If you were planning on travelling south from Rotterdam today, you’re going to have to wait until tomorrow.
Update: Services have resumed sooner than expected, with Nu.nl reporting that train services through the tunnel have resumed.
Due to a malfunction that occurred on Friday evening, trains are still unable to travel through the Willemsspoortunnel.
As a result of the outage, trains were unable to travel between Rotterdam Centraal and Rotterdam Zuid for the entire weekend.
This morning, power was restored to the tunnel, and according to Rijnmond, trains ran briefly. However, ProRail is still testing the safety systems, and traffic has come to a standstill once again.
According to Nu.nl, the NS expects that trains won’t be running again until 2 AM on Tuesday.
And what does this mean for today? A lot of train chaos for commuters.
What routes are affected?
As a result, there will be no trains running between Rotterdam Centraal and Breda and Rotterdam Centraal and Dordrecht today, Monday, July 14.
If you are meant to travel from Rotterdam Centraal to Dordrecht, you can instead take a bus to Rotterdam Zuid, where trains are still running to Dordrecht.
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Travelling internationally? Then things are going to get a bit complicated.
- The Eurostar from Paris to London will be diverted to Utrecht Centraal and ‘s-Hertogenbosch
- EuroCity and EuroCity Direct services to Brussels will depart from Breda instead of Rotterdam (And yep, you will have to make your own way to Breda).
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