Train Cab Ride NL / Rain / Zaandam - Den Helder - Amsterdam / VIRM Intercity / June 2019

Autumn in here! So it's time for a rainy video! It's actually a video from last June, but still. It looks like it's autumn. Haha. I hope you will like it. I hope to show you now all our work is done with loads of sunshine.
We start our journey in Zaandam. It's early in the morning and I just took a cab from Amsterdam to Zaandam to get this train from the shunting tracks over there. After making the whole train ready for its departure we take the train from the shunting track at departure time and take it as empty train to first stop: Alkmaar. Because we are an early train the train dispatcher uses our train to take some of the rust away from some junction in Uitgeest. That's why the detour and we aren't running straight through Uitgeest on high speed.
After arrival in Alkmaar I waited for a while on my train manager and the first passengers. Then we take the train as intercity to Den Helder. Well, it's called an intercity, but we stop on all stations on our way to our final stop. It's called an intercity because this train runs between Den Helder and Nijmegen and skips multiple station between Nijmegen and Alkmaar.
As you can see we depart with al little delay and it's hard to get back on time. This is because the tracks are wet and even in summer time this means the tracks can be slippery. Steal on steal and water and other chemical stuff on the tracks aren't the best combination.
After our arrival in Den Helder we change the direction of the train and return under intercity number 833 to Alkmaar. Of course we makes stops at all stations until Alkmaar again. In Alkmaar we combine the train with another train and after 15 minutes take the train further in the direction of Amsterdam. Normally the train continues right away, but today there are construction works around Amsterdam and the train schedules have been changed. On our arrival in Amsterdam Sloterdijk you can see the hard workers in action replacing old tracks for new ones.
I forgot one thing in the video. And that is our arrival time in Amsterdam. Whoops! Well, I won't let my computer render this video all over again, so here it is: we arrive at 09:32:-- at Amsterdam Central Station. Final stop for this video.
I hope you have enjoyed it and if you have any questions you know how to contact me! Have a good weekend! Cheers.
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