nltrainer
Traveller
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Posted 11 years ago
After snow+ice hit them last week and parts came loose, the Belgians banned them for running on rails.
So there are now NO FYRA hi-speed trains between Amsterdam-Brussel. Cancelled for at least 3 monthes.
NS/HiSp (lospeed for hi-cost-the usual association for trains) and B-rail are working on alternatives.
This thus means that any of the timetables listed here are again to be revised.
THALYS trains (VERY expensive for IR-users due to huge supplmts-hicost is reigning!) still run.
nltrainer
Traveller
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there are for the time being additional FAST trainsd ANTwerpen-Roosendaal,-these are on ns.nl and b-rail, but (as of 24 hrs ago ) NOT yet on bahn.de
FROM Antw-Centraal: 38 past the EVEN hours- from 6.38 till 20.38-=takes 30 mins and connect Roosendaal with NS IC trein to Amsterdam-via Rotterdam, den Haag-Schiphol
FROm Roosendaal: 13 past ODD hours- 7.13 to 21.13
These trains are ''free'' for IR-passholders.
To go-without any suplmt and without any REServ. to go Brussel-AMSterdam you thus have to change 2 times, always Antwerpen and Roosendaal, with legs BRU-Ant 2/4 trains/hr and Rodl-Ams ev 30 mins (trein to VLissingen coming back from NL).
The middle-age old stock local trains Antwerpen_Roosendaal stopping at every local expensive villa still run hourly and most reprots say they are very overcrowded at busy times.
nltrainer
Traveller
1405 comments
Further updfate: from 18/3 the more or less old way will be reinstated- but limited to 8 trains BRUssel (mo-fr only)-Antwerpen(daily)-Roosendaal-Rotterdam-Den Haag, presumably in the times of the withdrawn FYRA between BRU-ANT and then simple counting on/back. As the old beNeLux; free for IR-holders, no reservation possible-just come and stand if too full.