The Gouda–Den Haag railway is a heavily used

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in the

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, running from

Gouda railway station Gouda is a railway station in Gouda, Netherlands. The station opened on 21 May 1855 when the Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij (Dutch Rijn Railway Company) opened the Utrecht–Rotterdam railway. The Gouda–Den Haag railway to The Hague w ...

to Den Haag Centraal railway station, passing through

Zoetermeer railway station Zoetermeer is a railway station located in Zoetermeer, Netherlands. The station was opened in 1973, and is located on the Gouda–Den Haag railway. The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS; ; en, ...

. It was opened in 1870.

Stations

The main interchange stations on the Gouda–Den Haag railway are: * Gouda: to

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

and

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

Zoetermeer Zoetermeer () is a city in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950. By 2013 this had grown to 123,328 ...

: to

RandstadRail RandstadRail () is a light rail network in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area in the west of the Netherlands that is jointly operated by HTM Personenvervoer (HTM) and Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram (RET). It connects the cities of Rotte ...

light rail network * Den Haag Centraal: to Rotterdam,

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