Simpelveld
Encyclopedia
Simpelveld is a municipality
and a town
in the southeastern Netherlands
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Simpelveld has a heritage railway
station and is the homebase of the South Limburg Railway Compagny ZLSM (Zuid Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij http://www.zlsm.nl/). On one weekend in October there is a Day out with Thomas
from the children's television series Thomas and Friends.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
and a town
Town
A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...
in the southeastern Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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Simpelveld has a heritage railway
Heritage railway
thumb|right|the Historical [[Khyber train safari|Khyber Railway]] goes through the [[Khyber Pass]], [[Pakistan]]A heritage railway , preserved railway , tourist railway , or tourist railroad is a railway that is run as a tourist attraction, in some cases by volunteers, and...
station and is the homebase of the South Limburg Railway Compagny ZLSM (Zuid Limburgse Stoomtrein Maatschappij http://www.zlsm.nl/). On one weekend in October there is a Day out with Thomas
Day out with Thomas
Day Out With Thomas is a trade name, licensed by HiT Entertainment, for tourist events that take place on heritage railways and feature one or more trains decorated to look like characters from the children's TV series, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends....
from the children's television series Thomas and Friends.