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Voorburg railway station

Railway station in the Netherlands

Field	Value
name	Voorburg
style	NS
image	Voorbuerg Station - perrons.jpg
country	Netherlands
coordinates
line	Gouda–Den Haag railway
opened	1870
services	{{Adjacent stations	system1=Nederlandse Spoorwegen
line1	Sprinter 6000	left1=Den Haag Centraal	right1=Den Haag Ypenburg
line2	Sprinter 6800	left2=Den Haag Centraal	right2=Den Haag Ypenburg
line3	Sprinter 6900	left3=Den Haag Centraal	right3=Den Haag Ypenburg
map_type	Netherlands Randstad ZW#Netherlands

Voorburg is a railway station located in Voorburg, Netherlands on the Gouda–Den Haag railway. The station was opened on 1 May 1870 and The train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. The station also has a bus terminal, serving HTM routes 23, 26, and 28, as well as EBS routes 45 and 46.

Location and history

Station Voorburg is situated in the most Southern part of the historic town center of Voorburg. It parallels motorway A12 which lies next to the railway at this point. Both motorway and railway-tracks/platform are elevated on long viaducts which spans different roads, streets and Canal de Vliet. In the Western direction starts the rail yard which end at station Den Haag Centraal.

Hofwijck

Next to the station lies Hofwijck mansion which at present houses a museum of the town history and of its former owners Christiaan and Constantijn Huygens. Before the railway, motorway and station were built the area was a part of the then much bigger Hofwijck estate.

Stationbuilding

The present elevated building was the last station designed by Koen van der Gaast. Its construction started by 1986. Before there was only a little building designed by A.W. van Erkel.

Train services

The following services currently call at Voorburg:

2x per hour local service (sprinter) The Hague - Gouda - Utrecht
2x per hour local service (sprinter) The Hague - Gouda Goverwelle

Bus services

These services departs from street level, on the north side of the station from the bus terminal.

HTM Services

Bus 23 (Zwarte Pad - HMC Bronovo - Station Laan van NOI - Station Voorburg - Station Rijswijk - Colijnplein - Leyenburg)
Bus 26 (Kijkduin - Leyenburg - Station Den Haag Moerwijk - Station Den Haag HS - Station Voorburg)
Bus 28 (Norfolk - World Forum - Vredepaleis - Centrum - Den Haag Centraal - Station Voorburg)

EBS Services

Bus 46 (Station Voorschoten - Leidschendam - Station Leidschendam-Voorburg - Station Voorburg - Den Haag Centraal)
Bus 45 (Station Leiden Centraal - Station Leiden Lammenschans - Voorschoten - Leidschendam - Station Leidschendam-Voorburg - Station Voorburg - Den Haag Centraal)

References

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