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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]
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]
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): Nederlandse Spoorwegen; NS International; Keolis Nederland; Breng; Arriva; Connexxion; DB ...
Prorail provides a railway map showing all stations, and showing at a point where lines A, B and C meet whether A splits into B and C, or B into A and C etc. [11] NS provides a schematic railway map with all railways for public transport, not showing at a point where lines A, B and C meet whether A splits into B and C, or B into A and C etc ...
Two current Dutch Railways InterCity trains: a refurbished ICM train in the foreground, and the front of a VIRM double decker behind it. Photo taken during the rebuild of Rotterdam Central station; in the background the current overall roof is taking shape, while the foreground still shows one of the old individual platform covers
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.
One of the most comprehensive European-wide timetable information is provided by the electronic timetable search engine of German Railways Deutsche Bahn [9] (information is also available in Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Turkish).
Since the start of the 21st century, parking spaces for 450,000 bicycles were built and modernized at over 400 train stations, and Dutch railways organizations ProRail and NS are calling for an expansion by another 250,000 by 2027. [25] Already half of all Dutch train travelers cycle to the railway station, amounting to half a million cyclists ...