Hilversum Noord is a railway station in the town of Hilversum

Hilversum

is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called "'t Gooi", it is the largest town in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller villages...

, the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. Opened on 24 May 1974, Hilversum Noord is located on the Amsterdam–Zutphen railway - also called the Gooilijn

Gooilijn

The Amsterdam–Zutphen railway is a railway line in the Netherlands - running from Amsterdam to Zutphen; the line passes through the towns Hilversum, Amersfoort and Apeldoorn...

 - north of the town centre, serving Media Park

Media Park (Hilversum)

Media Park is a large business park in Hilversum, the Netherlands and is home to a number of Dutch broadcasting companies, including the national public broadcaster NPO....

, where most Dutch television and radio broadcasters are located. The station is approximately 27 km (16.8 mi) from Amsterdam Centraal. Before 1989, the station was named Hilversum NOS: a reference to the public broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

The Nederlandse Omroep Stichting , English: Netherlands Broadcasting Foundation, is one of the broadcasters in the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system...

 (more commonly referred to as NOS).

Services

The Dutch operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Nederlandse Spoorwegen , or NS, is the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands.Its trains operate over the tracks of the Dutch national railinfrastructure, operated by ProRail, which was split off from NS in 2003...

 operates the following services from Hilversum Noord:

• two local service (stoptrein) trains per hour, running between Utrecht Centraal
  Utrecht Centraal railway station
  Utrecht Centraal is the central railway station for the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. It is the largest railway station in the Netherlands in terms of size, with fourteen platforms With Utrecht being located centrally in the Netherlands, Utrecht Centraal is also the largest station in terms...
  
   and Leiden Centraal
  Leiden Centraal railway station
  Leiden Centraal is the main railway station in Leiden, a city in the Netherlands.-History:Leiden Centraal station opened on 17 August 1842 as the southern terminal of the first expansion of the Old Line from Haarlem. The original building was replaced by a new one, designed by D.A.N. Margadant, in...
  
   (via Hilversum
  Hilversum railway station
  Hilversum is a railway station in Hilversum, the Netherlands. It is located approximately southeast of Amsterdam. It is on the Amsterdam - Hilversum - Amersfoort main line, with a branch to Utrecht. There are two other stations in Hilversum: Hilversum Noord to the north, and Hilversum Sportpark to...
  
  , Amsterdam Zuid and Schiphol); and
• two Sprinter trains per hour, which run between Amsterdam Centraal and Amersfoort Vathorst
  Amersfoort Vathorst railway station
  Amersfoort Vathorst is a railway station on the Utrecht–Kampen railway between Amersfoort and Zwolle. It is located in north Amersfoort, the Netherlands. The station is operated by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen . The station opened 28 May 2006. The station has 3 tracks, 1 of which is for terminating...
  
  .