Haarlem Railway Station, Netherlands
This image shows the standard style of the nameplate of the station, white on blue, with a white square in the upper left corner.
The stations are divided into two categories depending on the service they receive These are, in order of decreasing importance.
Intercity stations, where usually all trains except in some cases, international call services.
Other stations, where only local trains Sprinters call.
There are exceptions to this categorization Some local trains despite being called stoptreinen do not stop at all stations two examples are the service Groningen Roodeschool Tiel and Arnhem.
On routes printed patterns on top of departure leaves the station see this example, intercity stations and semi-fast train stations are indicated by the letters IC and S, respectively.
ProRail classify stations in 5 categories according to the facilities available categories are English cathedral Mega most basic and stopping 3.
In that order, are the ten largest Dutch stations by number of passengers per day 4.
The stations are usually named after the city, they serve if a city is served by several stations, other names are given to indicate the station's position as.
Centraal CS Central abbreviated - the largest resort with more than 40,000 passengers per day.
Centrum Center - the largest station with less than 40000 passengers per day, or a central station.
A particular area of the city, e g Amsterdam Sloterdijk Station.
If a station serving two communities, two community names are given, separated by a hyphen, e g Krommenie-Assendelft.
Currently, only six stations are assigned Centraal Utrecht Centraal, Amsterdam Centraal, Rotterdam Centraal, Leiden Centraal, Den Haag Centraal and Arnhem Centraal.
List of resorts, with their official abbreviations Change.
Not the platforms, but the tracks are numbered Dutch communication, NS refers to Spoor 1 channel 1, etc. While communication in English, NS refers to platform 1 where the track 1 is designed so all island platforms have two tracks numbers without access platform, used for transit traffic, also have a number This number is not specified, but indirectly shows that, in the numbering of tracks available a number is a track number SKIPPED are increasingly in the direction of the city center and thus far from the main entrance the station.
A track along a long platform may have a a and b a -side, and sometimes three sections a, b and c.
In many stations, the above platforms and their points or access, there are dynamic displays electronic display of the destination and the departure time of the next train to see the platform signs nl rail.
For control and with an OV-chipkaart card reader are the entry stations, halls and or platforms, it can be recharged increase the credit amount by paying with ATM The limited variety of map also can be purchased here for some minor rail operators all this does not yet apply.
Paper tickets are available in the same ticket vending machines; Counter if it is available for an extra 50 0 per ticket with a maximum of 1 per occasion must be paid in both cases, one can choose a dated or undated ticket; it can be useful if one has not yet decided the date of travel if the ticket is not dated, it requires a stamp of a stamp machine to the travel date.
With an electronic ticket purchased in advance for a specific trip, you can just take the train without further validation of the ticket.
Passenger comfort sometimes suffers homeless beggars or pickpockets especially in large cities actions taken to remedy this situation include CCTV installation lock them at night waiting rooms, and sometimes the removal of benches halls also station a valid train ticket is required to access passenger platforms with heavy baggage must note that no baggage carts are provided, except at the station of Schiphol airport, although the platforms are accessible by elevator.
The official abbreviations of the names of stations are used internally by the NS, but also on the notes written by hand; they can also be used easily by entering a station in the NS planner on but not and are necessary in certain URLs, see below in a station, it is in the lower right corner of the yellow departure times in most URL see below, they must be written in lower case, in some capital is optional on departure times, they are written in lowercase in other cases, the abbreviations are written with a capital letter in a list sorted by abbreviation nl see Lijst van afkortingen van Nederlandse spoorwegstations.
The stations also have a four-digit code that is used on the keyboard of ATMs of old notes to specify a destination.
Includes departure schedules and maps for other stations asd change in the URL or enter their name or code at the bottom of the page schedules are posted on the stations in the same format, but yellow or blue feature in the case of temporary abbreviated versions of the station is displayed in the lower right corner.
- Excel file with stations, the official abbreviations and contact information.
Map of railway network nodes and the list of nodes having adjacent nodes.
Demo of ATMs installed at each station.
Stationsweb Photos and information in Dutch, but easy to use on current and old stations.
Langs rails photos and information about current Dutch stations and trains.
European Railway Server European Railway Server, the section on the photos of Dutch stations.
Schematic maps of all the tracks, switches and platforms.
Zoomable map of all tracks and stations, updated for 2009.
Railway map with all the research stations for spoorkaart.
Cards middle of the station and the station layout of some stations, select Nederland - Reisinformatie - Stationsvoorzieningen.
Stations in the Netherlands, railway stations, 40, 000 passengers per day, European Railway Server.