Dutch Rail (NS) has cancelled its contract with the staffing agency responsible for safety when a maintenance train crashed through the buffers at Stavoren station last month.

Rail management company Prorail says the firm, Spoorflex Safety First, is responsible for a number of serious mistakes but declined to go into details.
However, sources told the Telegraaf the errors include ignoring a red light ‘because it was only a short piece of track’. And in 2008, a railway track worker was hit by a train because safety officials from Spoorflex did not do their job properly.
The official in charge of safety on the maintenance train which crashed in Stavoren at the end of July was a temporary worker from Spoorflex and the train driver spoke no Dutch.