Weesp–Leiden railway

Schiphollijn
Overview
Type	Heavy rail
System	Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Locale	North and South Holland
Termini	Weesp Leiden Centraal
Stations	9
Operation
Opened	1978
Owner	ProRail
Operator(s)	Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Technical
Track length	30 kilometres (19 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Route map Line from Amersfoort Line to Almere River Vecht 142.4 Weesp Amsterdam-Rhine Canal Line to Amsterdam Centraal 148.7 Diemen Zuid Line from Amsterdam Centraal 150.3 0.0 Duivendrecht Utrechtboog Line to Utrecht River Amstel 4.1 Amsterdam RAI 5.5 Amsterdam Zuid Line from Amsterdam Centraal Ringvaart 14.3 Schiphol 19.9 Hoofddorp HSL-Zuid to Rotterdam 24.3 Nieuw Vennep Ringvaart 34.7 Sassenheim (from December 2011) Line from Haarlem Leiden Centraal to Woerden Line to Den Haag

The Weesp–Leiden railway (Dutch: Schiphollijn) is a railway line in the Netherlands which runs between the cities of Weesp and Leiden; the line also passes through and serves Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

The first section of the Schiphollijn was opened on 20 December 1978 between Schiphol and Amsterdam Zuid. At the time, this section of railway was not connected to the rest of the Dutch railway network. This section of the Schiphollijn features a 6 kilometres (3.7 mi)-long tunnel, in which Schiphol railway station is located. When it was constructed, Schiphol was the only railway station in the Netherlands to be in-tunnel.

The line was extended in both directions in 1981 to Amsterdam RAI and Leiden Centraal; new stations were opened at Hoofddorp and Nieuw-Vennep.

In 1986, a connection to Amsterdam Centraal was completed: the Amsterdam–Schiphol railway. Stations were opened at Amsterdam Lelylaan, Amsterdam De Vlugtlaan and Amsterdam Sloterdijk. Amsterdam De Vlugtlaan was closed in 2000, after the opening of the Hemboog: a chord at Amsterdam Sloterdijk which connects Schiphol and the city of Zaandam.

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