Nijmegen Lent 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 ...

located in

Lent Lent ( la, Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring temptation by Satan, according to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke ...

, just north of Nijmegen,

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. The station was opened on 1 June 2002 and is located on the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway. The train services are operated by

Nederlandse Spoorwegen Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; en, "Dutch Railways") is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The Dutch rail network is one of the busiest in the European Union, and t ...

. The station opened in 2002 was actually a temporary station for 11 years. On 25 July 2013 the new, permanent, station was opened which features lifts. This station is located 250m further south than the temporary station.

History

The first station of Lent opened in 1882 and was closed in 1934 because there were too few passengers. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

, the station was opened again twice, in 1940 and 1941 and when the bridge into Nijmegen was blown up, this was the terminating station for trains from

Arnhem Arnhem ( or ; german: Arnheim; South Guelderish: ''Èrnem'') is a city and municipality situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands about 55 km south east of Utrecht. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland, located on both ban ...

temporarily. The station was reopened on 1 June 2002 as part of the Waalsprong development of Nijmegen.

Train services

, the following train services call at this station: *Local services: **''Sprinter'': 's-Hertogenbosch - Nijmegen - Arnhem **''Sprinter'': (Wijchen -) Nijmegen - Arnhem - Zutphen

Bus services

*13: Lent - Nijmegen station - Heyendaal - University - Wilhelmina Hospital - Dukenburg - Bijsterhuizen - Wijchen *14: Arnhem - Elst - Nijmegen *15: Lent - Nijmegen station - Heyendaal - University - Wilhelmina Hospital - Dukenburg - Wijchen *33: Arnhem - Huissen - Angeren - Doornenburg - Gendt - Bemmel - Nijmegen *300: Arnhem - Huissen - Bemmel - Nijmegen *331: Arnhem - Elst - Nijmegen *N30: Arnhem - Huissen - Bemmel - Nijmegen (''Night bus'') *N31: Arnhem - Elst - Nijmegen (''Night bus'')

External links

NS website

Dutch Public Transport journey planner

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