Also, travellers in Dutch tweedeklastreincoup lwa’s over a few years the available outlets. That his state secretary Wilma Mansveld of Infrastructure and the NS on Monday agreed on the signing of a multi-year contract.
Now have only the most eersteklascoupés power outlets, allowing passengers, for example laptop or smartphone can be charged. The intention is that all compartments of the first and second class starting in 2021 over sockets. The carriages of the new intercity trains and the sprinters, it was announced.
With the plan want to Mansveld and the NS meet is a long cherished wish of many passengers and a majority of the Second Chamber. The appointment is part of a multi-year contract of the government and the NS. That contract is going to start next year and is ten years long valid. The NS must comply to 2025 on the rail network can continue to drive. ProRail, the rail is managing, signed Monday, also a multi-year contract.
Both the NS as ProRail must fulfil their tasks, since, otherwise, a penalty is imminent. That can reach, respectively, 6.5 million and 2.75 million per year. The government can, in extreme cases, to provide certain rights to take it back. On the other hand, the companies get a reward if they perform well.
Incidentally, the Netherlands is later than in Belgium concerning the provision of electrical outlets in all carriages. The Belgian carrier SNCB to do so, in almost all of the cars, although the number depends on the type of trainset.
Update 21.30 – Belgian added info.