Mierlo-Hout Level Crossing - Helmond, Netherlands

This 24/7 RailCam feed is positioned at a level crossing in the Mierlo-Hout district of Helmond, southeastern Netherlands, on the railway line running between Eindhoven (14km to the west) and Venlo (50km to the east at the German border). The camera captures the full width of the crossing where road traffic, cyclists, and pedestrians wait as freight and passenger trains pass - a quintessentially Dutch scene where cycling infrastructure, railway barriers, and suburban street life converge in a single frame. RailCam Netherlands has operated as a non-profit association since 2000, providing free 24/7 rail streaming across multiple locations in the country.

The line through Mierlo-Hout carries a mix of NS passenger services and international freight moving between the Port of Rotterdam and the German industrial heartland via Venlo - one of the busiest rail freight crossing points on the Dutch-German border. Freight consists visible on this feed regularly include ECS intermodal containers, GATX tank wagons carrying chemicals and petroleum products, and Ferrymasters curtainsider wagons serving cross-Channel logistics routes. Helmond itself is an industrial city of around 95,000 people in the Noord-Brabant province, historically known for its textile industry and now home to a growing automotive technology sector centred on the DAF Trucks heritage.

The Mierlo-Hout district sits on the eastern fringe of Helmond, where the urban fabric gives way to the flatter agricultural landscape of the Peel region - a former raised bog area that was systematically drained and cultivated during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and now forms part of the broader Eindhoven-Helmond metropolitan corridor, one of the most densely industrialised zones in the southern Netherlands.

Did You Know? The Venlo rail crossing point on the Dutch-German border handles more cross-border freight by rail than almost any other land border crossing in western Europe, reflecting the Netherlands' role as the primary gateway for European container traffic arriving through Rotterdam.

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