In the coming year, the current Intercity trains on the High Speed ​​Line will be replaced by the new Intercity trains of the New Generation. Today is finally the day, the new Intercity New Generation (ICNG) of the Dutch Railways is running for the first time today. As of today, the NS will test how the new train performs in practice

The ICNG has now been officially approved and a new final phase of the test program can now be started. There are 99 ICNG trains in the works for the Dutch Railways. These are the newest fast intercity trains with a total of 33.000 seats, made by the French train manufacturer Alstom. The train

NS currently has 1100 vacancies in total. It almost sounds ironic, but to travel with NS and to be sure that the train does not stop due to a lack of staff, it is better to drive the train yourself. And that may be possible because NS will travel with a train simulator in the coming weeks

The festive presentation of the Intercity New Generation train (ICNG) to the public would have been last weekend, but was canceled due to the recently tightened corona measures of the cabinet. The presentation of this beautiful new speed train that would actually take place at Rotterdam Central has been postponed to a later date

NS's plan to travel from Breda and Rotterdam on the HSL and via Amsterdam-Zuid to the north and east of the Netherlands in 2023 will be postponed by at least one year. This is stated in a letter to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. The reason for this is that part of