Breda-Prinsenbeek railway station Breda-Prinsenbeek railway station Breda-Prinsenbeek is a railway station located in Prinsenbeek near Breda, Netherlands. The station was opened in 1988 and is located on the Breda–Rotterdam railway. The station is currently operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen. These are some of the destinations that are possible to reach from Breda-Prinsenbeek: Breda, Dordrecht, Rotterdam and Den Haag. For more major destinations it is best to travel to Breda. These include: Roosendaal, Tilburg, 's-Hertogenbosch, Nijmegen, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Helmond and Venlo. Travelling to Dordrecht will allow a connection on to a faster train to Rotterdam, Den Haag, Leiden and Amsterdam. The following services currently call
Siege of Breda (1624) the Dutch regularly used the town as a base for raiding Spanish Brabant, the parts of Brabant under royal rule would be better protected if the city were conquered. In addition, neighbouring towns occupied by the States, such as Bergen op Zoom, would be easier to conquer with a foothold in Breda. In 1590, Breda was captured from the Spanish using the stratagem with the peat boat. The conquest of a well-defended city like Breda would erase this disgrace. More importantly, Spinola personally felt that the failure of the Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom (1622) was a blot on his reputation. Furthermore,