Spelling Conventions
The practice in the Netherlands is to write the names of stations serving two communities with a hyphen (corresponding to "and") between the two names, thus: Beek-Elsloo; and to use a space where the second term specifies one of two or more stations serving a city or town, thus: Alkmaar Noord.
Only the biggest railway stations are designated with the "Centraal" or "CS" affix and there are currently only five of them: Utrecht Centraal, Amsterdam Centraal, Rotterdam Centraal, Leiden Centraal and Den Haag Centraal (Arnhem and Breda are being upgraded to a CS because of the highspeed railconnection with Brussels and Paris). The other railway stations closest to the city centers are usually designated with a "Centrum" affix.
Read more about this topic: Railway Stations In The Netherlands
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