railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
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Almelo
Almelo () is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. The main population centres in the town are Aadorp, Almelo, Mariaparochie, and Bornerbroek.
Almelo has about 72,000 inhabitants in the middle of the rolling countryside of Twente, ...
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. The station was opened on 18 October 1865 and is on the
Deventer–Almelo railway
The Deventer–Almelo railway is an important Dutch railway line, that connects Deventer with Almelo, Netherlands.
History
The railway was opened by the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Locaalspoorweg-Maatschappij (KNLS) on 1 September 1888, with cons ...
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Almelo–Salzbergen railway
The Almelo–Salzbergen railway is an important Dutch and German 54 kilometre long railway line, that connects Almelo with Salzbergen, offering a rail link between the Netherlands and Germany.
History
The railway was opened by the Spoorweg-Ma ...
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Zwolle–Almelo railway
The Zwolle–Almelo railway is a regional railway line, that connects Zwolle with Almelo, Netherlands.
History
The railway was part of the third national construction period of railways in the Netherlands. This last phase of railway construction ...
and Mariënberg–Almelo railway lines. The current station building dates from 1962. The train services are operated by
Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; en, "Dutch Railways") is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. It is a Dutch state-owned company founded in 1938. The Dutch rail network is one of the busiest in the European Union, and the ...
and
Arriva
Arriva plc is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Sunderland, England.train services call at this station:
*1× per 2 hours express ''Intercity'' service: Amsterdam - Amersfoort - Hengelo - Osnabrück - Hanover - Berlin
*1× per hour express ''Intercity'' service: Schiphol - Amersfoort - Hengelo - Enschede
*1× per hour express ''Intercity'' service: The Hague - Utrecht - Amersfoort - Hengelo - Enschede
*2× per hour local ''Sprinter'' service: Apeldoorn - Deventer - Almelo (- Hengelo - Enschede) (1x per hour in evening and weekend; to Enschede during peak hours only)
*2× per hour local ''Sprinter'' service: Zwolle - Almelo - Hengelo - Enschede
*1× per hour local ''Stoptrein'' service: Almelo - Hardenberg (2× per hour during peak hours)
Bus services
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Syntus
Keolis Nederland is a public transport company operating bus and passenger train services in the Netherlands. Originally created as Syntus and owned by Connexxion, Keolis and Nederlandse Spoorwegen, since 2012 Keolis Nederland has been a 100% subs ...
'' Station - Hospital - Windmolenbroek - Station (Almelo South)
* 22 ''Syntus'' Station - Windmolenbroek - Hospital - Station (Almelo South)
* 23 ''Syntus'' Station - Schelfhorst - Sluitersveld - Station (Almelo North)
* 24 ''Syntus'' Station - Sluitersveld - Schelfhorst - Station (Almelo North)
* 25 ''Syntus'' Station - Aalderinkshoek (Almelo West)
* 26 ''Syntus'' Station - Twenteborg Hospital (Almelo South)
* 51 ''Syntus'' Vriezenveen - Almelo - Borne - Hengelo
* 64 ''Syntus'' Almelo - Harbrinkhoek - Geesteren - Tubbergen - Vasse - Ootmarssum - Rossum - Oldenzaal - Losser -
Overdinkel
Overdinkel is a village in the Twente region of the eastern Netherlands, in the municipality of Losser. It is named for the nearby river Dinkel. Its population in 2012 was 4,255. The territories of the Netherlands and the German ''Länder'' of N ...