Emplacement yard Kijfhoek operates at half capacity from 1-11 May
Dutch emplacement yard Kijfhoek will operate with only half of its capacity on the period from Saturday 1 May to Tuesday 11 May. Strukton will…
New fire vehicles and emergency roads to make Kijfhoek safer
A new management agreement has been signed to improve the safety at Dutch emplacement yard Kijfhoek in Zwijndrecht. Two additional calamity roads and three new…
Dutch railways get 1.4 billion extra for track maintenance
Over the next two years, an extra 700 million euros will be invested in the Dutch railway network. This allows infrastructure manager ProRail to solve…
Safety Kijfhoek not in order, fines of hundreds of thousands may follow
Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail risks fines of hundreds of thousands of euros because the risk management at Kijfhoek is not in order. This jeopardizes the…
Concerns Dutch rail freight operators heard by state secretary
In the Netherlands the concerns of rail freight operators were heard by state secretary Stientje van Veldhoven of Infrastructure and Water Management, who visited rail…
Dutch railway yard Kijfhoek resumes operations this afternoon
Train traffic on Dutch railway yard Kijfhoek will largely be back to normal from this afternoon, 26 May, 3pm. The three main switches on the…
DB Cargo: rail freight traffic to and from the Netherlands may take longer
DB Cargo expects delays in single wagonload traffic to, from and in the Netherlands. This is because of restrictions at Kijfhoek, the main emplacement yard…
Works at Kijfhoek classification yard delayed
The launch of maintenance works at the Dutch Kijfhoek classification yard scheduled for last week, from 1 to 4 August, was delayed for an unknown…
Dutch Kijfhoek meets safety standards after row of accidents
Rail infrastructure at Dutch classification yard Kijfhoek meets 94.6 per cent of the standards. This conclusion was drawn by the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate…
Cost increase marshalling in the Netherlands investigated
Dutch State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management Stientje van Veldhoven will investigate the proposed cost increase for the use of the Kijfhoek marshalling yard…
Measures to improve safety at Dutch classification yard Kijfhoek
Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail has commissioned an independent investigation into the safety culture at Kijfhoek, the main classification yard of the Netherlands. It has also…
Concerns over safety Dutch classification yard Kijfhoek
The main classification yard of the Netherlands, Kijfhoek, is under scrutiny after four accidents took place in less than two months. Host municipality Zwijndrecht is…