Breda station seems to be a magnet for railway traffic failures, in Bergen op Zoom no pain at all

EINDHOVEN – For people who visit Station Breda regularly, it will not be new, but still. At this station, travelers had to deal with 231 disruptions in the last six months. Only at Rotterdam Central Station it was more often drones: 280 times. Even at railway stations Schiphol (170) and Utrecht Central (160), rail traffic was less frequent than in Breda

. LocalFocus calculated this traffic based on all known train failures. This number seems to be higher than suggested by ProRail last week, according to the data analysis bureau. The railway manager reported a few days ago that trains are running more than in the past according to schedule. "Never before have trains in the Netherlands been working so often at the moment," according to ProRail

. Rijdendetreinen.nl figures
According to LocalFocus, there is more disruption, probably because more trains are used. The data on which the analysis is based come from Rijdendetreinen.nl. This is a site that collects the number of train failures, as communicated by the Dutch Railways. Disturbances on routes from other carriers, such as the Meuse Line from Arriva, are also included.

A total of 365,000 disturbance minutes were recorded, equivalent to 254 full days during which trains could not operate within the normal hours. This is not necessarily the time that travelers had to wait (and boring) to get through.

The causes of misery
Return to Breda and other railway stations where rail traffic the first six months of this year remain motionless. What was the culprit in most cases nationwide? Well, almost eight hundred times (788 to be exact) the cause of the block was faulty trains. In a few minutes, this meant 41,400, although the average traveler did experience it much longer.

Signal and switching failures were a good second with 409 reports and more than 43 days. Collisions with one person resulted in a disruption of rail traffic in 124 cases. It cost travelers 21,200 minutes or fifteen days. A little less often (103 cases or 3.4 days) the deployment of emergency services led to the blockage

'Go to Bergen op Zoom & # 39;
Breda was the most "disordered" station in our province. At Lage Zwaluwe, 115 times the signal was red from January to June of this year. In Den Bosch, he went wrong 94 times; at Eindhoven 89 times and at Tilburg 77.

If you want to be assured of a (almost) unlimited train journey: go to Bergen op Zoom. Here, rail traffic during the first six months of this year was only ten times calm and no other station in Brabant could touch.