On 1 August 1915
Opening of the railway connection between Uithoorn and Alphen aan den Rijn, with among others a station "Nieuwveen", at the end of what is now the W.P. Speelmanweg.
The original document gives 1916 as the year of opening and Amsterdam as the terminus; the line ran from Uithoorn to Alphen aan den Rijn and opened on 1 August 1915.
The line was 23 kilometres long and was built by the Hollandsche Electrische-Spoorweg-Maatschappij as part of the Haarlemmermeer railways. Because it mostly carried horticultural produce, it was popularly nicknamed "het bonenlijntje", the bean line.
Provenance This line was not in the typed document. It was looked up in public sources afterwards and added.
On this spot
Former Nieuwveen station
- 1913 In 1913
- 1918 In January 1918
- 1936 On 1 January 1936
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In 1860
The Leiden firm De Volharding starts a steamboat service to Amsterdam and to Leiden, carrying passengers as well as goods. The landing stage was by the Kattenbrug.
In 1898
For the first time a bicycle with pneumatic tyres is sold to someone in Nieuwveen. The buyer was the municipal clerk W. van der Vos; the supplier, the firm Stichter.
In 1913
The station building at Nieuwveen is built, to the Hesm I standard type.
The station building in 2017. The line closed in 1936; the building stayed. View larger → Around 1914
Motorcycles, cars and lorries make their appearance in Nieuwveen too.
In January 1918
The HESM opens a short goods branch from Nieuwveen to Papenveer. The station there is given the name of Ter Aar, two kilometres further on.
The Nieuwveen–Ter Aar branch on a map of 1914, attached to the interest-free advance from the treasury that paid for the line. View larger → Around 1920
The steamboat services to Amsterdam and Leiden are discontinued. The Leiden firm De Volharding had run them since 1860.