Train hits cinderblock on rails

Train traffic between Assen and Zwolle was disrupted this morning when a train ran into a cinderblock that lay on the tracks near Beilen.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"27886","attributes":{"class":"media-image alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-19776","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"150","height":"150","alt":"download"}}]]No one was injured during the incident that happened around 8.15am. Railway company NS suspects that someone deliberately placed the concrete cinderblock on the rails. The company had filed a police report, a spokesman said.

Traffic was held up for a while, but about an hour later one track was reopened.

It is the second time in a year that vandals target train traffic in the Netherlands. In January passengers on a train on the Hanze-route narrowly escaped injury when a pipe that was laid on the tracks near Lelystad gored the floor of the wagon they were sitting in.