Statistics for 2023

Rijden de Treinen keeps track of all train disruptions in the Netherlands since 2011. Disruptions are archived by line and by cause. On this page, you can lookup statistics like the railway line with the most disruptions, the most common causes for a disruption, or the number of disruptions per month.

It may be interesting to know how these statistics are calculated, and how you can be sure that these statistics are statistically valid. See the explanation for more information about how Rijden de Treinen calculates disruption statistics, and what is the best way to interpret them.

See the list with all causes for disruption for statistics about a specific cause.

Summary

Between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023, Rijden de Treinen has reported 1,227 disruptions. This is an average of 13 disruptions per day.

The total duration for all disruptions in this period was 1 year, 2 months, 12 days, 2 hours, 17 minutes. This translates to an average of 4 days, 17 hours, 46 minutes with train disruptions per day.

The average duration for a disruption in this period was 8 hours, 32 minutes.

These statistics may change as this period is not over yet.

Number of disruptions and total duration

This graphs shows the number of disruptions within the period you have selected, and the total duration of all disruptions (measured in hours).

As this period has not been finished yet, an estimate is made for the total number of disruptions within this period. This is a linear extrapolation.

Top 10 lines with disruptions

This list shows the railway lines with the highest number of disruptions.

  1. Amsterdam Centraal - Schiphol Airport
    60 disruptions • duration: 9 days, 3 hours
  2. Rotterdam Centraal - Schiphol Airport
    50 disruptions • duration: 6 days, 6 hours
  3. Leiden Centraal - Schiphol Airport
    46 disruptions • duration: 3 days, 7 hours
  4. Arnhem Centraal - Winterswijk
    45 disruptions • duration: 20 days, 8 hours
  5. Amersfoort - Schiphol Airport
    45 disruptions • duration: 5 days, 23 hours
  6. Lelystad Centrum - Schiphol Airport
    39 disruptions • duration: 4 days, 23 hours
  7. Kampen - Zwolle
    37 disruptions • duration: 23 days, 19 hours
  8. Rotterdam Centraal - Utrecht Centraal
    35 disruptions • duration: 2 days, 9 hours
  9. Aachen Hbf - Heerlen
    32 disruptions • duration: 1 month, 19 days, 14 hours
  10. Den Haag Centraal - Utrecht Centraal
    32 disruptions • duration: 2 days, 16 hours

One disruption often impacts multiple railway lines. In those cases, the same disruption is counted for each affected line.

Main causes for disruption

In order to better understand the main causes for disruptions, Rijden de Treinen uses categories. You can see how disruptions are categorized.

This graph shows the number of disruptions per category.

Exact causes for disruption

This graph shows the various causes for a disruption and the number of disruptions with these causes. The causes for disruptions are provided by NS.

Top 10 disruption causes

  1. Broken down train
    381 disruptions • average duration: 40 minutes
  2. Collision
    148 disruptions • average duration: 1 hour, 51 minutes
  3. Strike at Arriva
    76 disruptions • average duration: 2 days, 8 hours
  4. Points failure
    53 disruptions • average duration: 2 hours, 37 minutes
  5. Signalling and points failure
    46 disruptions • average duration: 2 hours, 59 minutes
  6. Staffing problems
    41 disruptions • average duration: 6 hours, 49 minutes
  7. Staking bij Keolis
    37 disruptions • average duration: 1 day, 18 hours
  8. Signal failure
    35 disruptions • average duration: 2 hours, 41 minutes
  9. An emergency call
    34 disruptions • average duration: 49 minutes
  10. Repair works
    33 disruptions • average duration: 5 hours, 25 minutes

Disruptions per weekday

This graphs shows the number of disruptions per day of the week.