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The main public transport in the Netherlands for longer distances is by train. Long-distance buses are limited to a few missing railway connections. Regional and local public transport is by bus and in some cities by metro and tram.
Below are the train routes in the Netherlands as of 2011 (may be outdated) with the number of the train series. It is typically a multiple of 100, followed by a number between 1 and 99 (where odd numbers are for trains in one direction, and even numbers for trains in the other, except for some international services).
Maximum speeds on the rail network. The Netherlands has a rail network totalling 7,021 kilometres (4,363 mi) of track, [1] or 3,013 route km. [2] Three quarters of it is electrified, one third is single track. Railway lines are built in standard gauge, apart from a few narrow gauge industrial and recreational railways.
The Dutch rail network primarily supports passenger transport. [5] Rail travel comprises the majority of the distance travelled on Dutch public transport. [6] The national rail infrastructure is managed and maintained by the government agency ProRail, and a number of operators have concessions to operate their trains. [7]
The order also included 50 trainsets Mat '46: 221-240 and 270-299. Plan C was a series of 10 postal cars from the PTT, derived from the Plan D carriages of the Dutch Railways. The postal cars were delivered in 1952 and decommissioned in 1979. Plan K: Plan K is a carriage series that was used by the Dutch Railways between 1957 and 1984.
Railway network in the Netherlands, 2017. There are currently 401 railway stations in the Netherlands [1] including four which are used only during special events and one which serves the National Railway Museum only. NS Stations is the body which manages and owns all railway stations in the Netherlands. [2]
The overall plan, called Rail 21, was approved in 1989, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the first railway in the Netherlands (1839). HSL-Zuid was constructed between 2000 and 2006, and began operating in 2009. HSL-Oost was cancelled in 2001, HSL-Noord was cancelled in 2007.
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.
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