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Suspicious package found at Lelystad provincial house; area on lock-down

Oct 22 '18 07:44

A suspicious package was found at the provincial house on Visarenddreef in Lelystad on Monday morning. The police closed down the area around the building, including part of the nearby train station. Multiple banners with slogans about nature reserve Oostvaardersplassen were also found hanging on the provincial house, a spokesperson for the Midden Nederland police said to NU.nl.

The police are allowing pedestrians into the train station, but motorists are being stopped, according to Omroep Flevoland.

Hans Jansen playing the piano at Zwolle Station, 29 March 2018

Hobby musician plays piano at 16 Dutch train stations in one day

May 22 '18 16:00

Entertainment

Hans Jansen aims to play piano at each of the 16 pianos in Dutch train stations on Tuesday. He started in Maastricht at 5:00 a.m., and if all goes well, will end in Leeuwarden at 11:20 p.m. "I hope that today, 22 May, will be proclaimed the Day of the Station Piano", he said to broadcaster NOS.

Jansen has been playing piano as a hobby for some time now. His idea for this record attempt came to him after a video of him playing a cover of Wicked Games at the Zwolle train station went viral.

Rapid-growing Eindhoven Airport urgently needs a train station: Politicians

Apr 21 '17 18:30

Business

The Brabant faction of political party CDA joined the call for a intercity train station at the rapidly growing Eindhoven Airport. According to the party, the train station would not only improve accessibility to the airport, but also to the larger region around it, Omroep Brabant reports.

Berlin attack suspect Anis Amri spotted on CCTV in Nijmegen: Dutch prosecutor

Dec 28 '16 14:59

Crime Top Stories

Anis Amri, the main suspect behind an attack on a Christmas market in Berlin on December 19th, was almost certainly in Nijmegen on December 21st, the Public Prosecutor said, according to NOS. A man matching Amri's description can be seen on surveillance camera footage at Nijmegen train station.

Maastricht train station evacuated on suspicious passenger

Mar 24 '16 07:41

Crime

The central station in Maastricht was evacuated and closed down for several hours on Wednesday night due to a suspicious suitcase. It later turned out to be a false alarm.

Bomb squads investigating suspect packages in three Dutch cities

Nov 20 '15 13:10

Crime

A suspicious package at the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Zwolle led to the building being evacuated on Friday afternoon. An Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad is investigating. EOD teams are also investigating suspicious packages found in Huizen and Haarlem.

Rotterdam Police: Dead bodies found “amid suspicious circumstances”

Sep 18 '15 14:32

Crime

The police are investigating the deaths of a 55 year old man and his 58 year old wife in Rotterdam

Train passenger arrested for NS death threat

May 6 '15 16:53

Crime

A 32-year old man was arrested on Wednesday at the Roosendaal train station for threatening NS conductor's life, police states in a press release.

Woman throws debit card reader at NS staff

Mar 26 '15 16:02

Crime

A 34-year-old woman from Deventer was detained at a train station after throwing a debit card reader at the head of an NS employee on Wednesday, NU reports. The NS staff member managed to come away from the incident with just a sore jaw, police reported.

Dutch stop terrorist attacks in Netherlands

Nov 3 '14 14:28

NS should pay up for bike storage: MP

Oct 1 '14 17:31

Politics

The cost of building bike storage facilities at train stations is becoming too high for municipalities, according to the ChristenUnie MP Carla Dik-Faber. Dik-Faber has called for the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) to contribute funds for construction and operation.

Train station robbery caused massive damage

Sep 18 '14 10:21

Crime

The damage to the NS train station Vlaardingen-Oost after a car crashed into the building and subsequently burst into flame is so extensive that investigators cannot yet review it and cannot yet make estimations, the Algemeen Dagblad reports.

Departure board disruptions at platforms

Apr 22 '14 08:10

Throughout the country, the digital departure boards on platforms at train stations are not displaying any information.

Change in Train Station Ownership

Apr 1 '13 14:56

Business

Train stations should no longer be the responsibility of the Dutch Railways, Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) said D66 Member of Parliament Stientje van Veldhoven on Monday. To make the division of roles in rail infrastructure more equal the ownership of stations should go to ProRail, the railway administrator.

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