When I started photographing railway ans tramway matters in 1974 most trains already were painted yellow. After the future vision “Spoorslags ’70” NS worked out also a new corporate image. Yellow and a new logo were adopted and the inland “40 Steden Tempo Trein” was introduced. Every hour an Intercity between the 40 most important stations. Connections granted on a number of crossing platforms. It worked out well. Over the years the number of passengers grew and grew. They even more than doubled.
Today such a plan would be renewing and refreshing again. Todays NS-Reizigers (passengers) have become a slow acting and inside looking company who completely forgot what service is. The best performance they would like to have seems to be running empty trains exactly on time.
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27 mei 1981 (1788) A postmotor (in Dutch a Mp) in its original brown colour bud already with a yellow noose. With two vans it leaves Roosendaal for Breda. It is one of the very few colour negative films I ever used. -
NS253 and 1505 with DB110-234-2 When the railways were really still interested in boarder crossing connections there was a every two hour IC between Den Haag CS and Koeln over Breda and Venlo. In the seventies some off the coaches were pre WW 2 stock and former 1950 sleeper cars. It always was a nice train to travell with. In Venlo loco’s were changed. Mostly Dutch 1500 series (former BR) hauled the train in The Netherlands while the German part was mostly a 1100 series eloc 18-8-1975 -
10 September 1978 (02646) A mat’56 4 car emu crosses the old bridge over Apeldoorns Kanaal nearing Apeldoorn station. -
mat 46 passing on the line Eindhoven to Venlo on the rong track 3-11-1979 -
NS2517 with Jansen rebuild freight cars for ballast transport awaits departure. 18 August 1975 Bergen op Zoom -
25 September 1976 Roosendaal yard. NS1007 being ckecked by the driver before departure. In those days I was satisfied by just taking a picture from the platform. -
16 May 1976 Zwolle station with two so called mat46 (from 1946) awaiting their duties. Those lovely old emu’s were at that time still in service. -
NS eloc 1157 still in its original livery. Only the new NS sign on the side did spoil its appearance. Zwolle 16 May 1976. -
At 16 May 1976 this was old and new at Zwolle. Mat64 and a mat46 both as local services to Amersfoort and Leeuwarden respectively. -
Zwolle 16 May 1976 with an unindentified coach representing the first large NS electric series mat24. I have rode these cars back in 1963 and later as locomotive hauled coaches in the early seventies. The wooden banches and the old fashioned interior were from a different area. It indeed woke my interest in the railway scene. Railway police office -
15 Februar 1981 NS mat46 no.704 local train 3360 Roosendaal to Dordrecht an Roosendaal track3b -
15 Februar 1981 mat 46 no.287 and mat 54 no.398 leaving Etten-Leur train 4337 Zwolle – Roosendaal -
27 Februar 1981 Roosendaal NS1126 arrives from Amsterdam with D286 to Paris with a 15 coach train. -
NS1501 (former BR) with plan D coaches forming the train to K -
18985 1984 Utrecht CS NS 1102 arrives with older coaches that will disappeared soon after -
NS 1502 with ICR carriages forming IC 2512 just past the Moerdijkbrug south of Dordrecht on 24 March 1984 -
ND DE3 near Groesbeek 24 March 1984 -
Two DE3 diesel DMU’s at Wehl on 24 March 1984 -
NS2310 with freight near Wehl 24 March 1984 -
24 March 1984 -
19102 17 March 1984 NS 1125 with new ICR couches IC Moerdijkbrug -
00212 July 1974 NS DE2 at Arnhem -
00213 NS 1146 with train from the German Ruhr area at Arnhem July 1974. In those days the number of boarder crossing train was much larger then today -
NS 1152 with IC Koeln – Den Haag at Dordrecht on 26 March 1980 -
IC 2523 Den Haag to Koeln at Tilburg 1 June 1981. Nowedays there is no direct connection by train anymore between NL & Germany via Venlo and most people drive. Local services more or less connect at Venlo and mostly NOT cross platform -
NS 1105 with TEE Rembrandt passing Driebergen to Amsterdam 16 April 1979 -
NS 1123 already grey and yellow but still without nose pulling two combined D trains; Holland – Wien and Holland – Italia Riviera Express at Driebergen 16 April 1979
