The main interchange stations on the Meppel – Groningen railway are : The Westerbork transit camp , where Dutch Jews and others were held before deportation to Nazi concentration camps in the East , had its own branch line from the Meppel – Groningen railway , branching off at the former Hooghalen railway station . In the 1970s , the railway was the scene of two train hijackings by South-Moluccans : in 1975 at Wijster , and in 1977 at De Punt
in 1975 at Wijster
1975 Dutch train hostage crisis
Meppel–Groningen railway