Train Cab Ride NL / Thalys Passing in Dense Fog / Breda - Amsterdam / TRAXX Intercity / January 2022

Welcome on board a brand new train cab ride everyone! This time a foggy ride on the HSL. Now you will know how it feels running trains without much sight. In this video the fog sometimes closes in to about 150 meters of sight. Still enough to see sometime for you as well. Later in the video the fog will clear. I hope you will enjoy the ride.

0:00 Shunting Breda
We start where we ended with our last HSL ride. On the shunting track in Breda. From this point we walk to the other side of the train and get it ready for departure again. Time to get back to the platform!

4:05 Departure Breda
Departing at almost the same time as the DDZ train on the right. He got a head start.

7:19 Breda Prinsenbeek

9:20 Delayed Thalys Passing
Fun images for you all of a passing Thalys at 300km/h! Enjoy that short shot.

11:00 Voltage Change-over
After the Thalys train is far enough ahead of us we can finally make gain some speed and enter the HSL. From the moment we enter the voltage change-over until passing the phase-lock about 5km ahead the train will run without any engine power.

13:37 Phase-lock Lage Zwaluwe
Very unfortunate located phase-lock. This is the reason we cannot gain speed for a total of 7km from entering the HSL until passing this section. A phase lock makes sure there won't be to many trains running in one section.

14:44 Gaining Speed
15:28 Brug Hollandsch Diep
16:13 Tunnel Dordtsche Kil
19:28 Tunnel Oude Maas

21:08 Voltage Change-over
After running on the HSL we need to change back to the normal tracks with 1500V DC.

21:52 Kap Barendrecht
23:32 Rotterdam Lombardijen
24:17 Rotterdam Stadion
24:50 Rotterdam Zuid + Willemsspoortunnel
25:57 Rotterdam Blaak

26:58 Rotterdam Centraal
Arrival at Rotterdam with a minute delay. This because we had to wait for the delayed Thalys train.

32:10 Voltage Change-over + Tunnel Rotterdam Noord
Back to the HSL. And of course again back to changing voltage.

34:23 Gaining Speed
37:49 Phase-lock Bleiswijk
40:41 Tunnel Groene Hart

46:26 Ringvaartaquaduct
The Dutch love water. We have loads of it in our country. And that sometimes means you have to be creative. The tunnels we pass in this video (Dordtsche Kil and Oude Maas), and the Ringvaartaquaduct all have water passing over it. Awesome piece of infrastructure.

49:46 Voltage Change-over
50:53 Hoofddorp

52:00 Train Condition Cameras + Tunnel Schiphol Airport
Recently ProRail placed cameras next to the track at Schiphol to take pictures of the pantographs on the trains. If the pantographs appear to be damaged a notification will to out to NS so it can be replaced.

53:40 Schiphol Airport
1:02:23 Amsterdam Lelylaan
1:04:31 Amsterdam Sloterdijk
1:07:51 Singelgrachtbrug

1:09:03 Amsterdam Centraal
And we arrive on the final stop of the video. Welcome in Amsterdam. The train will run back to Breda from here. Two red lights are needed on the tail of the train. One of the tail lights was broken. At TRAXX we can activate three red lights as well. And because one is broken we now have two red lights again. Creative but productive!

I hope you liked this video. See you back in two weeks! Cheers!

More ride info
https://treinposities.nl/ritinfo/20220114/913

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