Place
Former Nieuwveen station
Station building of 1913, Hesm I type. Now office space.
Willem Pieter Speelmanweg 39a, 2441 CB Nieuwveen
What happened here
4 events
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 → 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.
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 → On 1 January 1936
Closure of the railway connection Uithoorn – Alphen aan den Rijn, and with it the closure of Nieuwveen station.
The line had never paid its way from the outset. The station building of 1913 still stands and is now in use as office space, at W.P. Speelmanweg 39a.