List of railway lines in the Netherlands
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Electrification of the rail network:
Electrified 1500 V DC
Electrified 25 kV AC 50 Hz
Electrified 3000 V DC (Belgium)
Electrified 15 kV AC 16,7 Hz (Germany)
Not Electrified
Number of tracks on a railway line:
Single track
Double track
Three track
Four track
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Maximum speeds on the rail network.
The Netherlands has a rail network totalling 7,021 kilometres (4,363 mi) of track,[1] or 3,013 route km.[2] Three quarters of it is electrified, one third is single track. Railway lines are built in standard gauge, apart from a few narrow gauge industrial and recreational railways.
List of railway lines by province[]
In contrast with the motorways in the Netherlands, and the railway lines in Belgium, the railway lines in the Netherlands are not identified by line numbers. For that reason, the lines listed below are named simply by reference to the names of their termini.
Groningen[]
- Groningen–Delfzijl railway
- Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway
- Ihrhove–Nieuweschans railway
- Meppel–Groningen railway
- Sauwerd–Roodeschool railway
- Stadskanaal–Zuidbroek railway
Friesland[]
Drenthe[]
Overijssel[]
- Apeldoorn–Deventer railway
- Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway
- Deventer–Almelo railway
- Dortmund–Enschede railway
- Lelystad–Zwolle railway (Hanzelijn)
- Utrecht–Kampen railway
- Zutphen–Glanerbeek railway
- Zwolle–Almelo railway
Flevoland[]
- Lelystad–Zwolle railway (Hanzelijn)
- Weesp–Lelystad railway (Flevolijn)
Gelderland[]
- Amsterdam–Arnhem railway
- Amsterdam–Zutphen railway
- Apeldoorn–Deventer railway
- Arnhem–Nijmegen railway
- Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway
- Elst–Dordrecht railway
- Nijmegen–Kleve railway
- Nijkerk–Ede-Wageningen railway
- Nijmegen–Venlo railway
- Oberhausen–Arnhem railway
- Rotterdam–Zevenaar railway
- Tilburg–Nijmegen railway
- Utrecht–Boxtel railway
- Utrecht–Kampen railway
- Winterswijk–Zevenaar railway
- Zutphen–Glanerbeek railway
Utrecht[]
- Amsterdam–Arnhem railway
- Amsterdam–Zutphen railway
- Den Dolder–Baarn railway
- Hilversum–Lunetten railway
- Utrecht–Boxtel railway
- Utrecht–Rotterdam railway
- Utrecht–Kampen railway
North Holland[]
- Amsterdam–Zutphen railway
- Amsterdam–Arnhem railway
- Amsterdam–Haarlem–Rotterdam railway
- Amsterdam–Schiphol railway
- Hilversum–Lunetten railway
- Den Helder–Amsterdam railway
- HSL-Zuid
- Weesp–Leiden railway
- Weesp–Lelystad railway (Flevolijn)
- Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway
South Holland[]
- Amsterdam–Haarlem–Rotterdam railway
- Breda–Rotterdam railway
- Elst–Dordrecht railway
- Gouda–Den Haag railway
- HSL-Zuid
- Rotterdam–Zevenaar railway
- Schiedam–Hoek van Holland railway
- Utrecht–Rotterdam railway
- Weesp–Leiden railway
Zeeland[]
North Brabant[]
- Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway
- Breda–Eindhoven railway
- Breda–Rotterdam railway
- Eindhoven–Weert railway
- HSL-Zuid
- Nijmegen–Venlo railway
- Roosendaal–Vlissingen railway
- Tilburg–Nijmegen railway
- Utrecht–Boxtel railway
- Venlo–Eindhoven railway
Limburg[]
- Eindhoven–Weert railway
- Liège–Maastricht railway
- Maastricht–Venlo railway
- Nijmegen–Venlo railway
- Sittard–Herzogenrath railway
- Venlo–Eindhoven railway
- Viersen–Venlo railway
- Weert–Roermond railway
Stretches with four tracks[]
- 5 Schiphol – Hoofddorp
- 5, 7 Leiden – Rijswijk
- 7 Schiedam – Dordrecht
- 13, 20 Amsterdam Centraal – Amsterdam Muiderpoort
- 13 Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena – Utrecht Centraal
- 9, 12 Boxtel – Eindhoven
- 15, 16, 19 Utrecht Centraal – Utrecht Overvecht
- 18 Utrecht – Woerden
- 18 Gouda – Gouda Goverwelle
Former railways[]
The railways in the following list have been closed and demolished:
History[]
Railway map 1904:
External links[]
References[]
- ^ "ProRail in cijfers" [ProRail in numbers] (in Dutch). ProRail. 2017. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
- ^ "CIA World Factbook | Field listing: Railways". www.cia.gov. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. 2012. Retrieved 2014-07-07.
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- Lists of railway lines by country
- Railway lines in the Netherlands
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