The Anonymous Widower

What Is The Dutch For In It Up To Your Neck?

We have had problems with trains including the wrong kind of snow, but the Dutch with their new high speed trains called Fyra seem to have got the wr0ng kind of everything, like politicians, strategy and trains. It’s all described here on a Dutch web site. This is the introduction.

The problems with the Fyra high-speed train service from Amsterdam to Brussels are as much to do with politicians as with the train manufacturer and railway operators, according to the main Dutch railway union chief.

Roel Berghuis of union FNV Spoor says the problems with the Fyra service go ‘well beyond the teething problems when a new train is brought in’.

So don’t knock Network Rail and the train operating companies too much, as it might happen here.

January 22, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Fyra, The Netherlands, Trains