- Dordrecht railway station
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Dordrecht Station statistics Coordinates 51°48′27″N 4°40′4″E / 51.8075°N 4.66778°ECoordinates: 51°48′27″N 4°40′4″E / 51.8075°N 4.66778°E Lines Breda–Rotterdam railway
Elst–Dordrecht railwayPlatforms 7 Other information Opened 1872 Code Do Owned by Nederlandse Spoorwegen Location Dordrecht is a railway station in Dordrecht, the Netherlands located on the Breda–Rotterdam railway and the Elst–Dordrecht railway. The station was opened on 1 January 1872, when the railway line between Rotterdam and Antwerp was opened. On 16 July 1885, the railway line from Dordrecht to Gorinchem was opened. The neo-Renaissance railway station building is located to the south of the city centre. Dordrecht is now an important railway station on the Nederlandse Spoorwegen railway network.
Destinations
These are some of the main destinations directly available from Dordrecht:
Rotterdam, The Hague (Den Haag), Leiden, Haarlem, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Amsterdam, Roosendaal, Zeeland, Antwerpen, Brussels, Breda, Tilburg, Eindhoven, Venlo, Gorinchem and Geldermalsen.
At Geldermalsen there is a good service to Utrecht, the centre of the Netherlands, where many destinations can be reached.
- For Gouda and Amersfoort travel to Rotterdam Centraal and change onto an Intercity towards Enschede or Leeuwarden.
- For Sittard, Maastricht or Heerlen travel to Eindhoven and change there.
- For Ede, Arnhem travel to Rotterdam Centraal and change onto a train towards Utrecht Centraal. There change onto a train towards Nijmegen.
- For Nijmegen travel to Tilburg and change onto an Intercity to Nijmegen.
Train services
The following services call at Dordrecht:
- 1 hourly intercity service Amsterdam - Rotterdam - Roosendaal - Brussels
- 2 hourly intercity services The Hague - Breda - Eindhoven - Venlo
- 2 hourly intercity services Amsterdam - Rotterdam - Roosendaal - Vlissingen (one Amsterdam - Dordrecht only)
- 1 hourly night train (nachtnet) service Rotterdam - Breda - Eindhoven (weekends only)
- 2 hourly express services (sneltrein) Amsterdam - Rotterdam - Breda (one Amsterdam - Dordrecht only)
- 2 hourly local services (stoptrein) Leiden - The Hague - Rotterdam - Dordrecht
- 2 hourly local services (stoptrein) The Hague - Rotterdam - Dordrecht - Roosendaal (one The Hague - Dordrecht only)
- 4 hourly local services (stoptrein) Dordrecht - Gorinchem - Geldermalsen
Preceding station Nederlandse Spoorwegen Following station Roosendaaltoward Brussels-SouthIntercity 9200 Rotterdam Centraaltoward Amsterdam CentraalRotterdam Centraaltoward Den Haag CentraalNS Intercity 1900 Bredatoward VenloRoosendaaltoward VlissingenNS Intercity 2100 Rotterdam Centraaltoward Amsterdam CentraalRotterdam CentraalTerminusNS Nachtnet 21400 Bredatoward Eindhoventoward BredaNS Sneltrein 2200 Rotterdam Lombardijentoward Amsterdam CentraalZwijndrechttoward Leiden CentraalNS Stoptrein 5000 Terminus Zwijndrechttoward Den Haag CentraalNS Stoptrein 5100 toward RoosendaalTerminus Arriva Stoptrein 36700 toward GeldermalsenRailway stations in South Holland Alphen aan den Rijn | Arkel | Barendrecht | Bodegraven | Boskoop | Capelle Schollevaar | De Vink | Delft · Zuid | Den Haag Centraal · Hollands Spoor · Laan van NOI · Mariahoeve · Moerwijk · Ypenburg | Dordrecht · Stadspolders · Zuid | Gorinchem | Gouda · Goverwelle | Hardinxveld-Giessendam | Hillegom | Hoek van Holland Haven · Strand | Leerdam | Leiden Centraal · Lammenschans | Maassluis · West | Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel | Rijswijk | Rotterdam Alexander · Blaak · Centraal · Lombardijen · Noord · Stadion · Zuid | Schiedam Centrum · Nieuwland | Sliedrecht | Vlaardingen Centrum · Oost · West | Voorburg | Voorhout | Voorschoten | Waddinxveen · Noord | Zoetermeer · Oost | Zwijndrecht
Categories:- Railway stations in South Holland
- Railway stations opened in 1872
- Railway stations on the Merwede-Lingelijn
- Railway stations on the Staatslijn I
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