Elst–Dordrecht railway

Elst–Dordrecht railway
Overview
Status Operational
Locale The Netherlands
Termini Elst railway station
Dordrecht railway station
Operation
Opened 1882 - 1885
Operator(s) Nederlandse Spoorwegen,
Arriva
Technical
Line length 92.8 km (57.7 mi)
No. of tracks Double track (Vork–Kesteren,
Wadenoijen–Geldermalsen,
Dordrecht Stadspolders–Dordrecht)
Single track (Elst–Vork,
Kesteren–Wadenoijen,
Geldermalsen–Dordrecht Stadspolders)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification 1.5 kV DC (Tiel–Dordrecht)
Route map

The Elst–Dordrecht railway is a railway line in the Netherlands running from Elst to Dordrecht, passing through Tiel, Geldermalsen and Gorinchem. It is also called the Betuwelijn ("Betuwe" line). MerwedeLingelijn is the name of the western part between Dordrecht and Geldermalsen. It is operated by Arriva. (Tiel - Elst as part of the service Tiel - Arnhem) and Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Geldermalsen - Tiel as part of the service Utrecht - Tiel). The railway connects to the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway in Elst. There were two connections to the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway in the past from the junction near Vork station; one to Elst and towards Nijmegen connecting near Ressen. The Nijmegen junction was used until 1990 and torn down during construction of the Betuweroute in order of creating a junction between the Betuweroute from Rotterdam and the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway towards both Arnhem and Nijmegen.

Timeline

Future

In future new stations will be added.

These are:

A quarter hourly service is operated between Gorinchem and Dordrecht after creating passing loops at Dordrecht Stadspolders and Boven-Hardinxveld.

Train services

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