Schiphol railway station

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Schiphol railway station is a major passenger station located directly beneath the terminal complex of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and operated by the Dutch national railway company, Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

The station is accessible via six escalators located on the main concourse of the airport. There are about seven trains an hour to Amsterdam Central Station, and frequent service through Leiden and Duivendrecht to the rest of the country as well.

The Utrechtboog is a new connection that opened on March 12th, 2006. It is a fly-over connecting two existing lines located between the stations Amsterdam RAI and Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA. The new train services do not stop at these two stations, but provide a connection from Schiphol and Amsterdam Zuid at the Zuidas area (the southern axis of Amsterdam) directly with Utrecht, and on to Eindhoven. It surpasses the crossing at Duivendrecht, making it unnecessary to change trains as well as providing a faster connection.

The hourly night train connects Schiphol with Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Delft, Leiden and The Hague in the early hours.

Thalys International operates a TGV rail service between Amsterdam, Schiphol, The Hague HS, Rotterdam, Berchem Rail Station (Antwerp), Midi Rail Station (Brussels) and Gare du Nord in Paris. It is high speed between Brussels and Paris.

Schiphol is a stop on the HSL-Zuid, operational from 2007.

Schiphol Plaza is the shopping center before customs, hence not only for air travellers, but also for people who just change train here, etcetera. There is a medium-sized supermarket, Food Village, that is open until midnight seven days a week. Soft-drink and candy machines are available on the platforms, as in most Dutch train stations.

Railway Leiden Centraal to Schiphol (part of line 10), with stations (municipalities in bold) and official station abbreviations: