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Europe / Netherlands · Conflict & Security

Arson attack closes rail line between Rotterdam and Delft

Rank
Running
30h
Updated
18h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
1
Countries
2
Languages
1

NU.nl Netherlands · Dutch 10 Oct, 05:58 UTC

The first outlet on the story

The only language so far · Dutch, 6 reports

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 31 hours.

2 4 6
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: NU.nl, 10 Oct, 05:58 UTC.
  2. Fastest hour: +3 outlets from 10 Oct, 05:58 UTC.
  3. Second country: Belgium, with Het Laatste Nieuws.
  4. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

31 of 31 hours

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The 2 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

100%

  • Europe 6 outlets · 2 countries · 100%

First movers

  1. NU.nl 10 Oct, 05:58 UTC
  2. NOS +5m
  3. RTL Nieuws +10m
  4. NRC +2h
  5. Het Laatste Nieuws +2h 32m

Latest arrivals

  1. VRT NWS 10 Oct, 11:02 UTC
  2. Het Laatste Nieuws 10 Oct, 08:30 UTC
  3. NRC 10 Oct, 07:58 UTC
  4. RTL Nieuws 10 Oct, 06:08 UTC
  5. NOS 10 Oct, 06:02 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 2 countries. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 2 public-service, 4 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Europe 2: Belgium, Netherlands. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Dutch.
Timeline
Earliest article NU.nl, 10 Oct 2026, 05:58 UTC. First seen 10 Oct 2026, 06:10 UTC. Last seen 10 Oct 2026, 18:38 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Europe, Netherlands. Topic Conflict & Security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.03, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
10 Oct 2026 237 3.02 6 2 6 2 4.7

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Started 10 Oct, 06:10 UTC · Updated 18:38 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • NOS Netherlands 10 Oct, 18:38 UTC
    Tot zeker zondagavond geen treinen tussen Rotterdam en Delft na brandstichting
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    • Brandstichting bij het spoor, geen treinen tussen Rotterdam en Delft 10 Oct, 06:02 UTC
  • NU.nl Netherlands 10 Oct, 17:44 UTC
    Zeker tot zondagavond geen treinen tussen Rotterdam en Delft na brandstichting
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • Hele dag geen treinen tussen Rotterdam en Delft door brandstichting bij spoor 10 Oct, 05:58 UTC
  • VRT NWS Belgium 10 Oct, 11:02 UTC
    Treinverkeer tussen Rotterdam en Delft ligt stil na brandstichting op spoor
  • Het Laatste Nieuws Belgium 10 Oct, 08:30 UTC
    Opnieuw hinder op Nederlandse sporen door brandstichting: politie onderzoekt mogelijke sabotage
  • NRC Netherlands 10 Oct, 07:58 UTC
    Geen treinverkeer op spoor tussen Rotterdam en Delft door brandstichting
  • RTL Nieuws Netherlands 10 Oct, 06:08 UTC
    Geen treinverkeer tussen Rotterdam en Delft door brandstichting bij spoorbrug
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