On this page you will find the Holland Routes that I have written, and their associated object folders.
Vince Black's website (http://www.bve.cz/en/home.html) hosts a number of rudimentary routes without scenery. The BVE program, track viewer and structure viewer can be downloaded from the originator: http://mackoy.cool.ne.jp/
The letters BVE stand for Boso View Express. Boso is the peninsula to the east of Tokyo, where Chiba is the main city. There are two lines, the Uchibo (or inner) Line and the Sotobo (or outer) Line, both starting at Chiba. Awa-Kamogawa is the end terminal for both lines.
Rüdiger Hülsmann's Switch1.5 program can be found here: http://www.ruedes-bve-seite.de/. The english tutorial is here:Switch15.doc

Any further routes will be based on Intercity Routes, and the first ones are here posted for the first time. They contain sufficient objects to make them of interest to most hobbyists. Trackage is based on published trackplans (www.sporenplan.nl) and satellite images; the scenery, however, is mostly fantasy although road crossings and rivers are named. In the later routes I have attempted to adhere to satellite views with regards to the placement of buildings and trees.
Large-scale maps of many municipalities in the Netherlands can be found here: http://www.plattegronden.nl/

A complete description of the train routes of Holland can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_routes_in_the_Netherlands, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_Spoorwegen

• The HSL trains (High Speed Line) are using a Belgian locomotive and red, pink and white coaches for now (illustrated above); the TGV trains will come later. These coaches (8) are in Benelux.zip; two are merked: Fyra. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL-Zuid
• Amsterdam Centraal/Den Haag ('s Gravenhage)/Rotterdam-Utrecht-Amersfoort-Zwolle-Meppel-Leeuwarden/Groningen
• Den Haag CS-Leiden-Schiphol-A'dam South-Amersfoort-Hengelo-Germany/Denmark/Poland. A start has been made, but soon I shall have to decide whether to use Amsterdam South or A'dam Centraal.
• Utrecht-Ede/Wageningen-Arnhem-Köln-Frankfurt etc
• Amsterdam-Amersfoort-Apeldoorn-Enschede-Hannover-Berlin/Copenhagen/Warsawa
• Leeuwarden/Groningen-Zwolle-'s Hertogenbosch-Roosendaal-Vlissingen (change of trains in Zwolle; over 375km).
• There is today (2010) a scheduled train from A'dam to Enschede (184km) every 10 minutes!
• Amsterdam-Schiphol.rw (103Kb)
• Amsterdam-Antwerpen-v3.rw (left running from Roosendaal, 268Kb).
• Amsterdam-Antwerpen (Thalys PBKA).rw This is the route enhanced by Rudolf Halenbeek, and is truly marvelous.The objects for this route are found in holland2.zip, and also in holland2add.zip; unzip the last one in holland2 object file (see note below). I have made a start combining the two holland object folders; but this may take some time.
• Maastricht_v2.rw From Zandvoort aan Zee, via Weert, 246km, 496Kb.
• Maastricht_v6.rw From Zandvoort aan Zee,via Venlo, 270km, and continued to Liège-Guillemins, Belgium. There is a scheduled train (450 IC) from Maastricht to Ghent via Visé, Liège-Guillemins and Brussels South. Some small corrections have been made, and more scenery added, like the yards at Visé and Bressoux, and Guillemins station. I am planning to go over this route more extensively. Checking this route today, I corrected a number of discrepancies; like, Zandvoort is now more like the real station, and Haarlem and Maastricht trackage has been improved. Lots of trees were planted. Much work still needs to be done. Some objects have been added to the holland objects folder.

• Maastricht_v6_BVE4.csv For BVE 2 and BVE4. Updated Aug.24th, 2011, with more scenery between Haarlem and Spaarnwoude. Use the same holland object folder for BVE4. Holland object folder updated Aug.16th.
• A complete package has been prepared for OpenBVE by Otto Wipfel on his own website: http://www.otto-wipfel.co.uk/openbve/maastricht-openbve-13-august-11.zip
  This contains a slightly altered object folder. Thanks Otto!

