Classic route
Intercity Zwolle–Roosendaal
Zwolle → Roosendaal · Netherlands
- Distance
- 205 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 43 min
- Average speed
- 75 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- NS
- Train
- NS ICM / VIRM
- Countries
- Netherlands
- In service since
- 1865
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The long Dutch diagonal, Overijssel to the Belgian border in two and three quarter hours down the IJssel through Deventer and Zutphen and across Brabant, on the state railway the act of 1860 ordered built.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4864 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: NS — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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