|
's-Hertogenbosch Railway Station
s-Hertogenbosch () is a railway station located in 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant, Netherlands. The station and all services operating from it are operated by . History 's-Hertogenbosch station opened on 1 November 1868 as the northern terminus of the southern part of the Utrecht–Boxtel railway (''Staatslijn H''), with service south to Boxtel. Only in 1870 were the two parts of Line H joined, allowing for direct service to Utrecht Centraal. As the town was a fortress at the time, the station was designed with attack in mind; its wood truss construction allowed it to be dismantled or damaged with minimal waste. 's-Hertogenbosch station was further expanded upon the opening of the Tilburg–Nijmegen railway, making it an important railway junction. In 1896, the original station was replaced with a large brick structure designed by Eduard Cuypers. The station was relocated a few hundred metres south of the original, along with the realignment of the tracks to the west. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nederlandse Spoorwegen
(, , NS ) is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The rail infrastructure is maintained by network manager ProRail, which was split off from NS in 2003. Freight operator NS Cargo merged with DB Cargo in 2000. NS runs 4,800 scheduled domestic trains a day, serving 1.1 million passengers. The NS also provides international rail services from the Netherlands to other European destinations and carries out concessions on some foreign rail markets through its subsidiary Abellio (transport company), Abellio. History Early years 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. The companies avoided bankruptcy by integrating their operations, which was complete by 1917. The cooperation was for both economic and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livorno
Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 152,916 residents as of 2025. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronounced , "Leghorn" in the Oxford Dictionaries Online. or ). During the Italian Renaissance, Renaissance, Livorno was designed as an "ideal town". Developing considerably from the second half of the 16th century by the will of the House of Medici, Livorno was an important free port. Its intense commercial activity was largely dominated by foreign traders. Also the seat of consulates and shipping companies, it became the main port-city of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. The high status of a multiethnic and multicultural Livorno lasted until the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tilburg Railway Station
Tilburg railway station is a railway station located in Tilburg in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. The station was opened on 5 October 1863 and is located on the Breda–Eindhoven railway and Tilburg–Nijmegen railway. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS). North of this train station used to be the large Tilburg Works, where large scale work were carried out on locomotives. Since 2013 these works are carried out northeast of the city in a new industrial area, called Loven-Noord, along the Tilburg–Nijmegen railway. Gallery File:Tilburg Station.jpg, Tilburg Station, 2023 File:NS station Tilburg (exterieur), Spoorzone, 1 april 2017.jpg, Tilburg Station, 2017 File:Aanzicht station - Tilburg - 20535536 - RCE.jpg, Tilburg Station, 2009 File:Overzicht station - Tilburg - 20535533 - RCE.jpg, Tilburg Station, 2009 File:Tilburg station.jpg, Tilburg Station, 2005 Train services The following services currently call at Tilburg: *2x per hour i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breda Railway Station
Breda railway station is a railway station in Breda in North Brabant, Netherlands. It is situated on the Breda–Rotterdam railway, the Roosendaal–Breda railway and the Breda–Eindhoven railway. History The first station was opened on 1 May 1855 as the eastern terminus of the Roosendaal–Breda railway. When the line was extended to Tilburg, a new station was built on the same site in 1863. The station was initially run solely by a Belgian company, the Société Anonyme des chemins de fer d'Anvers à Rotterdam until the opening of the line to Tilburg from Staatsspoorwegen ''(Dutch State Railways)'', which changed after the merger between that company with the HSM in 1938 to Nederlandse Spoorwegen. In the 1970s, the station was rebuilt in combination with being placed on a viaduct. This station was opened on 10 October 1975 and designed by architect Hans (J.) Bak. The station was recognisable by its design with a large canopy over the two platforms with four tracks. The regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roosendaal Railway Station
Roosendaal is a railway station in the city of Roosendaal, Netherlands. The station opened on 3 July 1854 on the Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway and is the beginning of the Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway. Roosendaal was the first station in North Brabant to be built. Roosendaal is also a border station between the Netherlands and Belgium. Trains in Belgium run on the left side of double-track whereas in the Netherlands right-hand running is the norm. At some borders, the changeover is achieved by using a flyover, but at Roosendaal trains stop and await a signal to allow them to proceed to the opposite track. Since June 2015 there has been an NMBS ticket machine at the station to buy Belgian train tickets. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venlo Railway Station
Venlo railway station is located in Venlo, the Netherlands. It is situated on the Maastricht–Venlo railway, the Viersen–Venlo railway, the Venlo–Eindhoven railway and the Nijmegen–Venlo railway. The first station in Venlo was opened on November 21, 1865. The current building dates from 1958 and is a typical Dutch station of the post-war era, featuring a clock tower and a large canopy spanning the front of the station. There is a bus station for regional and city buses in front of the station, as well as a car park. Train services The following train services call at this station: *Express services: **''Intercity'': Schiphol Airport–Utrecht–'s-Hertogenbosch–Eindhoven–Helmond–Venlo **: Venlo–Viersen–Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf–Wuppertal–Hagen–Hamm *Local services: **''Stoptrein'': Nijmegen–Venlo–Roermond Venlo is a border station and therefore sees a significant number of shunting movements. On several tracks, the catenary can be switched ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schiphol Airport Railway Station
