This New Train's Troublesome History | NS ICNG

The Netherlands is getting ready to welcome a new fleet of Intercity trains. Branded "ICNG," short for "Intercity New Generation," these trains will have a top speed of 200 km/h. They will be running on domestic services as well as international services to Belgium. They will run over the High Speed Line which runs from Amsterdam to the Belgian border.
But that high speed line is 14 years old. So why are these trains only entering service now?
Join us as we dive into the messy history of high speed rail in the Netherlands. Will the ICNG be the end of all the drama?

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News Article Translations:
~NOS News Article, June 3, 2013: "NS Wants to Stop with Fyra"
~Treinreiziger.nl Article, June 28, 2021: "Traxx trains cause 50 million Euros in damage to the HSL"
~"Verdict of the Netherlands Arbitrage Institute (NAI) about the cost distribution of the reparations to the rail damage caused by use of TRAXX locomotives on the HSL Zuid." Published by Parliament on June 14, 2021

Chapters
0:00 Introducing the HSL Zuid
0:58 History of the HSL Zuid
1:40 FYRA: Origins
2:18 The AnsaldoBreda Debacle
4:22 Back to Slow Trains
4:47 Intercity Direct
5:17 Intercity The Hague - Eindhoven
5:33 International train rerouted to the high speed line
5:56 Announcing ICNG
6:58 ICNG Test Train in Amersfoort
7:37 Why the Old Trains Need to Go
9:08 Why the New Trains are not Ideal
9:28 Why they are so late
9:49 Good news, but...
10:32 Future Service Plans
10:53 Conclusion