{"id":228921,"date":"2025-06-03T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=62933"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T06:31:09","slug":"dutch-freight-rail-yard-kijfhoek-now-fully-automated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=228921","title":{"rendered":"Dutch freight rail yard Kijfhoek now fully automated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The largest Dutch rail yard, Kijfhoek, is now fully automated. Siemens Mobility completed a 2021 project worth 110 million euros, implementing a system that increases operational efficiency and reduces handling times.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-62933\"><\/span>Siemens Mobility carried out the project on the instructions of Dutch infrastructure manager ProRail. &#8220;The facility now in full operation marks an important milestone. Now fully renewed, our freight yard facility near Rotterdam is not only fast and efficient, it also strengthens its position as a key freight hub connecting the port of Rotterdam with other European industrial centers\u201d, explains Helga Cuijpers, a regional director at ProRail.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin: 25px 0;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 0 auto 2px auto; border-radius: 6px; box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Kijfhoek-Siemens.jpeg\" alt=\"Automation equipment at Kijfhoek\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 0.9em; color: #666; line-height: 1.3; text-align: left; max-width: 1024px; margin: 0 auto;\">Automation equipment installed by Siemens Mobility at Kijfhoek.<br \/>\nImage: \u00a9 Siemens Mobility<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The rail yard improvement includes the implementation of the \u201cTrackguard Cargo MSR32\u201d system. It \u201cdelivers comprehensive yard automation, featuring advanced route and speed control units, retarders, and propelling systems, alongside radio-based integration for precise humping locomotive control\u201d, explains Siemens Mobility.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the system optimises operations across the board at Kijfhoek, starting at train arrival to departures. Kijfhoek is an important component of the Dutch rail network. It is located just outside of Europe\u2019s biggest port, Rotterdam. It also features strong connectivity to European inland destinations. In terms of infrastructure, Kijfhoek boasts 14 arrival tracks, 41 classification tracks and 12 stabling tracks.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border: 1px solid #004a99; background: #eaf3fb; border-radius: 4px; padding: 15px; margin: 20px 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0;\">Parking fees on rail yards in the Netherlands are high compared to those in neighbouring countries. In a positive turn for the Dutch rail freight sector, ProRail is set to decrease those fees by <strong>13%<\/strong> to <strong>43%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/business\/2025\/05\/22\/dutch-rail-freight-still-in-trouble-after-parliamentary-votes-here-are-the-numbers\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/53869387244_30bd72b36f_k-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/business\/2025\/05\/22\/dutch-rail-freight-still-in-trouble-after-parliamentary-votes-here-are-the-numbers\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">Dutch rail freight still in trouble after parliamentary votes: Here are the numbers.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The largest Dutch rail yard, Kijfhoek, is now fully automated. Siemens Mobility completed a 2021 project worth 110 million euros, implementing a system that increases\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[869,343,16928,393,47,5462],"tags":[12634],"class_list":["post-228921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automation","category-infrastructure","category-kijfhoek","category-netherlands","category-rail-news","category-siemens-mobility","tag-railfreight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228922,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228921\/revisions\/228922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}