Trains across the Netherlands were cancelled on Tuesday morning after IT problems hit the national operator NS.

The company had planned to run a winter timetable because of heavy overnight snow, but a fault with an “essential system” that allocated drivers to trains on the revised schedule meant no services could run until 10am.

The fault did not affect regional rail operators, but trains were also delayed by weather-related problems such as frozen points.

Schiphol Airport cancelled 350 flights on Tuesday morning and more disruption is expected as the airport faces a third day of chaos.

Stranded passengers had to book their own hotels and transport on Monday as airlines were unable to cope with the large number of cancellations.

Temperatures dropped below zero across the entire country, apart from a few coastal areas in Zeeland and the island of Texel, reaching minus 10.6C in Gilze-Rijen, Noord-Brabant.

More snow to come

Tuesday afternoon will bring some respite from the snow, with sunshine and temperatures of between 1C and 4C, but up to 5cm of snow is expected to fall overnight as temperatures drop back below zero.

Snow and ice also led to delays and collisions on the roads on Tuesday, although rush-hour congestion was less severe than feared.

The meteorological agency KNMI issued a code yellow warning for fog, with visibility down to less than 100 metres in western Gelderland and parts of Noord-Brabant.

The highways agency Rijkswaterstaat measured 300km of tailbacks at 8am, below the average for a Tuesday morning of 475km, but warned motorists to be aware of icy conditions.

A crash involving a lorry on the A12 between Gouda and Utrecht led to delays of more than two hours at De Meern, while drivers on the A58 in Noord-Brabant were held up for around an hour between Breda and Bergen op Zoom.

Buses in Flevoland and Utrecht were cancelled on Tuesday morning because of the icy roads. “We cannot guarantee the safety of our people, our passengers, our equipment and other road users,” Andrea Verdonk, spokeswoman for local bus operator EBS, told Omroep Flevoland.