The high-speed train that travels at up to 250 km/h will go into service on the Amsterdam –Amsterdam Airport Schiphol – Rotterdam – Antwerp – Brussels and Amsterdam – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol – Rotterdam – Breda route. The high-speed trains will be built by AnsaldoBreda in Italy.

The test runs of the prototype train will start on the HSL-South in the Netherlands and the L4 high-speed line in Belgium in the near future.

At first, NS Hispeed will schedule the Traxx trains operating between Amsterdam Central Station, Schiphol and Rotterdam Central Station to run on workdays at a frequency of one per hour from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. A modified timetable will apply to holidays. Even during this initial stage, it will take only 43 minutes to cover the distance between Amsterdam and Rotterdam.

In future, a high-speed train will be running every ten minutes from Amsterdam Central Station to Schiphol, Rotterdam and from there either to Breda or to Antwerp, Brussels and Paris.

NS Hispeed is the operating name of High Speed Alliance, which is owned 90% by NS and 10% by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.