Nederlandse Spoorwegen

principal Dutch passenger railway operator
Organization railway_undertaking Q23076
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Nederlandse Spoorwegen

Summary

Nederlandse Spoorwegen is a railway undertaking[1]. It ranks in the top 5% of railway_undertaking entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (283 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's field of work was product design[3].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen was a member of Railteam[4].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen was a member of International Union of Railways[5].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen was a member of International Rail Transport Committee[6].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen was a member of Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies[7].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen was a member of International Mainline Rail Benchmarking Group[8].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen is located in Utrecht[9].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen is in the country of Netherlands[10].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's image is recorded as NS Stationsgebied Utrecht.jpg[11].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's instance of is recorded as railway undertaking[12].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's audio is recorded as NL-nl Nederlandse Spoorwegen.ogg[13].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's founder is recorded as Dutch State[14].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's owned by is recorded as Kingdom of the Netherlands[15].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's logo image is recorded as Nederlandse Spoorwegen logo.svg[16].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's follows is recorded as Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen[17].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's follows is recorded as Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij[18].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's headquarters location is recorded as Utrecht[19].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's headquarters location is recorded as Utrecht[20].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's chief executive officer is recorded as Wouter Koolmees[21].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's ISNI is recorded as 0000000106609130[22].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 130881331[23].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n80112862[24].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 117113432[25].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's child organization or unit is recorded as Merseyrail[26].
  • Nederlandse Spoorwegen's child organization or unit is recorded as Abellio[27].

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Founding

Nederlandse Spoorwegen's founder is recorded as Dutch State[14]. Recorded inception include +1937-08-02T00:00:00Z[28] and +1938-00-00T00:00:00Z[29]. Its location of formation is recorded as Utrecht[30].

Identity

Predecessors include Maatschappij tot Exploitatie van Staatsspoorwegen[17] and Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij[18]. Nederlandse Spoorwegen's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'NS'}[31].

Leadership

Nederlandse Spoorwegen's chief executive officer is recorded as Wouter Koolmees[21].

Operations

Headquarters locations include Utrecht[19], a municipality of the Netherlands[32], in Netherlands[33]. Subsidiaries include Merseyrail[26], a train operating company[34], in United Kingdom[35]; Abellio[27], a transport company[36], in Netherlands[37], founded in 2001[38], headquartered in Utrecht[39]; Serco-Abellio[40], a business[41], in United Kingdom[42], founded in 2002[43]; Qbuzz[44], a business[45], in Netherlands[46], founded in 2008[47], headquartered in Amersfoort[48]; NS International[49], a railway undertaking[50], in Netherlands[51], founded in 2014[52]; and ElectroRail[53], a business[54], founded in 1948[55], headquartered in Utrecht[56].

Industry

Industries include rail transport[57] and passenger transport[58]. Nederlandse Spoorwegen's field of work was product design[3].

Ownership

Nederlandse Spoorwegen's owned by is recorded as Kingdom of the Netherlands[15].

Why It Matters

Nederlandse Spoorwegen ranks in the top 5% of railway_undertaking entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (283 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

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  33. [29] . Q111369597. hdl.handle.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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