railway station
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of
Nijmegen
Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...
in
Gelderland
Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...
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Netherlands
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. It was opened on 9 August 1865 and is located on the
Tilburg–Nijmegen railway
The Tilburg–Nijmegen railway is an important railway line in the Netherlands running from Tilburg to Nijmegen, passing through 's-Hertogenbosch. The line was opened in 1881.
Stations
The main interchange stations on the Tilburg–Nijmegen rail ...
,
Nijmegen–Venlo railway
The Nijmegen–Venlo railway, also called Maaslijn, is a railway line in the Netherlands running from Nijmegen to Venlo, passing through Boxmeer and Venray. The line was opened in 1883. Between 2006 and 2016, passenger transport on the line was e ...
and the
Arnhem–Nijmegen railway
The Arnhem–Nijmegen railway is an important railway line in the Netherlands running from Arnhem to Nijmegen, passing through Elst. The line was opened in 1879. It crosses two branches of the river Rhine: the Nederrijn in Arnhem, and the Waal i ...
. It was extensively rebuilt after the war since the original station was severely damaged by a US bombing raid in February 1944 and during
Operation Market Garden
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in September 1944. Until 1991 there was a line into
Germany
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from here to
Kleve
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.
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:
*Express services:
**''Intercity'': Den Helder - Alkmaar - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Arnhem - Nijmegen
**''Intercity'': Schiphol Airport - Utrecht - Arnhem - Nijmegen
**''Intercity'': Zwolle - Deventer - Arnhem - Nijmegen Oss - 's-Hertogenbosch - Breda - Roosendaal
*Local services:
**''Sprinter'': Arnhem - Nijmegen - Oss - 's-Hertogenbosch - Breda - Dordrecht
**''Sprinter'': Zutphen - Arnhem - Nijmegen (- Wijchen)
**''Stoptrein'': Nijmegen - Venlo - Roermond
**''Stoptrein'': Nijmegen - Venray
Bus services
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, legally ''Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij Naamloze vennootschap, N.V.'' (literal translation: Royal Aviation Company Plc.), is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM is headquartered in Amstelveen, with i ...
operates a bus from the train station to
Schiphol Airport
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KLM
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. Retrieved on October 29, 2016.
There is also an express bus service SB 58, operated by the German company
NIAG
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Kleve
Kleve (; traditional en, Cleves ; nl, Kleef; french: Clèves; es, Cléveris; la, Clivia; Low Rhenish: ''Kleff'') is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century ...
OV-chipkaart
The OV-chipkaart (short for ''openbaar vervoer chipkaart'', meaning ''public transport chipcard'') is a contactless smart card system used for all public transport in the Netherlands. First introduced in the Rotterdam Metro in April 2005, it has s ...
s and German
Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr
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tickets on the whole length of the route.
Breng Breng is the name of a public transportation concept in the Stadsregio Arnhem–Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
Novio (a branch of Connexxion
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is the main operator of local and regional bus services in the region, while
Arriva
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Regions
* Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium
* Limburg (Netherlands), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands
* Diocese of Limburg, Roman Catholic Diocese in ...