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NS Stations – in charge of the operation of all 404 railway stations in the Netherlands, i.e., also those served by other railway companies than NS Reizigers; see also station facilities. NS Vastgoed – owns 48 km 2 of land, often near stations, and develops and operates these areas as public traffic nodes, offices and apartments.
NS.nl Official website of Netherlands Railways. Rail Fan Europe on Dutch railway operators. Treinengek.nl Featuring pictures and information. Arthur's treinenpagina by Arthur Pijpers. Rail 1435 (named after the standard gauge in mm) by Max Hovens. Langs de rails Trains in the Netherlands since 1967, by Nico Spilt. Picture archive by Ben Doedens.
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 ]
The first train arrived in the Netherlands on 23 May 2020 to begin testing on the Dutch railway network. [6] Permission to operate on the Dutch network was granted at the end of 2022. [7] In April 2023, the NS began phasing the ICNG into operation. [8]
In the Netherlands there are three types of domestic train services on the main lines, these are: Intercity Direct - Domestic Intercity Service which runs along the high speed line (up to 200 km/h). Intercity - An express, limited-stop service, often calling only at major railway stations; in some cases it has stops at all stations along part ...
4001 at Venlo in April 1977 on a trial run 4005 abandoned in Utrecht in March 2009. The Intercity Materieel or ICM (lit. transl. Intercity Material – transl. Intercity Rolling Stock) is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen in the Netherlands.
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]
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).