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Railway station in Abcoude, the Netherlands From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abcoude is a railway station located in Abcoude, Netherlands.
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Abcoude | |||||||||||||||
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Location | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 52°16′28″N 4°58′56″E | ||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Amsterdam–Arnhem railway | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | 18 December 1843 | ||||||||||||||
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The station is located on the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway between Amsterdam and Utrecht, and was opened on 18 December 1843. Previously, there were only two trains a day going to Abcoude. The line was doubled to 4 tracks in 2007 and the old station closed with a new station opening a few hundred metres to the north. The old station stood next to the Gein with the line crossing the river by a bridge which was barely higher than the river level. During the quadrupling of the line a new underpass was built to take the railway under the river. This new underpass begins just after the current station and emerges back at ground level a good distance past the original station buildings.
On 12 March 2015, a passenger train caught fire at the station and was evacuated. Twenty-one passengers had breathed in smoke but could resume their journey, one passenger excluding the train driver was taken to the hospital.[1]
The following services currently call at Abcoude:
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