Dordrecht railway station

Dordrecht railway station
Dordrecht
Dordrecht Station.jpg
Station statistics
Coordinates 51°48′27″N 4°40′4″E / 51.8075°N 4.66778°E / 51.8075; 4.66778Coordinates: 51°48′27″N 4°40′4″E / 51.8075°N 4.66778°E / 51.8075; 4.66778
Lines Breda–Rotterdam railway
Elst–Dordrecht railway
Platforms 7
Other information
Opened 1872
Code Do
Owned by Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Location
Dordrecht railway station is located in Randstad
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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 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
Roosendaal
Intercity 9200
Rotterdam Centraal
Rotterdam Centraal
NS Intercity 1900
Breda
toward Venlo
Roosendaal
toward Vlissingen
NS Intercity 2100
Rotterdam Centraal
Rotterdam Centraal
Terminus
NS Nachtnet 21400
Breda
toward Eindhoven
toward Breda
NS Sneltrein 2200
Rotterdam Lombardijen
Zwijndrecht
NS Stoptrein 5000 Terminus
Zwijndrecht
NS Stoptrein 5100
toward Roosendaal
Terminus Arriva Stoptrein 36700

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