Train Cab Ride NL / Utrecht - Nijmegen - Roosendaal - Vlissingen / Four Provinces / March 2024

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Hi everyone! A little late but it's time for a 261km ride! We start the ride in Utrecht at the dawn of day. The sun will start shining soon. You'll get to see the just re-opened modernized station Ede-Wageningen. We have a first timer in this video for the route Nijmegen to 's-Hertogenbosch. I added extra information to the route Roosendaal to Vlissingen. 0:00 Utrecht Centraal 3:02 Utrecht Vaartsche Rijn 5:59 Bunnik 9:04 Driebergen-Zeist 13:39 Ecoduct 14:38 Maarn Goederen 15:12 Maarn 18:20 De Haar connection 21:09 Veenendaal-De Klomp (Province Border) Today we'll run through the Provinces Utrecht - Gelderland - Noord-Brabant and Zeeland! 24:31 Ede-Wageningen This station has been upgraded. What do you think of the new look of Ede-Wageningen? 30:50 Wolfheze 32:28 Oosterbeek 34:34 Arnhem Centraal In Arnhem we must change direction to head back towards Nijmegen. 39:32 Spoorbrug Oosterbeek 40:34 Arnhem Zuid 41:20 De Notenlaan brug Awesome looking bridge don't you think? :D 42:26 Elst 42:56 Ressen connection 45:33 Nijmegen Lent 46:08 Spoorbrug Nijmegen 47:05 Nijmegen After arrival at this station we change trains. This part of the journey has been never shown on my channel. Have fun! 52:37 Nijmegen Goffert 53:43 Nijmegen Dukenburg 55:49 Wijchen 57:29 Single Track towards Edithbrug (Province Border) This route has a short part that has just a single track. We'll pass the Edith Bridge. And there's also a long temporary speed limit in place. 1:00:43 Ravenstein 1:03:39 Requesting Green Lights at Oss Time to get back on schedule! 1:06:18 Oss 1:09:48 Oss West 1:14:25 Rosmalen 1:16:04 ‘s-Hertogenbosch Oost 1:17:46 ‘s-Hertogenbosch Arriving with just a small delay on 's-Hertogenbosch. 1:24:23 Vught connection 1:33:01 Tilburg Industrie 1:34:53 Tilburg connection 1:36:05 Tilburg Still an awesome looking roof! :D 1:39:44 Tilburg Universiteit 1:41:36 Tilburg Reeshof 1:43:42 Gilze-Rijen 1:48:07 Breda At Breda we have a 5 minute stopover. This because leaving here earlier would cause a 5 minute stop just before Roosendaal since the train in the opposite direction will depart there from our arrival platform just before we arrive. 1:56:39 Breda connection 2:00:34 Etten-Leur 2:11:09 Roosendaal Change of trains again. Now to the route towards Vlissingen. Shown about 1.5 months ago for the first time on my channel. This time the temporary speed limits are gone. And the weather will be much better than the last time we drove here. Also I added a lot of extra info in the video compared to last time! 2:14:05 Varkensneus MS75 The train on the left is coming from Belgium. In Dutch we call it the 'Varkensneus' (Pig Nose). 2:17:43 Old Locomotive on the Right Some history planted on the right side of the tracks! :D 2:19:07 Kragge connection 2:21:07 Bergen op Zoom 2:25:20 Longest Dutch Curved Rail (Province Border) Here's the longest Dutch Rail Curve we have. Almost two minutes before we'll reach the end of it. 2:28:00 Kreekrakspoorbrug 2:30:18 Rilland-Bath 2:33:22 Dijkcoupure On this route you'll see a lot of Dijkcoupures. These dikes can be shut for trains and water. The doors of the dikes will be closed in case of a water emergency and sand bags will be placed for extra support and strength. Zeeland has a lot of them all mentioned in the video. 2:34:48 Dijkcoupure 2:35:20 Krabbendijke 2:38:28 Dijkcoupure 2:39:10 Dijkcoupure 2:40:40 Kruiningen-Yerseke 2:43:00 Dijkcoupure 2:44:00 Vlakebrug No power lines available at this bridge. We must shut down the motors just before passing it. 2:46:20 Kapelle-Biezelinge 2:48:05 Contact Train Dispatcher It takes a long time before the level crossing is responding. Just as I call the dispatcher it already starts working. We have a small delay on departure. 2:51:15 ATB Track Failure Unfortunately we still have some ATB failures on this route. As soon as we get to it we report this back to the train dispatcher as well. 2:51:58 Goes 2:53:25 Contact Train Dispatcher 2:54:05 Stoomtrein Goes-Borsele On the left you can see the starting station for the steam line Goes - Borsele (museum trains). 2:56:10 Dijkcoupure 2:59:48 Lewedorp (connection) 3:01:10 Arnemuiden 3:04:20 Arnemuiden Spoorbrug (ATB Track Failure and small Dijkcoupure) 3:06:22 Dijkcoupure 3:07:12 Middelburg 3:08:20 Contact Train Dispatcher 3:11:25 Vlissingen Souburg 3:14:17 Vlissingen After a long ride we reach Vlissingen at almost the end the of morning. I hope you enjoyed the ride! Let me know what you think of it and have a good weekend! :D Cheers! The Meaning of Signals https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0017707/ More Ride Info https://treinposities.nl/ritinfo/20240301/3019 https://treinposities.nl/ritinfo/20240301/3625 https://treinposities.nl/ritinfo/20240301/2222 Want More? Check out my other Socials! https://www.instagram.com/machiniststefan https://www.threads.net/@machiniststefan https://bsky.app/profile/machiniststefan.bsky.social