The Dutch Railways announced that
they will abandon the
high speed Fyra trains. After
a short period of operation, too many problems were discovered and the service
was stopped. After testing, it now turns out that the quality of finishing the
trains was insufficient. Each train had been finished in a different way. The
expected life of a train contractually defined as 30 years, will be much
shorter due to wear and tear. There has already been corrosion with the new
trains. And a low tension installation has been poorly designed. Also, during
the testing, there were incidents with bad batteries. The conclusion of the
Dutch Railways is that even an extensive recovery program and preventive maintenance
could not assure proper functioning of the trains. Full operation of the trains,
in the best case, is not guaranteed before 2018.
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