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Railway Transportation in Netherlands |
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Railway transportation in Netherlands forms the principal means of transport in Netherlands. Therefore the country features a wide network of railways that links up almost every cities and towns in Netherlands with each other. Being the principal means of transport in Netherlands, the trains are available at frequent intervals, two trains per hour on most lines in the country. The big cities in Netherlands are connected by trains that ply as much as 8 or 10 trains an hour. The trains in Netherlands forming railway transportation in Netherlands are divided into the following categories:
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- Stoptreinen that is trains which stop at all stations
- Sneltreinen that is fast trains which stops only in bigger towns
- Intercities that is super fast trains between bigger cities
A government task organization called ProRail bears the expenditure for the maintenance and extensions of national railway network in Netherlands excluding metros and trams. The rail capacity determined by the ProRail is implemented by the public transport operators and cargo operators in Netherlands like Railion, ERS, ACTS, and Rail4Chem. Most of the trains used for public transport have first and second class compartments while some railways operated by local railway operators have only second class compartments.
Railway Transportation in Netherlands also consist international trains.
- Benelux train plies from Amsterdam in Netherlands to Brussels in Belgium.
- Thalys, a high speed train runs from Amsterdam to Paris and twice a week to Marne-La-Vallée-Chessy that is the
- Disney land resort in Paris.
- HSL Zuid a new high speed railways is under construction that will ply from Amsterdam to Brussels
- Ostbahnhof is a high speed train that plies between Amsterdam and Berlin.
- Frankfurt HBF that plies between Amsterdam and Munich via Switzerland
A constituent part of railway transportation in Netherlands is the night train service called Nachtnet that plies per hour at night connecting Rotterdam Central , Delft, The Hague Central, Leiden Central , Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam Central, Utrecht Central. The night service is popular in Netherlands for its typical U-shaped line connecting most of the big cities in Netherlands.
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