Local trains and faster trains dominate the 2 Dutch Belgium rail links by Roosendaal and Maastricht. Roosendaal has to be feared for when the High Speed railway will open. NS Commerce is not thinking in local boarder crossing services. Between Holland and Germany IC and ICE services (every year one less it seems) pass Arnhem to Oberhausen and Hengelo to Bad Bentheim. At Nieuwe Schans and Heerlen only local services cross the almost none existing inner European boarders.
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17 July 2004 BD634-657 and Noordnet 3215 meet at Nieuweschans. The 3 times a day cservice is not very traveller friendly and trains not running through between Bremen and Groningen is more than just silly. -
Nieuweschans 17 July 2004 were DB 634-657 and Noordnet 3215 meet. Only the sportive and adventures travellers like mone cross platform connections like this. -
18 Feb 2006 Arnhem station with Syntus Lint no 25 as the first of 4 return trips to Emmerich. A Saterday and Sunday service only. -
Syntus 25 as the first of 4 return trips from The Netherlands in the German town Emmerich. Boarder crossing ICE trains do not stop here anymore. -
Gronau Germany 18-12-2004 with trains to and from Enschede being the most frequent boarder crossing between Germany and The Netherlands. -
8 July 2005 Utrecht CS 1946 hours the driver has trouble to convince would be travellers to Germany that this 1964 designed NS emu normally in local services is the replacing ICE train upto Emmerich. -
German – Dutch cooperation 3 year experiment NS Buffel comes from Almelo every hour to BB. Here with Westfalenbahn connection at Bad Bentheim 24 March 2011 -
EC 144 Berlin – Amsterdam Schiphol Airport pulled with a DB 120 arrives at Bad bentheim for a very old fashioned loco change on 24 March 2011 -
At Groningen main station 2 coupled Arriva Stadtler dmu's form the connection with Leer, Germany. The second set will stay at Nieuweschans border and the first set runs to Leer. Actually the train should connect Groningen with Bremen as EVB runs 4 times a day with a direct bendy bus. Dutch Chipcard users can travel on this card to Leer.
