Nijmegen is a railway station located in Nijmegen, 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 9 August 1865 and is located on the Tilburg–Nijmegen railway

Tilburg–Nijmegen railway

The Tilburg–Nijmegen railway is an important railway line in the Netherlands running from Tilburg to Nijmegen, passing through 's-Hertogenbosch. The line was opened in 1881.-Stations:The main interchange stations on the Tilburg–Nijmegen railway are:...

, Nijmegen–Venlo railway and the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway

Arnhem–Nijmegen railway

The Arnhem–Nijmegen railway is an important railway line in the Netherlands running from Arnhem to Nijmegen, passing through Elst. The line was opened in 1879...

. It was extensively rebuilt after the war since the original station was severely damaged by a US bombing raid in February 1944 and during Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden

Operation Market Garden was an unsuccessful Allied military operation, fought in the Netherlands and Germany in the Second World War. It was the largest airborne operation up to that time....

 in September 1944. Until 1991 there was a line into Germany from here to Kleve

Kleve

Kleve , is a town in the Lower Rhine region of northwestern Germany near the Dutch border and the River Rhine. From the 11th century onwards, Kleve was capital of a county and later a duchy...

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The train 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...

 and Veolia. The station is a central station for the whole area and is a busy interchange station.

Train services

Several intercity trains and local trains call at Nijmegen:

• 2 hourly intercity services Den Helder - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Nijmegen
• 2 hourly intercity services Schiphol - Utrecht - Nijmegen
• 2 hourly intercity services Zwolle - Nijmegen - Roosendaal
• 2 hourly local services (stoptrein) Nijmegen - 's-Hertogenbosch
• 2 hourly local services (sprinter) Nijmegen - Arnhem - Zutphen
• 2 hourly local services (stoptrein) Nijmegen - Venlo - Roermond
• 2 hourly local services (stoptrein) Nijmegen - Venray (peak hours only)