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Rotterdam Centraal Station

Rotterdam Centraal Station

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Rotterdam Centraal Station

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Location: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

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1. Erasmus Bridge – Oude Haven Rotterdam loop from Stadhuis

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2. Oude Haven Rotterdam – View of Erasmus Bridge loop from Schiemond

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3. Erasmusbrug Rotterdam – Oude Haven Rotterdam loop from Rotterdam Centraal

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Gerard Potuijt 🚶‍♂️

February 22, 2021

Rotterdam Central Station is the central station of Rotterdam. The station processes an average of 170,000 travelers every day. The current station building, located on Stationsplein, was officially opened on March 13, 2014 by King Willem-Alexander. The train station has seven platforms with thirteen platform tracks and two continuous tracks without platform, tracks 5 and 10. Track 1 was demolished at the beginning of 2018 with the widening of the side platform along the station building to the previously platform-less, through track 2.

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Gerard Potuijt 🚶‍♂️

February 22, 2021

The station has been closed with OVC gates since May 1, 2015. Rotterdam Central is the first major station on which this has happened. The closing of the gates has been accelerated in connection with the aggression towards railway personnel, which is mainly related to fare dodging (usually not checking in with an OV chip card). To give international travelers transferring here the opportunity to check in or out, there are OVC posts on the platform for international trains.

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Gerard Potuijt 🚶‍♂️

March 22, 2021

Before the Second World War, Rotterdam did not have a central station, but four stations that were located in and around the center and from which travelers traveled in different directions. These were the stations Delftse Poort (towards Schiedam, The Hague HS and Amsterdam CS), Beurs (towards Dordrecht), Maas (towards Gouda and Utrecht) and Hofplein (towards The Hague HS/Scheveningen).

Trains from the direction of Utrecht ended at Maas station from 1858 to 1953. In 1953, a new route was put into use whereby the train from Utrecht was led over the Ceintuurbaan, which until then connected Station DP with Station Maas. Rotterdam Noord became a stop train stop on that route and until 1967 a stop for the international trains Hoek van Holland – Utrecht – Amersfoort – Hengelo – Germany (and Poland/Russia). In the same year, Maas Station was closed and demolished and a new station building, called Rotterdam Central Station, was opened in Rotterdam Noord. In 1957, Rotterdam Central Station was opened, which, as the end of the new arterial road, provided a connection from the center of Rotterdam in all directions, including Gouda and on to Utrecht and The Hague HS via Berkel and Rodenrijs.

Not all railway lines were fully connected to Central Station: the trains on the Hofplein line still ran twice an hour to Rotterdam Hofplein station (and once an hour from Rotterdam Kleiweg station over the Ceintuurbaan to Rotterdam Central Station). Since 17 August 2010, transport via the Hofplein line route to The Hague with metros of the RandstadRail has been completely handled via Central Station and the nearby Hofplein station has been closed permanently.

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