The drivers and conductors would like to end up at home at the end of the day. Even if you just run the normal schedule, there will always be disruptions, and t

The drivers and conductors would like to end up at home at the end of the day. Even if you just run the normal schedule, there will always be disruptions, and there needs to be a system to adjust the planning so people and things end up at the right place at the end of the day. That was the system that failed. Have you any idea how frequent the trains in the Netherlands are and how complex the schedule? "Simply" running the existing schedule is an absolute impossibility. About the only thing they could maybe have done was to fall back on back-and-forth shuttle trains between major node stations. But that would only provide a very basic service, with incorrect train materiel being used for the normally expected number of passengers. It would be just enough to get passengers and personnel home. I would like to see something like a pen-and-paper schedule that they can fall back on, but they don't have it. (They did something like that at the first corona lockdowns, although with more planning involved.)