Still no trains to Groningen Europapark, other issues as NS recovers from storm Cornall

Train traffic between Groningen Central Station and Groningen Europapark is still impossible on Thursday after new subsidence of the track and storm Conall interrupted repair works. NS also reported several other train traffic disruptions caused by broken tracks and overhead lines, likely due to the storm.

Last weekend, parts of the track between Groningen and Groningen Europapark subsided during road works on the ring road around Groningen. ProRail has been working on repairing the track all week and NS hoped to resume train traffic at 7:00 a.m. on Thursday, but that proved impossible.

There were unforeseen problems during the repairs, a ProRail spokesperson told NOS, speaking about “a new sinkhole” and “extremely bad weather” hampering the work. “A huge amount of rain fell in Groningen,” the spokesperson said. “Partly due to storm Conall, even more sand has subsided.” It is not yet clear when train traffic will resume.

NS also reported that no trains were running between Groningen and Bad Nieuweschans and Groningen and Veendam due to broken tracks. The rail company hopes this issue to be resolved by Friday morning and is running buses on the routes in the meantime.

Broken tracks are also causing issues between Utrecht and Driebergen-Zeist. Fewer trains are running on this route until at least 4:00 p.m. The issue is also impacting train traffic between Arnhem and Nijmegen and between Amsterdam Zuid and Utrecht Centraal.

And broken overhead lines are disrupting train traffic between Amersfoort Central Station and Putten and between Utrecht Central Station and Amersfoort Central Station. NS hopes to have these lines fixed by 11:15 a.m. “Very limited” buses are running on the first route, and fewer intercities are running on the second.