Hoogkarspel railway station
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Hoogkarspel is a railway station in Hoogkarspel
Hoogkarspel
Hoogkarspel is a village in the municipality Drechterland, located in the north west of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia....

, 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...

. The station opened on the 6th June 1885 and is located between Hoorn and Enkhuizen. The station is on the Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway
Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway
The Zaandam–Enkhuizen railway is a railway line in the Netherlands running from Zaandam to Enkhuizen, passing through Purmerend and Hoorn. The line was opened between 1884 and 1885 by the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij.-Stations:...

. The station and services are operated 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...

. The current station building dates from 1965.

Train services

The following services currently call at Hoogkarspel:
  • 2x per hour intercity service Enkhuizen - Hoorn - Amsterdam
  • 2x per hour intercity service Enkhuizen - Hoorn - Amsterdam (peak hours)

Bus service

Bus Service Operator From To Via Frequency Notes
Connexxion
138 Connexxion
Connexxion
Connexxion is the largest public transport bus company in the Netherlands, operating in the west, middle, east and far northern part of the country. It was formed in 1999 as result of a fusion between the public transport companies NZH, ZWN, Midnet and Oostnet. Its name is a mutation of the French...

Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.Enkhuizen was one of the harbour-towns of the VOC, just like Hoorn and Amsterdam, from where overseas trade with the East Indies was conducted. It received city rights in 1355...

, Station NS
Hem Town Centre, Enkhuizen Noord (Flosbeugel), Bovenkarspel
Bovenkarspel
Bovenkarspel is a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Until 1979, it was a separate municipality.-Legionella outbreak:...

, Grootebroek
Grootebroek
Grootebroek is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is located in the municipality of Stede Broec.Grootebroek was a separate municipality until 1979....

, Lutjebroek
Lutjebroek
Lutjebroek is a village in the Netherlands. It is part of the municipality of Stede Broec. Lutjebroek has a population of just over 2000 people.In colloquial Dutch, Lutjebroek has become synonymous with "any insignificant speck on the map"...

, Hoogkarspel
Hoogkarspel
Hoogkarspel is a village in the municipality Drechterland, located in the north west of the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia....

, Venhuizen
Venhuizen
Venhuizen is a town in the north-western Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia, in the municipality of Drechterland. Venhuizen also was a municipality until 1 January 2006, when the municipality was combined with the existing municipality of Drechterland...

1 or 2x per hour 4 journeys per day to Hem, other journeys terminate in Hoogkarspel or Venhuizen


All services operate to Hoogkarspel, Julianastraat, which is a short walk from the station along the Nieuwestraat.
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