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N.V Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Industry	Rail transport
Founded	1938
Headquarters	Utrecht, Netherlands
Products	Rail transport, rail construction, services
Revenue	€4.9 billion (2015)
Net income	€212 million (2016)
Number of employees	34,000 (2015)
Parent	Netherlands
Subsidiaries	Abellio; Abellio Greater Anglia; Serco-Abellio 50%; Merseyrail 50%; ScotRail ;
Website	www.ns.nl

Nederlandse Spoorwegen (English: Dutch Railways) or NS is the main passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. NS provides rail services on the Dutch main rail network. The rail infrastructure is maintained by network manager ProRail, which was split off from NS in 2003. Freight services, formerly operated by NS Cargo, merged with the DB Schenker group in 2000.

NS runs 4,800 scheduled domestic trains a day, serving 1.1 million passengers.^[2] In addition, NS provides international rail services from Abellio which runs Abellio Greater Anglia, Merseyrail and ScotRail in the United Kingdom.

References[change | change source]

↑ "Geconsolideerd overzicht van het totaalresultaat 2016". nsjaarsverslag.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 September 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
↑ "Annual report 2010". Nederlandse Spoorwegen. 2011-01-01. Archived from the original on 2011-06-30. Retrieved 2011-07-18.

[1] "Geconsolideerd overzicht van het totaalresultaat 2016". nsjaarsverslag.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 September 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}

[Nederlandse_Spoorwegen-2] "Annual report 2010". Nederlandse Spoorwegen. 2011-01-01. Archived from the original on 2011-06-30. Retrieved 2011-07-18.

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