Boxtel railway station is located in

Boxtel Boxtel () is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands. The name derives from Buchestelle and is presumably a combination of 'stelle' (Dutch for stable, safe place) and (deer) buck.2019. Etymologiebank.Nl. Accessed April 27 2019 This i ...

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. The station was opened on 1 May 1865 and is located on the

Breda–Eindhoven railway The Breda–Eindhoven railway is an important railway line in the Netherlands running from Breda railway station to Eindhoven railway station, passing through Tilburg railway station and Boxtel railway station. The line was opened between 1863 an ...

(between Tilburg and Eindhoven) and the

Utrecht–Boxtel railway The Utrecht–Boxtel railway is an important railway in the Netherlands running from Utrecht Centraal station to Boxtel station, passing through Geldermalsen station and 's-Hertogenbosch station. The line was opened between 1868 and 1870. It i ...

. The station is currently operated by

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. Boxtel is an interchange station for Stoptreinen (trains stopping at every station) in

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. There are services meeting in 3 different directions. The station was majorly rebuilt from 1998, opening on 29 September 2000 as part of quadrupling of the Eindhoven to Boxtel line with a second island platform added."Boxtel Station Rebuilt" ''

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'' issue 61 January 2001 page 46 The station lies at the start of the former Boxtel–Wesel railway.

Destinations

These are some of the destinations that are possible to reach from Boxtel:

Tilburg Tilburg () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern province of North Brabant. With a population of 222,601 (1 July 2021), it is the second-largest city or municipality in North Brabant after Eindhoven and the seventh-larg ...

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Helmond Helmond (; called ''Héllemond'' in the local dialect) is a city and municipality in the Metropoolregio Eindhoven of the province of North Brabant in the Southern Netherlands. Helmond is home to several textile and metal companies. The Vlisco fa ...

, Deurne and

's-Hertogenbosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...

. The nearest major stations where all trains stop are: *

Eindhoven railway station Eindhoven Centraal railway station is the main railway station in Eindhoven in North Brabant, Netherlands. It is the busiest station outside the Randstad area and an important station in the southern part of The Netherlands. History The station ...

- for services to the south and east *

's-Hertogenbosch railway station s-Hertogenbosch () is a railway station located in 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant, Netherlands. The station and all services operating from it are run by Nederlandse Spoorwegen, the national Dutch train operating company. History 's-Hertogenbo ...

- for services to the north and east *

Tilburg railway station Tilburg railway station is a railway station located in Tilburg in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. The station was opened on 5 October 1863 and is located on the Breda–Eindhoven railway and Tilburg–Nijmegen railway. The train servi ...

- for services to the west and north

Train services

The following services currently call at Boxtel: *2x per hour local services (''stoptrein'') Tilburg Universiteit - Eindhoven *2x per hour local services (''stoptrein'') 's-Hertogenbosch - Eindhoven - Deurne

Bus services

*203 - 's-Hertogenbosch - Boxtel - Liempde *204 - Best - Sint Oedenrode - Boxtel - Schijndel *299 - Oirschot - Boxtel - Sint Michielsgestel

References

External links

NS website

Dutch Public Transport journey planner
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