Franeker railway station
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Franeker is a railway station located in Franeker
Franeker
Franeker is one of the eleven historical cities of Friesland and capital of the municipality of Franekeradeel. It is located about 20 km west of Leeuwarden on the Van Harinxma Canal. As of 1 January 2006, it had 12,996 inhabitants. The city is famous for the Eisinga Planetarium from around...

, The Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. The station was opened on 27 October 1863 and is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway
Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway
The Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway is a railway line in the Netherlands running from the port of Harlingen to Nieuweschans, passing through Leeuwarden and Groningen. The line was opened between 1863 and 1868. It is also known as the Staatslijn "B"...

 between Harlingen and Leeuwarden. The station is operated by Arriva
Arriva
Arriva plc is a multinational public transport company owned by Deutsche Bahn and headquartered in Sunderland, United Kingdom. It has bus, coach, train, tram and waterbus operations in 12 countries across Europe, employs more than 47,500 people and services over 1.5 billion passenger journeys each...

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Train service

The following services currently call at Franeker:
  • 2x per hour local service (stoptrein) Harlingen Haven - Leeuwarden

Bus services

  • 33 - Franeker - Franeker Station - Tzum
    Tzum
    Tzum is a small village in Franekeradeel in the province Friesland of the Netherlands and has about 1167 inhabitants .Reinier van Tzum, one of the VOC Opperhoofden in Japan, was born here.-External links:*...

     - Winsum - Oosterlittens - Wieuwerd - Bozum
    Bozum
    Bozum may refer to:* Bozum, Azerbaijan* Bozum , Netherlands...

     - Scharnegotum - Sneek
    Sneek
    Sneek is a city southwest of Leeuwarden and seat of the former municipality of Sneek in the province of Friesland . As for 2011 it is part of the municipality Súdwest Fryslân...

  • 36 - Franeker - Franeker Station - Wintmarsum
  • 75 - Franeker Station - Franeker - Harlingen


Services are run by Connexxion
Connexxion
Connexxion is the largest public transport bus company in the Netherlands, operating in the west, middle, east and far northern part of the country. It was formed in 1999 as result of a fusion between the public transport companies NZH, ZWN, Midnet and Oostnet. Its name is a mutation of the French...

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