By truly working with passengers within the timetable, NS checks how the prepare performs in observe. Based mostly on this, producer Alstom can remedy teething issues and implement additional enhancements, NS mentioned.
President-director Wouter Koolmees: “The ICNG is a superb asset to our fleet and can supply vacationers extra seats and extra consolation sooner or later. We’re proud that this prepare made its debut at Amsterdam Central early on Wednesday. Will every little thing go nicely instantly? In all probability not. What we do know for certain is that the ICNG will earn its place within the Dutch panorama sooner or later and can symbolize all the nice that the Netherlands has to supply by prepare. That may be a sustainable, comfy and quick journey between Dutch areas and past.”
NS warns that the prepare isn’t instantly good. “The introduction of a brand new prepare is a prolonged strategy of about seven years. A brand new prepare isn’t technically good instantly and everybody has to get used to it. For vacationers, but in addition for NS colleagues who work with the prepare. That’s the reason the latter is check part with passengers within the timetable can be so essential. You solely actually know the way issues are going if you begin driving in actual life. You must take into consideration that new trains additionally undergo from teething issues. That’s a part of it. As a result of we begin with one new Intercity on one route, we are able to decrease the affect for vacationers,” studies Program Supervisor Maarten Bakker.
Second ICNG
If these journeys with one prepare go satisfactorily, NS will add a second ICNG to the timetable within the coming weeks. As soon as all present Intercity trains have been changed, they may also be capable to journey at a most velocity of 200 kilometers per hour from that second on.
The Amsterdam – Schiphol – Rotterdam route is adopted by The Hague – Eindhoven, Amsterdam – Brussels, Amsterdam – Groningen/Leeuwarden and Amsterdam – Enschede routes.
All 99 ICNGs – good for 33,000 seats – can journey at 200 km/h, however that velocity will solely be reached on the Excessive-Pace Line. On the principle rail community, the prepare travels at a most velocity of 160 km/h.
Amended
The ICNG was constructed by the French prepare producer Alstom and based mostly on the Coradia mannequin. Greater than 2400 trains of this prepare kind are already in operation in a number of international locations, together with Germany, Sweden, France and Italy. The prepare has been tailored particularly for NS for the Dutch railway system, in order that it’s appropriate for the high-speed line and the common monitor. 20 ICNGs are additionally being made appropriate for deployment to Belgium.
