Obdam is a

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 ...

Obdam Obdam () is a village and former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia. The municipality ceased to exist on 1 January 2007 when it merged with Wester-Koggenland to form the new municipa ...

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. The station opened in 1898, on the Hoorn - Heerhugowaard line. There are two tracks at this station, creating a

passing loop A passing loop (UK usage) or passing siding (North America) (also called a crossing loop, crossing place, refuge loop or, colloquially, a hole) is a place on a single line railway or tramway, often located at or near a station, where trains or ...

on the otherwise

single-track railway A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track. Single track is usually found on lesser-used rail lines, often branch lines, where the level of traffic is not high enough to justify the co ...

Train services

The following services currently call at Obdam: *2x per hour local service (''sprinter'') Hoorn - Alkmaar - Uitgeest - Haarlem - Amsterdam

Bus services

External links

NS website

Dutch public transport travel planner
Railway stations in North Holland Railway stations opened in 1898 Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in the 1890s {{Netherlands-railstation-stub