Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij
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|caption=Platform of the Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg-Maatschappij in Utrecht in 1866, later
Utrecht CS
|gauge= {{Track gauge|1435mm|allk=on}}
|old_gauge= {{Track gauge|1945mm|lk=on}}
|locale=The Netherlands|start_year=1845|end_year=1890|routemap=Utrecht - Rotterdam
Woerden - Leiden|length= {{cvt|118|km|mi}} constructed, {{cvt|240|km|mi}} operated|hq_city=Utrecht}}The Dutch Rhenish Railway or Dutch–Rhenish Railway ({{langx|nl|'Nederlandsche Rhijnspoorweg'}} or {{lang|nl|Nederlandsche Rhijn-Spoorweg}}) was a Dutch railway company active from 1845 until 1890.
History
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The Dutch Rhenish Railway Company Limited was founded in Amsterdam on 3 July 1845 to take over the state-run Rhenish Railway, which was losing money. The majority of the shareholders were British. In or shortly after 1857, James Staats Forbes was appointed general manager for five years. He remained a permanent adviser to the company until its concession expired and it was nationalised in 1890. The Dutch businessman and politician Hendrik Adriaan van Beuningen started his career at DRR as a clerk, but was soon promoted to freight transport manager.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
Locomotive number 107, Sharp Stewart 3563/1889, is preserved in the Utrecht Railway Museum.
Lines
Lines built and operated by the Dutch Rhenish Railway include:
See also
References
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[s.n.] (1 January 1855). [http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/the-opening-of-the-dutch-rhenish-railway-at-a-temporary-news-photo/3330273 The opening of the Dutch Rhenish railway at a temporary station in Rotterdam]. Illustrated London News. Accessed September 2013 {{dead|date=September 2024}}.Frederick J. Teggart (1895). [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032318689#page/n151/mode/2up/search/rhenish Catalogue of the Hopkins Railway Library]. Palo Alto, CA: Leland Stanford Junior University. p. 132.
Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. (1995). [http://www.thebhc.org/publications/BEHprint/v024n1/p0186-p0193.pdf State versus Private Enterprise in Railway Building in the Netherlands, 1838-1938]. Business and Economic History 24 (1): 186–193. Accessed September 2013{{dead|date=September 2024}}.James Waite ([n.d.]). [http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/trains/holland02.htm Narrow Gauge Steam Railways in Holland]. The International Steam Pages. Accessed September 2013 fdzv.
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Category:Railway companies established in 1845
Category:Railway companies disestablished in 1890
Category:Railway companies of the Netherlands
Category:Companies based in Amsterdam
Category:Former Dutch railway companies