Houten Castellum is a railway station located in Houten

Houten

Houten is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht. The expected population in 2015 will be 50,000. The municipality consists of the following towns:* Houten * 't Goy * Schalkwijk...

, 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 was opened on 8 January 2001 and is located on the Utrecht–Boxtel railway

Utrecht–Boxtel railway

The Utrecht–Boxtel railway is an important railway line in the Netherlands running from Utrecht to Boxtel, passing through Geldermalsen and Boxtel. The line was opened between 1868 and 1870...

 and was on the Houten - Houten Castellum tram line which closed on the 14th December 2008. The services are operated by 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 original station opened on 8 January 2001 and closed on 14 December 2008. During this time the service was operated by a tram from Hannover on loan to Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The new station reopened on 12 December 2010.

Current Train Services

The following services call at Houten Castellum:

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

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