Within the 2023 timetable, NS will run longer trains, particularly throughout busy weekends. This may add 85,000 seats at weekends, about 10 % extra. On working days, 13,000 seats will probably be added, with 4.5 % extra seats throughout rush hours. In whole, vacationers can depend on a mean of three % extra seats than is presently the case.
Please notice: that is in comparison with now. However in comparison with the unique 2022 timetable, which began in December 2021, there is no such thing as a enhance in seats. Because the spring, nonetheless, many prepare collection have been canceled as a result of monumental scarcity of drivers and conductors. Most cut-outs will probably be continued within the new timetable.
Nonetheless, issues will change subsequent week, no matter using the longer trains: for instance, the Intercity Direct will not run to Breda. Vacationers from the Brabant metropolis can due to this fact solely journey on to Schiphol and Amsterdam with the IC Brussels, which runs as soon as an hour. They’ve to vary trains in Rotterdam for the remainder of the hour.
However, an Intercity will run each ten minutes between Amsterdam and Eindhoven. On the opposite so-called ETMET routes (Each Ten Minutes A Practice), reminiscent of Rotterdam – The Hague – Schiphol and Schiphol – Utrecht – Arnhem, the timetable stays thinned out and an Intercity due to this fact runs each quarter-hour as an alternative of each ten minutes.
Different adjustments in comparison with this week embody that just one Sprinter per hour will run in North Brabant at weekends and within the evenings, as an alternative of two, and that the variety of Intercity Direct trains between Rotterdam and Amsterdam will enhance. at weekends and evenings after 8 pm (as an alternative of after 10 pm) from 5 to a few per hour.