• Zwolle_v5.rw (A'dam-Weesp, 13km) A route in progress. Version 3 corrected the distance between Amsterdam Centraal and Muiderpoort. More buildings, etc were added. Still working on the Watergraafsmeer yard.
• NEW Zwolle_v6.csv (A'dam-Weesp, 13km) A route in progress. Amersfoort station has been sketched in (Jan 1, 2012).
• Den_Helder_v3.3.rw (Den Helder-Amsterdam, 84km, 122Kb)
• Amsterdam Centraal-Haarlem-Den Haag HS(Holland Spoor)-Rotterdam CS-Roosendaal-Vlissingen
• Den Haag CS-Rotterdam CS-Breda-Eindhoven-Venlo (Köln)
• Zwolle-Arnhem-Nijmegen-'s Hertogenbosch-Breda-Vlissingen
• LongSwitches.rw A 2.3km demo road made with 50m switches, 8.86Kb.
• Rail network map of the Benelux:benelux.gif From http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting. This site has rail maps of most of Europe. A large scale railmap of Russia is here: http://www.parovoz.com/maps/supermap/index-e.html
• A zoomable map of NS train routes may be found here: http://www.trein-kaart.nl/

Click here to download the object folders:

• holland.zip (3.2mb zipped)
• holland2.zip
• H2-Misc.zip The H2-Misc.zip and the object2.zip object files have been combined into the holland2add.zip file. Make sure the following folders are in the holland2 object folder: Skypass1,66,politie,GVB,hopper,train; use the train folder from the holland object folder, or re-write the route file like this: instead of 'holland2\train', write 'holland\train'. The program will find it for sure. The contents of the other folders you can place in the holland2 folder. There are some interesting objects here, not found elsewhere.
• holland2add.zip
• Train.zip (13.5mb zipped) NSMat64. Place folder in holland object folder.
• Bridge.zip Thanks to Ron's BVE. Include folder in holland object folder.
• Buildings.zip (3.8mb zipped) Place folder in holland object folder.
• Nanbu.zip (191Kb zipped) Place folder in holland object folder.
• markers.zip (245kb zipped) Markers are complete for Maastricht_v2 and Maastricht_v3, Aug. 2010. Place markers folder in holland object folder. Unfortunately, BVE4 and up do not show markers, so you may remove them from the object folder used for BVE4 and up. I'm sure many will feel lost without them.
• 209-500kh.zip (40kb zipped) Place folder in holland object folder. I have used this Japanese metro train in place of a local one, for now. The maker is Y.Negishi of http://urawa.cool.ne.jp/negishi_bve/, but I have been unable to contact him. Thanks anyway.
• Benelux.zip A set of 6 HSL coaches made from drawings by Arthur Pijpers of http://www.arthurstreinenpagina.nl/, with my thanks. Two HSAFyra coaches have been added. Unzip in Train folder in holland object folder. The basic coach design is by Davy Gijbels of Belgian BVE: http://users.skynet.be/fa321706/Home.htm.
• LongSwitches.zip (430Kb) Objects for LongSwitches RR.
• NG25-38Switches.zip These are 25m switches converted to 1067mm and 3.8m track separation, using Switch15.
• NG50-38Switches.zip These are 50m switches converted to 1067mm and 3.8m track separation, using Switch15.
• NG_DoubleSlips.zip A set of 3 25m and 3 50m double switches in narrow (1067mm) gauge and 3.8 track separation, using Switch15.
• NG_Crossing.zip These are 25m & 50m crossings converted to 1067mm and 3.8m track separation, using Switch15.
• Read_me2.doc
• New_ReadMe2.doc
• nsmat64.zip (1.33Mb) This is Edwin van Bree's NSMat64 train. A newer version is available at Vince Black's website: http://www.bve.cz/en/trains_emu.html#nsmat64n
• Pole1.csv A better fitting catenary support than the one in the previous holland object file; now also in holland object zip file.