NS will run 169 extra carriages across its network from next month, to handle the surge in passenger numbers that arrives every September.
The peak is driven mainly by students returning to lectures, on top of commuters coming back from summer leave. Both groups hit the same trains at the same hours.
What It Means On The Platform
The extra carriages mean longer trains rather than more of them, so the timetable itself is the place to look for changes rather than the departure boards.
September is reliably the busiest month of the Dutch rail year, and the first weeks back are when crowding on the Amsterdam approaches is at its worst.
NS has said it also has enough staff in place for the period, which has not always been true in recent years.
This article is based on the railway’s own announcement as reported on Monday. We have not independently seen the route-by-route breakdown of where the extra carriages will run.
