Train operating service NS and track operator and maintenance group Prorail are to begin working more closely together again, the Volkskrant reports on Tuesday.

The state-owned companies were created in 2001 when NS was forced to separate its different operations, but say a closer alliance will serve passengers better.
‘Over the past few years, both companies have profiled themselves as competely separate companies. But they have a joint social responsibility – operating one of the busiest railway networks in the world,’ NS transport director Ingrid Thijssen told the paper.