In the year 1970
A new provincial road is being laid out, largely on the old railway bed between the former Nieuwveen station on the W.P. Speelmanweg and De Driesprong at Blokland. It is expected in the spring of 1972 and is meant to take through traffic out of the heart of the village, where it causes congestion every day.
Provenance This comes from the series J.J. Roovers set down up to 1970. The wording here is this site’s own. View the source
On this spot
N231 / Oude Spoorbaan
- 1972 In 1972
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In 1972
The new provincial road is completed; the last section is taken into use in 1972, exactly as the original document predicted. The road follows the course of the closed branch railway and relieves through traffic in the built-up area.
The road is later called the N231; part of it bears the name "Oude Spoorbaan", old railway bed, to this day.
From 1823 to 1825
The river Aar is substantially improved and the Aarkanaal dug. The old bridge, the Duivelsbrug (Devil's Bridge), gives way to a wooden double-leaf drawbridge that comes to be called the Kattenbrug.
The Kattenbrug over the Aarkanaal. The canal is dug in the entry beside this; the bridge still crosses it. View larger → From 1823 to 1825
The Duivelssluis, the lock in the Aar beside the Duivelsbrug, falls out of use. A new complex of locks at the Tolhuis in Leimuiden takes its place.
In 1927
The Kerkstraat, until then surfaced with fine gravel, is the first road in the village to get a coat of road tar.