Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway

Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway
Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway
	A Benelux train at Kapellen in 2011
Overview
Status	Operational
Locale	Netherlands and Belgium
Termini	Antwerpen-Centraal railway station; Lage Zwaluwe railway station;
Service
Operator(s)	National Railway Company of Belgium, ; Nederlandse Spoorwegen
History
Opened	1854-1876
Technical
Line length	64 km (40 mi)
Number of tracks	double track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	3 kV DC (Antwerpen–Essen); 1.5 kV DC (Essen–Lage Zwaluwe)
Route map
	Belgian railway line 25
	to Brussels
Antwerp-Noorderdokken
	33.2
	31.2
	Belgium
	Netherlands
	Breda–Rotterdam railway
	to Breda
	Breda–Rotterdam railway
	to Rotterdam

The Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway (railway line 12 in the Belgian numbering plan) is an international railway line running from Antwerp in Belgium to Lage Zwaluwe in the Netherlands. The line was opened between 1854 and 1876. The opening of the high speed lines HSL 4 and HSL-Zuid in 2009 has decreased its importance for international passenger traffic. there is still a local international NMBS S32 train from Roosendaal to Puurs via Antwerp central once an hour along with a few other Belgian domestic IC/ and a second hourly S32 but only as far as Essen station.

Stations

The main interchange stations on the Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway are:

Antwerpen-Centraal railway station: to Brussels, Ghent, Herentals and Hasselt
Roosendaal: to Vlissingen and Breda
Lage Zwaluwe: to Dordrecht, Rotterdam and Breda

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