The Netherlands concludes: railway cannot cope with extreme weather

The Dutch rail infrastructure cannot cope with extreme winter weather. It will require billions of euros to keep the rail infrastructure available under all circumstances, such as extreme heat in the summer, or winter weather such as which occurred in February this year. The infrastructure manager ProRail and railway undertaking NS concluded this in a joint winter evaluation.

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Author: Majorie van Leijen

Majorie van Leijen is editor of RailFreight.com, the online magazine for rail freight professionals.

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