Leiden Lammenschans is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wi ...

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. The station, designed by Koen van der Gaast, was opened on 18 May 1961. It is served by trains running between Leiden Centraal and Utrecht Centraal, and by

RijnGouweLijn The RijnGouweLijn ( en, The Rhine- Gouwe Line), or RGL, was a proposed light rail project in South Holland, Netherlands, that used some new tracks and some existing tracks from the Gouda–Alphen aan den Rijn railway and the Woerden–Lei ...

trains running between Leiden Centraal and Gouda at

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. Leiden Lammenschans was named after the nearby

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Schans Lammen, the encampment of the

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troops during the

Siege of Leiden The siege of Leiden occurred during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War in 1573 and 1574, when the Spanish under Francisco de Valdez attempted to capture the rebellious city of Leiden, South Holland, the Netherlands. The siege fai ...

in 1573 and 1574.

Train services

The following services call at Leiden Lammenschans: *2x per hour intercity service Leiden - Alphen aan den Rijn - Utrecht *2x per hour local service (''sprinter'') Leiden - Alphen aan den Rijn - Gouda (peak hours only)

External links

NS website

Dutch Public Transport journey planner
Railway stations in South Holland Railway stations opened in 1961 Buildings and structures in Leiden {{Netherlands-railstation-stub