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NS International - services international trains and domestic high-speed service. Foreign railway operators with NS authorization service several Dutch stations: DB Regio, including DB Regionalbahn Westfalen and DB Euregiobahn; NMBS/SNCB – Maastricht–Eijsden, as part of the Maastricht–Liège service; and also Roosendaal to Antwerpen and ...
International (high speed) services to countries such as Belgium, France and Germany are mostly operated by NS International and Thalys, although other operators have international services as well, such as Deutsche Bahn and Belgian Railway services. Below the train services are arranged by type, and for each type ordered by number.
A Thalys train at Amsterdam Centraal A Fyra train in the Dutch countryside. High-speed rail service in the Netherlands started on 13 December 2009 with the dedicated HSL-Zuid line that connects the Randstad via Brussels to the European high-speed rail network. In later years improved traditional rail sections were added to the high-speed network.
Railway network. Number of tracks: 1=red, 2=blue, 3=green, 4=yellow. Maximum speeds on the railway network. The following list focuses on the routes taken by trains traveling on railway lines in the Netherlands. A list including all the stops on the train routes can be found at Dutch Railway Services. [citation needed]
Intercity Direct, abbreviated to ICD, is a Dutch category of higher-speed train service, operating on the HSL-Zuid and connecting Amersfoort Vathorst / Lelystad to Amsterdam Zuid, Schiphol Airport, Rotterdam Centraal and Breda. Some services cross the border with Belgium, extending to Brussels-South. It is part of NS International.
The frequency of domestic trains is at least twice per hour during daytime on weekdays, except on two services by Arriva. Almost all timetables are planned on a clock-face schedule since 1971 and apart from a few regional lines all trains have a symmetry around x:00/x:30 as have neighboring countries. On many lines services are combined to 4x ...
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).
Railway network for public transport in the Netherlands Many trains are double-deckers Most distance travelled on Dutch public transport goes by rail. [ 8 ] Like many other European countries , the Netherlands has a dense railway network, totalling between 7,021 kilometres (4,363 mi) and 7,300 kilometres (4,500 mi) of track, [ 27 ] [ 28 ] or ...