Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij

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Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij (NRS)

Platform of the Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij in Utrecht in 1866, later Utrecht CS

Overview

Headquarters

Utrecht

Locale

The Netherlands

Dates of operation

1845–1890

Technical

Track gauge

1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in) standard gauge

Previous gauge

1,945 mm (6 ft 49⁄16 in)

Length

118 km (73 mi) constructed, 240 km (150 mi) operated

Route map
Utrecht - Rotterdam Gouda - The Hague Amsterdam - Emmerik Harmelen - Breukelen Zevenaar - Cleves Woerden - Leiden

The Dutch Rhenish Railway or Dutch–Rhenish Railway (Dutch: 'Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg' or Nederlandsche Rhijn-Spoorweg) was a Dutch railway company active from 1845 until 1890.

History

The Dutch Rhenish Railway Company Limited was founded in Amsterdam on 3 July 1845^[1] to take over the state-run Rhenish Railway, which was losing money. The majority of the shareholders were British.^[2] In or shortly after 1857, James Staats Forbes was appointed general manager for five years. He remained a permanent adviser to the company until its concession expired and it was nationalised in 1890.^[3] The Dutch businessman and politician Hendrik Adriaan van Beuningen started his career at DRR as a clerk, but was soon promoted to freight transport manager.^{[citation needed]}

Locomotive number 107, Sharp Stewart 3563/1889, is preserved in the Utrecht Railway Museum.^[4]

Lines

Lines built and operated by the Dutch Rhenish Railway include:

The Utrecht – Rotterdam line, opened in 1855^[5]
The extension of the Rhenish Railway to Germany, opened in 1856
The Zevenaar – Cleves line, opened in 1865
The Harmelen – Breukelen line, opened in 1869
The Gouda – The Hague line, opened in 1870.

References

^ Frederick J. Teggart (1895). Catalogue of the Hopkins Railway Library. Palo Alto, CA: Leland Stanford Junior University. p. 132.
^ Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. (1995). State versus Private Enterprise in Railway Building in the Netherlands, 1838-1938. Business and Economic History 24 (1): 186–193. Accessed September 2013^{[dead link‍]}.
^ Charles Welch (2004). Forbes, James Staats (1823–1904). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33192.
^ James Waite ([n.d.]). Narrow Gauge Steam Railways in Holland. The International Steam Pages. Accessed September 2013 fdzv.
^ [s.n.] (1 January 1855). The opening of the Dutch Rhenish railway at a temporary station in Rotterdam. Illustrated London News. Accessed September 2013 ^{[dead link‍]}.

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