Railway Lines
Amsterdam Centraal is at the start of many railway lines:
- Amsterdam–Rotterdam railway also known as the Oude Lijn via Haarlem, Leiden and Den Haag
- Nieuwediep–Amsterdam railway also known as the Staatslijn K from Den Helder to Amsterdam via Alkmaar and Uitgeest
- Amsterdam-Zutphen railway also known as the Oosterspoorweg via Hilversum, Amersfoort and Apeldoorn
- Amsterdam-Elten railway also known as the Rhijnspoorweg via Utrecht and Arnhem
- Amsterdam-Schiphol railway also known as the Westtak Ringspoorbaan
Read more about this topic: Amsterdam Centraal Railway Station
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“It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.”
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