In the summer of 1876 engineers were busy to determine the exact route of the railroad. By then the eastern part of the line was planned to run between Waalwijk and Sprang to Giersbergen, Cromvoirt and then Vught. This was not what the area had in mind, and the 's-Hertogenbosch municipality now began to protest the proposed direction. By February 1877 the engineers were busy projecting a route along the line Drunen, Nieuwkuijk, Vlijmen.
