Control car Benelux

This control car has been in service since 1986 on the ‘Benelux trains’, the service running between Amsterdam – The Hague – Rotterdam – Roosendaal – Antwerp – Brussels. A control car is a carriage from which the driver can remotely control the locomotive. This means there is always a locomotive to push the train when the control car is at the front. The advantage of a control car is that the locomotive does not need to be shunted at the terminus. The driver simply walks to the other end of the train.

A train consisting of a locomotive, a control car and standard carriages is called a push-pull train. As a push-pull train, the Benelux train always runs in combination with a locomotive from the Belgian Railways (NMBS). The train’s colours differ from the NS corporate identity. The blue band around the windows has been replaced by burgundy red, the NMBS corporate colour.