Classic route
Intercity Direct
Amsterdam → Breda · Netherlands
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New ICNG trains take the HSL-Zuid high-speed line, hitting 200 km/h as they link Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Breda without a change.
Stations
- 0 kmAmsterdam Central +10
- 19 kmSchiphol Airport +2
- 72 kmRotterdam Centraal +5
- 117 kmBreda +1
The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 18413426 (62 km), relation 1323488 (46 km), 107 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 94.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 5 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of ICD 1834
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Intercity Direct?
The Intercity Direct runs 123 km from Amsterdam to Breda.
How long does the Intercity Direct take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 8 min for the 123 km. That is an average of 109 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 200 km/h.
Who runs the Intercity Direct?
NS, with ICNG, Class 3100.
How old is the Intercity Direct?
The line has been in service since 2009. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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