Gilze-Rijen is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

located in Rijen,

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

in the municipality

Gilze en Rijen Gilze en Rijen () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southern Netherlands. The municipality contains four villages: Rijen, Gilze, Hulten and Molenschot. It is home to the Gilze-Rijen Air Base. Rijen grew in the 19th centur ...

. Although the railway station is located in Rijen, it's called Gilze-Rijen because of the

Gilze-Rijen Air Base Gilze-Rijen Air Base (, ) is a military airbase in the south of Netherlands. It is known for having the hottest temperature ever measured in the Netherlands, with a temperature of 40.7 °C, on July 25, 2019. It is between the cities of Bred ...

, just south of Rijen. The station was opened on 5 October 1863 and is located on the

Breda–Eindhoven railway The Breda–Eindhoven railway is an important railway line in the Netherlands running from Breda railway station to Eindhoven railway station, passing through Tilburg railway station and Boxtel railway station. The line was opened between 1863 ...

between Breda and Tilburg. The station is operated by

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 operato ...

Train service

The following services currently call at Gilze-Rijen: *2x per hour local services (''sprinter'') 's-Hertogenbosch - Tilburg - Breda

Bus services

Bus Services 130, 131, 230 and 231 stop outside the station. 130 goes from the town hall in Rijen to the immigration detention centre in Gilze; 131 goes from

Breda Breda ( , , , ) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. ...

Tilburg Tilburg () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. With a population of 22 ...

via Gilze and Rijen.

External links

NS website

Dutch Public Transport journey planner
Railway stations in North Brabant Railway stations on the Staatslijn E Gilze en Rijen Railway stations in the_Netherlands opened in 1863 {{Netherlands-railstation-stub