A commuter train has derailed after slamming into a crane crossing the tracks in the Netherlands, killing the train's driver and injuring seven passengers.

Officials in the Netherlands say one person has died and 10 others are wounded after a passenger train hit a crane.

More than a dozen passengers have been injured in a collision between two trains in Amsterdam, reports say.

Archaeologists in the Netherlands have uncovered what they believe is part of the hardened military road that marked the northern boundary of the Roman Empire from the first century AD.

Two people were believed to have been killed when passenger train collided with an empty train car near Amsterdam central station tonight.