Large-scale Rotterdam rail outage reveals critical Dutch infrastructure vulnerability

A cable fire has disabled a railway section in the south of Rotterdam. Initially, the problem seemed to be a relatively quick fix, but its complexity only became clear in the following days. Rail freight is relatively untouched by virtue of the location of the damage. Still, had this happened elsewhere, the problem would have been much, much bigger.

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