Houten railway station

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Houten
Station statistics
Address Netherlands
Coordinates 52°02′04″N 5°10′04″E / 52.03444°N 5.16778°E / 52.03444; 5.16778Coordinates: 52°02′04″N 5°10′04″E / 52.03444°N 5.16778°E / 52.03444; 5.16778
Line(s) Utrecht–Boxtel railway
Services
Preceding station   Nederlandse Spoorwegen   Following station
NS Sprinter 6000
toward Tiel
NS Sprinter 16000
Location

Houten is a railway station located in Houten, Netherlands. The station was opened on 1 November 1868 and is located on the Utrecht–Boxtel railway and the Houten - Houten Castellum tram line which closed on 14 December 2008. The services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The station was closed between 1935 and 1982.

A 2005 ProRail survey estimated there were about 9,224 passengers using this station per day.

Original Station

The original station was the one opened in 1868. This closed in 1935.

Moving the Station

In August 2007, the station building was moved 150m north of its previous location, which was 600m south of the current station.

The building had to be moved to allow for the line to be quad-tracked from Utrecht to 's-Hertogenbosch, but the station building was part of Houten's past and it is the last building of its type on this line.

Train service

The following services currently call at Houten:

  • 2x per hour local service (stoptrein) Utrecht - Geldermalsen - Tiel
  • 2x per hour local service (sprinter) Utrecht - Geldermalsen - 's-Hertogenbosch

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