HSL-Zuid
Sign in to saveThe HSL-Zuid () is a high-speed railway in the Netherlands running from the Amsterdam metropolitan area to the Belgian border, with connections to conventional railways to Breda and The Hague. Together with Belgium's HSL 4, it forms the Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway. The line allows speeds of up to and is used by both domestic and international services.
Key facts
- Rail line.name
- HSL-Zuid
- Rail line.image
- Hslbenelux.png
- Rail line.caption
- Route of the HSL-Zuid
- Rail line.locale
- North Holland, South Holland and North Brabant, Netherlands
- Rail line.open
- 7 September 2009
- Rail line.owner
- ProRail
- Rail line.operator
- Infraspeed
- Rail line.map_state
- collapsed
- Rail line.signalling
- ETCS Level 2
via Wikipedia infobox
~18 min read
Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Route
- Services
- Domestic trains
- International trains
- Benelux train
- Eurostar
- [[Fyra]]
- Travel times
- Fares and tickets
- Technical problems
- ETCS
- V250
- Discovery of cracks and speed restrictions
- Future
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
The HSL-Zuid () is a high-speed railway in the Netherlands running from the Amsterdam metropolitan area to the Belgian border, with connections to conventional railways to Breda and The Hague. Together with Belgium's HSL 4, it forms the Schiphol–Antwerp high-speed railway. The line allows speeds of up to and is used by both domestic and international services.
Initially planned to open in 2007, the HSL-Zuid entered public service on 7 September 2009. It is utilized by Intercity Direct and Eurostar trains, providing fast connections between cities such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris, and London. Although designed for high-speed travel, short sections near Rotterdam and Antwerp require trains to reduce speed due to conventional infrastructure. The line uses the electrification systems common to most northern European corridors along with European Train Control System signaling.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HSL-Zuid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.