I wondered how long it would take me to find a photo of a bike with my favourite train in the background...
I was born in the Netherlands and remember those trains, though at the time I used to travel to school most of those trains were in a yellow livery with a blue band around the windows for Intercity services. I loved those trains, they had a certain ride quality because they were heavy, they were most suited to longer distance routes as they took longer to accelerate and slow down. On certain routes you could hear the rumble of these trains on the tracks from quite some distance away!
The green one as in the photo was an earlier livery and my favourite. There was a group of people in the Netherlands who actually bought a train and had it restored and repainted for preservation and exhibition purposes, a bit like what we do with our bikes.
Lovely photo. It brought back some memories from my school years during the 80's!