Schiphol Airport station is a major passenger railway station in Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands, beneath the terminal complex of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, operated by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The station's six platforms are accessible via twelve escalators and three elevators located in the main concourse of the airport (''Schiphol Plaza''). The original station was opened in 1978, and the current station in 1995. It connects the airport to Amsterdam and other cities in the Netherlands, as well as to Belgium and France. History The original railway station at Schiphol was partly at street level and opened on 21 December 1978. Initially, passengers could only travel as far as Amsterdam's Amsterdam Zuid station, Zuid WTC and Amsterdam RAI railway station, RAI stations, as well as south bound towards Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam. For trips to Amsterdam Centraal station, passengers had to travel to RAI and transfer to a local train. A direct link was created with the const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enkhuizen Railway Station
Enkhuizen is a terminus railway station in Enkhuizen, Netherlands. The station opened on 6 June 1885 and is located at the end of the Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway. The station and services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The station has a nearby ferry departure point with a ferry to Stavoren. There is also a ferry to and from Medemblik Medemblik () is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West Friesland (region), West-Frisia. It lies immediately south of the polder and former municipality of Wieringermeer. History Med ..., allowing one to travel the so-called "historical triangle" using the Steamtrain Hoorn Medemblik from Hoorn to Medemblik, the boat to Enkhuizen and the train back to Hoorn from here (or the other way around). Both ferry services operate only during the summer. Train services The following services currently call at Enkhuizen: *2x per hour intercity service Enkhuizen–Hoorn–Amsterdam–Hilve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NS VIRM
VIRM trains, full name Verlengd InterRegio Materieel (), are a series of electric multiple unit (EMU) double-deck trains operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen or NS (''Dutch Railways''), the principal railway operator in the Netherlands. NS has 178 of these double-deckers – 98 four-carriage sets, and 80 six-carriage sets. The trains were built between 1994 and 2009 – for the most part by Talbot, part of Bombardier Inc., with some railcars built by De Dietrich. The VIRM trains evolved out of the previously existing DD-IRM series (DubbelDeks InterRegio Materieel or ''Double-deck interregional rolling stock''). The first batch of 81 VIRM trains was created by lengthening all the existing DD-IRM combinations by one or two railcars. Three-unit trainsets were augmented by one carriage to transform them into a four-unit VIRM, and the four-unit sets received two more carriages, to create six-unit VIRM trains. Names * VIRM (Verlengd InterRegio Materieel) * DD-IRM (Dubbeldeksinterregi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maastricht Railway Station
Maastricht railway station ( ; ) is located in Maastricht in Limburg, Netherlands. It is the main railway station in Limburg's capital city. It is the southern terminus of the –Maastricht intercity service by NS. Additionally, Arriva and the Belgian NMBS serve the station with local trains. History The station opened on 23 October 1853 together with the . In 1856, a railway connection to was opened. Both lines are now (partially) closed. In 1861, the Liège-Maastricht railway connection was opened. It was not until the opening of the Maastricht–Venlo railway in 1865 that Maastricht was connected to the rest of the Netherlands. Due to the fortified character of the town, the first railway station was in fact situated outside Maastricht, within the municipality of Meerssen. The first station was built out of wood, so that in case of attack it could quickly be demolished. The municipal borders were adjusted in 1907, making the station part of the municipality of Maastricht. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eindhoven Centraal Railway Station
Eindhoven Centraal railway station is the main railway station in Eindhoven in North Brabant, Netherlands. It is the busiest station outside the Randstad area and an important station in the southern part of The Netherlands. History The station was opened on 1 July 1864 and is located on the Breda–Eindhoven railway, the Venlo–Eindhoven railway and the Eindhoven–Weert railway. The station is operated by . The station is 900m east of the Philips Stadion, which is served by Eindhoven Stadion railway station in the event of football matches or other special events at the stadium. Train services Eindhoven Centraal is a major interchange station for train services in the southern Netherlands. The station is served by the following service(s): *2x per hour Intercity services (Schagen -) Alkmaar - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Eindhoven - Sittard - Maastricht *2x per hour Intercity services The Hague - Breda - Eindhoven *2x per hour Intercity services Schiphol - Utrecht - Eindhoven - Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utrecht Centraal Railway Station
Utrecht Centraal, officially Station Utrecht Centraal (), is the Transport hub, transit hub that integrates three bicycle parkings, two bus stations, two tram stops and the central Train station, railway station for Utrecht, Netherlands. It is the biggest train station in the Netherlands. Both the railway station and the bus station are the largest and busiest in the Netherlands. The bicycle parking station on the east side is the largest in the world. The railway station has sixteen platform tracks (of which twelve are Railway platform#Types of platform, through tracks) and 207,360 embarking and disembarking passengers per day, excluding transfers. Because of its central location in the Netherlands, Utrecht Centraal is the most important railway hub of the country with more than 1,000 departures per day. History The first railway station at the site was opened on 18 December 1843, when the Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij opened the first station on Utrecht territor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
