Schiphol railway station
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| Code | Shl |
| Opened | 1978 |
| Platform tracks | 6 |
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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.
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[edit] Services
There are about seven trains an hour to Amsterdam Central Station, and frequent services to the rest of the country as well. These include intercity services to The Hague, Rotterdam, Eindhoven as well as to the northern and eastern parts of the country through Amersfoort.
A new flyover also provides direct connections to Utrecht and the south of the country. This so-called Utrechtboog opened on March 12th, 2006. It connects two existing lines (Utrecht-Amsterdam Central Station and Schiphol-Weesp) and is located more or less between the stations Amsterdam RAI and Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA. It replaces the interchange at Duivendrecht station.
An hourly night train connects Schiphol with Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Delft, Leiden and The Hague between one and five in the morning.
Thalys International operates a TGV-like rail service between Amsterdam, Schiphol, The Hague, Rotterdam, Berchem Rail Station (Antwerp), Brussels South Station and the Gare du Nord in Paris. It runs at high speed between Brussels and Paris, and from 2008 also between Antwerp and Schiphol (over the new HSL-Zuid).
Railway Leiden Centraal to Schiphol (part of line 10), with stations (municipalities in bold) and official station abbreviations:
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Railway Schiphol to Amsterdam Centraal (part of line 10), with stations (municipalities in bold) and official station abbreviations:
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[edit] Other facilities
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.
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- Schiphol railway station is at coordinates Coordinates:
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toward Den Haag Centraal
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toward Amsterdam Centraal
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toward Den Haag HS
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10 |
toward Amsterdam Centraal
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| Terminus | 22 |
toward Utrecht Centraal
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Terminus
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40 |
toward Amersfoort
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