An intermodal train coming from the Rotterdam harbour at the Betuweroute on his way to Germany and possible further to Italy. To the left the A15 motorway. Almost the whole line of 160 km follows ... (more)
Kombiverkehr E 189 202 with an intermodal from Duisburg and Dortmund to Rotterdam Maasvlakte at the Betuweroute.
HSA 186 119 underway from Amsterdam to Brussel. The sign on its side says 'NS Hispeed congratulates NMBS with 175 years railways in Belgium'.
Thalys from Amsterdam Centraal to Paris Nord rushes with 300 km/h through Lage Zwaluwe.
Captrain, what the merger is of SNCF Fret, ITL, Veolia Cargo and Rail4Chem, passes at the Betuweroute with a containertrain to Melnik (Czech Republic).
Oops, that was close! Railion 6455+6426+6515 hauling an iron-oretrain from Rotterdam Maasvlakte to Dillingen (D). At Venlo, they will be replaced by 2x151 from Railion Germany.
Two (clean!) 189's with a containertrain at the Betuweroute. The black surface in the foreground is an asphalt platform for placing maintenancemachines on the tracks.
A lot of cutting has been done recently at Dordrecht Zuid so these pollards are free now and give a new view at the tracks.
The E 186 111-186 122 are ment for HSL-Zuid but as long as it is not open they are used for the Beneluxtrains Amsterdam-Brussels v.v..
The old 2552 is running to belgium
Thalis 4538 runs High speed service from Amsterdam to Paris. On its trip it will cross three different powersytems 1.5Kv DC in the Netherlands, 3Kv DC in Belgium, and 25Kv AC in Belgium and France