Timetables of Public Transport in the Netherlands

Timetables of Public Transport in the Netherlands

Public transport timetables are partly available:

Public Transport Train Timetables in the Netherlands

The Spoorboekje is a collection of time tables in the form of pdf files, covering a year, but with intermediate renewal when needed (the physical timetable book was abolished in December 2010). It covers all operators of rail transport in the Netherlands, except those of heritage railways, it gives the departure times (and sometimes arrival times), but not the tracks. For international trains to and from the Netherlands, for the data for the parts abroad only a summary is given.

It provides tables with services in columns, arranged by timetable number and direction (a and b). A train route can involve multiple timetable numbers, an equal train service number indicates that columns in two tables refer to the same train.

For train services which do not operate daily throughout the year there are footnotes explaining the whole set of days of the year on which it operates.

Public Transport Bus, Tram and Metro Time Tables in the Netherlands

PDF files with timetables (sometimes many small files, sometimes a few large ones) are available on the sites of several operators. The tables are arranged similarly to the Spoorboekje, except that for each line and direction there are three separate tables: for Monday-Friday, for Saturday, and for Sunday. Also, they show the times for selected stops only. Some operators only provide for reading the tables on the screen, not for downloading them. A workaround is using PrintScreen, but this is cumbersome if one wants to download many pages. In at least one case the pdf file is apparently prepared for being printed only, not for reading from the screen: the tables are rotated. Not only are some screens not easy to rotate, also the tables are often wider than high, like a screen, making rotation less desirable. Thus every time the file is loaded the rotate function has to be applied.

Also paper leaflets or small booklets with the timetable of a single line or a few lines are often available free of charge, and larger booklets are often for sale.

Toilets on Public Transport in the Netherlands

Most trains and some ferries have a toilet, while buses, trams and metros do not.