Train Cab Ride NL / Hoofddorp Opstel - Leiden - Hoorn Kersenboogerd / SNG Sprinter/ Aug 2020

Welcome on board the early morning sprinter to Hoorn Kersenboogerd. It's an early Saturday morning and I have just arrived by taxi on Hoofddorp Opstel. My shift of course started in Amsterdam but my train starts here today. After I gave the train a full reset because of some system failures the train was ready for a brand new day. Just a minute after departure time we are given permission to depart to Hoofddorp as an empty train. This train will start its day with passengers in Leiden so we have to take it to Hoofddorp and then change direction to Leiden. On our way to the platform in Hoofddorp we keep on the left track because it would give conflicts with other trains when changing direction on Hoofddorp station. After arrival in Hoofddorp we change direction and then depart towards Leiden. The scheduled speed is 100km/h. So we can take it easy. For the first few hundreds of meter we keep the speed low because I wasn't sure we had passed a 130km/h sign (right before our train on departure). Hey, it was very early... So forgive me. Haha. After we pass by the second 130km/h sign we speed up the train to the maximum allowed speed. From the moment the tablet tells me we will arrive on time, we let the train roll out. Trains can roll for a very long time without engine power because of their weight and the fact there's almost no friction between the train and the tracks. After arrival in Leiden we open the doors of the train and turn on the passenger lights. Welcome on board to the sprinter service to Hoorn Kersenboogerd! We depart just a little late from Leiden because the train manager was waiting for a passenger that was running from the stairs to the train. At arrival in Sassenheim we are back on schedule, but then one of the doors won't close anymore. At that moment I reopen the doors and give the train manager a hand closing it. After this is done we get back on board and get back on schedule as soon as possible. On our way to Hoorn we stop on all stations on the route including Schiphol Airport. After departure there it get a little busy on the tracks ahead. You can see this at the light signals not giving the constant green light. After departure from Amsterdam Sloterdijk there's an intercity running 3 minutes late ahead of us. This means we can't drive on time as well. The intercity runs towards Hoorn and Enkhuizen and won't make a stop in Zaandam. Therefor we can speed up the train pretty soon and get back on schedule again. On this route you can see a total of four bridges without overhead wires. At this point we just shut down the engines and roll over the bridges. Braking is always still possible but we can't speed up the train when we don't have power wires above us. After Hoorn we get changed to the left track. This is done because we then can change the trains direction in Hoorn Kersenboogerd for the way back. This isn't always possible. When we have too many trains running the train must be taken to the shunting track little further ahead to change direction. But for this video Hoorn Kersenboogerd is the final stop. I hope you enjoyed it. Have a good weekend y'all! Cheers. Time schedule and more: 3320: https://en.treinposities.nl/ritinfo/2... More about my work:   / machiniststefan     / machiniststefan