Betuweroute
Sign in to saveThe Betuweroute is a double track freight railway between Rotterdam and Germany. is the official name, after the Betuwe area through which the route passes. The line is popularly called Betuwelijn, after an older local rail line in the same region. The line extends into Germany as the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway, and it is part of Project 5 of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
Key facts
- Rail line.name
- Betuweroute
- Rail line.image
- Niederlande und Betuwe 4.svg
- Rail line.caption
- Route (red) of the Betuweroute
- Rail line.image_width
- 260px
- Rail line.type
- Freight railway
- Rail line.locale
- South Holland and Gelderland,
- Rail line.owner
- ProRail
- Rail line.open
- 16 June 2007
- Rail line.electrification
- 25 kV AC| Kijfhoek yard: 1.5kV DC
- Rail line.signalling
- ETCS Level 2 Kijfhoek yard: ETCS Level 1 and ATB-EG
- Rail line.linelength_km
- 159
- Rail line.map_state
- collapsed
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Route
- Infrastructure
- Specifications and features
- Use
- Controversy
- Municipalities along Betuweroute
- See also
- References
- External links
The Betuweroute is a double track freight railway between Rotterdam and Germany. is the official name, after the Betuwe area through which the route passes. The line is popularly called Betuwelijn, after an older local rail line in the same region. The line extends into Germany as the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway, and it is part of Project 5 of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
==History== thumb|left|Map of the Betuweroute In 1985 the Van Bonde Commission began to investigate the future of west–east transport. The main advocate of the proposed line was the then minister Neelie Kroes, later Commissioner in the European Union until 2014. In 1992 the German and Dutch governments signed the Treaty of Warnemünde, which addressed enhancing rail traffic and focused on the tracks from Amsterdam and Rotterdam to Duisburg. The original plan was for three branch rail lines towards Germany. The northern branch via Oldenzaal was abandoned in 1999 and the southern branch via Venlo was abandoned in 2004. Also in 2004, the courts forbade the construction of a large logistics centre near the village of Valburg.