On the evening of July 29, a Nightjet travelling from Amsterdam to Innsbruck, Austria was stranded due to a broken overhead line between Arnhem and Nijmegen. 500 train passengers had to be evacuated by ProRail and NS.
According to ProRail, all the travellers were safely evacuated to Utrecht by 10pm and given a voucher to book a hotel for the night. However, “Many hotels in the Utrecht area were full. Sixty travellers could not find a hotel,” said a ProRail spokesperson.
Around 20 passengers who were unable to get a hotel spent the night on a stationary train that was placed for them at Utrecht Central Station, keeping them covered and with heating overnight. The remaining 40 passengers travelled back to Amsterdam by public transport to find a hotel there.
The Nightjet tickets for all stranded passengers were rebooked and the broken overhead line has since been repaired. Train traffic between the Netherlands and Austria resumed on July 30 at 7.30am.
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