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There are 387 train stations in the Netherlands, since December 2004, when Almere Oostvaarders was opened. Closure of the station at Dalen on the same date was planned, but fell through due to a mistake in the notification procedure.

Categories

Stations are divided into three categories. These are, in order of decreasing importance:

  • Intercity stations, where all trains (except, in some cases, international services) call.
  • Semi-fast train (sneltrein) stations, where both semi-fast and local trains call.
  • The remaining stations, where only local trains call.

On many lines, however, there may be only two categories of trains (for example, intercity and local), or just one (local). Furthermore, some local trains – despite being called stoptreinen – do not stop at all stations: two examples are the services from Utrecht Centraal to Almere Oostvaarders and to Geldermalsen.

On the route diagrams printed at the top of station departure sheets (see this example), intercity stations and semi-fast train stations are indicated by the letters IC and S respectively.

Spelling conventions

The practice in the Netherlands is to write the names of stations serving two communities with a hyphen (corresponding to "and") between the two names, thus: Beek-Elsloo; and to use a space where the second term specifies one of two or more stations serving one community, thus: Alkmaar Noord.

List of stations, with their official abbreviations

(excluding stations used only during special events)

A

B

C

D

Den Haag Centraal (Gvc) - lines 10, 11, 16, 17, 50 - formerly Staatsspoor (Den Haag SS), named after the former State Railway Operation Company (SS). Template:Mapeuc

E

F

G

H

I

K

L


- Lammenschans (Ldl) - map

M

N

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W

Z

Termini

Below are stations with tracks only in one direction (or, with the indication *, have tracks in the other direction only for a tourist line, a freight line or to a shunting yard), with links to track lay-out maps. See also Train station#Terminus.

Of these, only Den Haag Centraal has nearby junctions, with railways in different directions; in fact in three directions: to Den Haag HS, Voorburg and Laan v NOI. Train route 1400 (the night train) has Den Haag Centraal on the way, with reversal of direction.

New stations

New stations from December 2004:

Platforms and tracks

Not the platforms, but the tracks are numbered. Tracks without platform access, used for through traffic, also have a number. This number is not indicated, but it shows indirectly by the fact that in the numbering of the accessible tracks a number is skipped. Track numbers are usually increasing in the direction away from the center of the city and hence away from the main entrance(s) of the station.

A track along a long platform may have an "a" and a "b"-side, and sometimes three sections "a", "b" and "c".

Train tickets

Train tickets are least expensive from the ticket machines; at the counter (if available) a supplement of € 0,50 per ticket (with a maximum of € 1 per occasion) has to be paid (from June 2004); in the train a much higher supplement is applicable. From Summer 2005 it will be further discouraged to buy tickets from the train guard. Passengers not carrying a valid ticket are to be fined €35 administration charges unless they warned the train guard in advance.

NS division; station facilities

NS Stations is the division of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) in charge of the operation of railway stations, including supplying space for the many small shops and kiosks and owner of Stationsfoodstore (umbrella organisation of Albert Heijn convenience stores on stations) and Servex (using the brands Automaten, Brasserie, Burger King, Café T, Café T espresso, C'est du pain, Kiosk, mr. Pizza, Pizza Hut, Restauratie, Smullers, Het Station, Swirl's, and Wizzl).

Wizzl also sells train tickets. They are typically at small stations which have no separate ticket window or counter; an exception is Rotterdam, with a Wizzl at the back side of the station, while separate ticket windows are at the front side only.

Passenger comfort

Passenger comfort sometimes suffers from beggars, thieves, etc., but also from measures against them and against homeless people, e.g. locking waiting rooms in the evening, and sometimes removal of benches from station halls.

Station abbreviations

The official abbreviations of names of stations are used internally by the NS, but also on handwritten tickets; they can also conveniently be used when entering a station in the NS planners etc. and are needed in some URLs, see below. In a station it can be found in the lower right corner of the yellow departure schedules. In most URLs (see below) they have to be written in lowercase, in some a capital is optional. On the departure schedules they are written in lowercase. In other cases the abbreviations are written with a capital letter.

Example

  • Amsterdam Central (see Sporenplan link below, has separate maps covering east and west side, and see NS link in Railway_stations_in_the_Netherlands#Maps for track numbering) has six platforms:
    • four island platforms with on both sides tracks along the full length (tracks 4/5, 7/8, 10/11, 13/14)
    • one with on one side track along the full length (track 15)
    • one with on one side track along the full length (track 2), on the other side there is track only at the west end (track 1; bay platform), along the rest of the platform is the station building.
Tracks 3, 6, 9, and 12 have no platform.

Diagram (platforms are yellow, tunnels are grey, north is up):

15a ========== == ========== == ========== == ========== 15b
14a ========== ========== ========== ========== 14b
13a ========== ========== ========== ========== 13b
12a ========== ========== ========== ========== 12b
11a ========== ========== ========== ========== 11b
10a ========== ========== ========== ========== 10b
9a ========== ========== ========== ========== 9b
8a ========== ========== ========== ========== 8b
7a ========== ========== ========== ========== 7b
6a ========== ========== ========== ========== 6b
5a ========== ========== ========== ========== 5b
4a ========== ========== ========== ========== 4b
3a ========== ========== ========== ========== 3b
2a ========== ========== ========== ========== 2b
1 ====

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to station buildings in the Netherlands.

Photos

  • Stationsweb: photos and info (in Dutch but easy in use) on current and old stations
  • Langs de rails: photos and info on current stations and Dutch trains

Maps

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