Categories
Stations are divided into three categories based upon the service they receive. These are, in order of decreasing importance:
- Intercity stations, where all trains (except, in some cases, international services) call.
- The remaining stations, where only local trains (Sprinters) call.
On many lines, however, there may be only two categories of trains (for example, intercity and local), or just one (local). Furthermore, some local trains – despite being called stoptreinen – do not stop at all stations: two examples are the services from Groningen to Roodeschool and from Tiel to Arnhem.
On the route diagrams printed at the top of station departure sheets (see this example), intercity stations and semi-fast train stations are indicated by the letters IC and S respectively.
ProRail classify stations into 5 categories based upon the facilities available. The categories are (in English), Cathedral, Mega, Plus, Basic and Stop.
To indicate about what station your dealing with there are a dew names like:
- Centraal: Most important station
- Centrum: Most important station of that specific town/city or The middle one of stations if there are also a zuid or noord station(or other name)
- Zuid: South Station
- Noord: North
- Oost: East
- West: West
- a dash - : means that we speak of a station situated in two townships one of them before and one after the dash. Like: Krommenie-Assendelft
Read more about this topic: Railway Stations In The Netherlands
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