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The Hoofdgebouw I (Main Building I) complex in Utrecht, former Nederlandse Spoorwegen headquarters and nowadays the office of DB Cargo in the Netherlands. World War I caused an economic downturn in the Netherlands that caused the two largest Dutch railway companies, Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij (HSM) and Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen (SS), to become unprofitable.
NS International, formerly NS Hispeed, is a passenger railway operator based in the Netherlands that operates international intercity and high-speed connections to several European cities. It is a subsidiary of the Dutch state-owned railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS).
NMBS/SNCB is an autonomous government company, formed in 1926 as successor to the Belgian State Railways.From 1942 to 1944, amid Nazi Germany's occupation of Belgium, the company was paid 51 million Belgian francs by the Nazi Germany to send 28 trains carrying 25,843 Jews and Roma people to Auschwitz where only 1,195 survived. [2]
The Dutch National Railway Company (Nederlandse Spoorwegen/NS) was founded in 1837 and tasked with building the Dutch railway network. [9] The first Dutch railway was built and opened in 1839 on a short stretch between Amsterdam and Haarlem , and was expanded between 1840 and 1847 to The Hague and Rotterdam . [ 10 ]
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Schematic of the 2018 ProRail timetable. Dutch railway services is an index page of all the rail services operated in the Netherlands.. Railway services in the Netherlands are operated by the following (see also rail transport operators in the Netherlands):
In 1997, the Wabash was merged into NS along with its parent, the N&W. The Virginian Railway merged into the Norfolk and Western Railway on December 1, 1959. Other companies: Alabama Great Southern Railroad; Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Railway; Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad; Central of Georgia Railroad
Norfolk Southern Railway lines (highlighted in red, with trackage rights in purple, and haulage rights in lighter purple). The Norfolk Southern Railway owns and operates A vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.