The Den Dolder–Baarn railway is a

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in the province of

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running from

Den Dolder Den Dolder is a village in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is a part of the municipality of Zeist, and lies about 4 km northeast of Bilthoven. Den Dolder has a railway station on the route between Amersfoort and Utrecht and is best known fo ...

Baarn Baarn () is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, near Hilversum in the province of Utrecht. The municipality of Baarn The municipality of Baarn consists of the following towns: Baarn, Eembrugge, Lage Vuursche. The town of Baarn Ba ...

, passing through Soest. It is also called the Sticht Line (

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: ''Stichtse lijn''). Opened in 1898 in order to link Baarn with the city of

, it is operated by

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and belongs to

ProRail ProRail () is a Dutch government organisation responsible for the maintenance and extension of the national railway network infrastructure (not the metro or tram), the allocation of rail capacity, and controlling rail traffic. Prorail is a part o ...

. The railway line is 11 km long and was electrified in 1948. The line is

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, with a

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at Soest station. The line has 5 stations:

, Soest Zuid, Soest,

Soestdijk Soestdijk () is a neighbourhood of Soest and a hamlet in the municipality of Baarn. Both are part of the province of Utrecht, Netherlands. The village gives its name to Paleis Soestdijk, which from 1937 to 2004 was the residence of Princess and ...

and

. There used to be two more stations on the line: ''De Paltz'' (1898-1933) and ''Baan Buurtstation'' (1898-1948), the original terminus of this line. After the line was electrified, the line was extended to the other existing Baarn station (which has been the current terminus of this line ever since).

Service

Currently one service operates over the line:

Gallery

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