Maarssen, Provincie Utrecht, Netherlands

🇳🇱 Maarssen is a town in the middle of the Netherlands, in the province of Utrecht, along the river Vecht and the Amsterdam–Rhine Canal. The west of Maarssen is called Maarssen-Broek whereas the east is called Maarssen-Dorp. These two areas together with other small villages around form the area of Maarssen. Stichtse Vecht has been formed by a merger of the municipalities of Breukelen, Maarssen and Loenen.

Population centres The former municipality of Maarssen consisted of the following cities, towns, villages and/or districts: • Maarssen (colloquially "Maarssen-dorp") and Maarssen-Broek • Maarssenbroek • Maarsseveen • Molenpolder • Oud-Maarsseveen • Oud-Zuilen • Tienhoven.

Transport Maarssen is a railway station in Maarssenbroek and on the opposite side of the Amsterdam Rijnkanaal to Maarssen, Netherlands. The station opened on 18 December 1843 and is located on the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway. The services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

In 1953 the station was served by two trains to and from Amsterdam per day. The service improved in the 1970s following the building of Maarssenbroek, and in 1974 the station had an hourly service. In 1975 the station had a half-hourly service.

A (fourth) new station building was built in 2004. In a 2005 survey approximately 5,523 passengers use this station per day.

Train services The following services currently call at Maarssen: • 2x per hour local service (sprinter) Amsterdam - Utrecht - Rhenen • 2x per hour local service (sprinter) Breukelen - Utrecht - Veenendaal Centrum.