Arnhem – Leeuwarden railway line

Arnhem – Leeuwarden
A train of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen near Rheden
Route length:	166 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	1,500 V  =
Top speed:	140 km / h
Legend Line from Amsterdam , line from Nijmegen 0 Arnhem Centraal 1 Arnhem Velperpoort Route to Oberhausen 1 Arnhem Presikhaaf Rijksweg 12 4th Velp 8th Rheden 14th Dieren Line to Apeldoorn ( museum railway ) Apeldoorn Canal 20th Hum Route from Amsterdam IJssel 28 Zutphen Route to Winterswijk Twentekanal to Hengelo - Glanerbeek Gelderland - Overijssel provincial border Rijksweg 1 Schipbeek Route from Almelo Overijssels canal 44 Deventer Route to Apeldoorn 53 Olst 60 Wijhe Route from Almelo 73 Zwolle to the route to Apeldoorn ,  route from Utrecht to Kampen Route to Stadskanaal Vechte Rijksweg 28 Hoogeveense Vaart Rijksweg 32 Overijssel - Drenthe provincial border 101 Meppel Route to Groningen Drentsche Hoofdvaart Provincial border Drenthe - Overijssel 115 Steenwijk Provincial border Overijssel - Friesland 127 Wolvega Tjonger 137 Heerenveen Rijksweg 7 149 Akkrum Prinses-Margriet Canal 154 Grou -Jirnsum Line from Harlingen , line from Stavoren 166 Leeuwarden Route to Nieuweschans

The Arnhem – Leeuwarden railway line , also known as Staatslijn A , is a double-track, electrified main line between Arnhem ( Dutch: Arnhem ) and Leeuwarden in the Netherlands .

The railway line is the most important railway line in the north of the Netherlands. The route is about 166 kilometers. It connects the train stations Arnhem , Zutphen , Deventer , Zwolle and Leeuwarden with each other, in the section Zwolle-Meppel there are intercity trains from Schiphol to Groningen .

history

An InterCity near Zwolle

The first section of the line, between Arnhem and Zutphen, was opened on February 2, 1865. The section between Zutphen and Deventer followed on August 5th. The section between Deventer and Zwolle followed on October 1, 1866. Exactly one year later, the section to Meppel was opened to traffic. The penultimate section between Meppel and Heerenveen opened in January 1868. On September 1, 1868, the entire length of the line was open to traffic. The electrification took place on May 17, 1952 on the piece between Zwolle and Leeuwarden. The section between Arnhem and Zwolle followed a year later. The maximum speed on the route is 140 km / h. However, this is only achieved on the sections Zutphen-Deventer and Zwolle-Leeuwarden. Otherwise the route will mainly be driven at the maximum speed of 130 km / h. The line is generally double-tracked. The Deventer- Olst section, however, only runs on a single track.

Train traffic

An InterCity near Wolvega

Intercity trains are currently running on the route from Leeuwarden or Roosendaal to Zwolle and from Rotterdam via Utrecht to Leeuwarden. There are also some regional lines as well as regional and intercity trains in the Zwolle-Meppel section, which continue from Meppel in the direction of Groningen or which come from Amsterdam and Apeldoorn before Zwolle .

literature

• Peter Saal, Flip Spangenberg, Kijk op stations . Elsevier, Amsterdam / Brussel 1983. ISBN 90-10-04533-1

Web links

Commons : Arnhem – Leeuwarden railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Staatslijn A: Arnhem – Leeuwarden . In: martijnvanvulpen.nl (Dutch).
• Overzicht van de spoorlijn Arnhem – Leeuwarden . In: stationsweb.nl (Dutch).
• A Staatslijn . In: wiki.ovinnederland.nl (Dutch).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ history and information about the Staatslijn A . Dutch, accessed March 13, 2010