Stavoren railway station
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Stavoren is a terminus railway station in Stavoren
Stavoren
Stavoren is a small town on the coast of the IJsselmeer, about 5 km south of Hindeloopen. It lies within the municipality of Súdwest-Fryslân. Stavoren was granted city rights in 1118, making it the oldest city in Friesland...

, 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 opened on 8 November 1885 and is the southern terminus of the Leeuwarden–Stavoren railway. The services are 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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Major destinations

For most places in the Netherlands travel to Leeuwarden. From Stavoren there is a boat service to Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen
Enkhuizen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland and the region of West-Frisia.Enkhuizen was one of the harbour-towns of the VOC, just like Hoorn and Amsterdam, from where overseas trade with the East Indies was conducted. It received city rights in 1355...

, see veerboot.info.

Train service

The following services calls at Stavoren:
  • 1x per hour local service (stoptrein) Leeuwarden - Sneek - Stavoren

Accident

On 25 July 2010 a maintenance train collided with a buffer stop at the station. The train rammed a small shop, passed through it and stopped at the square behind it. Only two people were injured, out of four people on the train. The accident happened late at night, when passenger services had already finished. The cause is being investigated. Aerial photographs of the accident show several wagons dispersed across the platform, indicating the collision took place at high speed.

Bus service

  • 103 - Stavoren - Warns - Bakhuizen - Hemelum
    Hemelum
    - Convent :The first information about Hemelum is from 1180. Hemelum had a stins, some states and a convent. The nunnery of Benedictine Order was one of the first convents at Friesland. outside nuns lived at the convent also Beguines...

    . 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...

    , 1x per hour Monday to Saturday
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