all passengers will be affected. The new timetable comes into effect on 11 December.
“The changes are necessary because we expect to move an extra 20,000 travellers a day in the coming years. We had to design the service all over again because the previous timetable did not give us the leeway,” spokeswoman Lisa Neves Gonçalves said.
Some trips will involve shorter journeys and the links between cities have been improved. Among the main changes: the number of intercity trains between Almere and Schiphol will be doubled from two to four an hour and there will be fewer stops on the Arnhem to Nijmegen intercity services. Intercity trains between the Hague and Eindhoven will use the high-speed rail line to cut travel times.
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