Railway line from Amsterdam to Zutphen

Amsterdam – Zutphen
A cross-border InterCity near Barneveld
Route length:	106 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	1,500 V (except Apeldoorn – Zutphen)  =
Top speed:	140 km / h
Provinces (NL):	North Holland , Utrecht , Gelderland
Legend from Schiphol , Den Helder and Haarlem 0 Amsterdam Centraal 4th Amsterdam Muiderpoort to Utrecht – Arnhem 5 Amsterdam Science Park A10 7th Diemen to Schiphol from Schiphol A9 Amsterdam Rijn Canal 13 Weesp Vecht to / from Almere – Lelystad 22nd Naarden-Bussum 24 Bussum Zuid 27 Hilversum Media Park 28 Hilversum to Utrecht A9 36 Baarn to Den Dolder from Utrecht 45 Amersfoort Centraal to Leusden – Kesteren GV only to Zwolle A28 51 Hoevelaken A30 to Ede-Wageningen A1 88 Apeldoorn Apeldoorn Canal to Deventer 91 Apeldoorn De Maten A50 A1 97 Klarenbeek 101 Voorst-Empe from Arnhem IJssel 106 Zutphen to Zwolle , Hengelo and Winterswijk

The Amsterdam – Zutphen railway , also called Oosterspoorweg , is a railway line between Amsterdam and Zutphen in the Netherlands .

The railway line is, next to the Amsterdam – Arnhem railway line, the most important railway line in the eastern Netherlands. The route is about 106 kilometers. It connects the cities of Hilversum , Amersfoort , Apeldoorn and Zutphen with Amsterdam .

history

The first section of the line, between Amsterdam and Amersfoort, opened in 1874. In 1876 the section between Zutphen and Amersfoort followed. The electrification took place on June 3, 1946 on the piece between Amsterdam and Amersfoort. Four and a half years later, the section between Amersfoort and Apeldoorn followed. The last stretch between Apeldoorn and Zutphen has not been equipped with overhead lines to this day. However, the train station in Zutphen has overhead lines, as other railway lines run over it. The maximum speed on the route is 140 km / h. However, this is only reached sporadically on the section between the train station in Weesp and the intersection with the Weesp – Leiden railway line shortly after the train station in Diemen . Otherwise the route will mainly be driven at the maximum speed of 130 km / h. Only the section between Apeldoorn and Zutphen is only driven at a top speed of 100 km / h. The line has six tracks between Amsterdam Central Station and Amsterdam Muiderpoort, followed by two lanes as far as Diemen. Shortly after Diemen it becomes four-lane for a short stretch to Weesp, but after the train station it becomes two-lane as far as Apeldoorn. From Apeldoorn to Zutphen it only runs in one lane.

Train traffic

A diesel train near Voorst

At the moment, the Intercity trains from Amsterdam to Apeldoorn run on the route , which will be extended to Deventer during peak hours . The InterCity also runs on it from Schiphol to Berlin , from The Hague to Enschede and from Almere to Utrecht . The regional trains from Leiden to Utrecht, from Amsterdam to Amersfoort, from Apeldoorn to Zutphen and from Amersfoort to Ede-Wageningen via Barneveld use them on sections.