Amsterdam Zuid railway station

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Amsterdam Zuid
Code	Asdz
Opened	1978

Amsterdam Zuid is a railway station situated in the Zuidas ("south axis") area of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, formerly known as Amsterdam Zuid WTC.

It lies on the strategic rail route known as the Zuidtak ("south branch"), which was completed only in 1993, and connects Schiphol Airport railway station in the west to Weesp in the east by way of Duivendrecht, and as of 2006 also to Utrecht in the southeast. In that year, the Utrechtboog was completed, so that changes at Duivendrecht are no longer necessary for passengers from Schiphol to Utrecht and beyond. These routes from Schiphol therefore bypass the congested lines serving Amsterdam Centraal station, allowing faster connections between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and cities in the north and east of the country (Groningen and Enschede, among others) as well destinations in Germany. The station, which has been extended in 2006, plays an increasingly important role, gradually replacing Amsterdam Centraal as the capital's main station for direct trains to several destinations in the north and east of the country. It is anticipated that in the future Amsterdam Zuid will serve a number of the trains using the future HSL-Zuid.

Amsterdam Zuid is currently served by two lines of the Amsterdam Metro and the Tram line 5, as well as by buses, and will be the southern terminus of the new North/South metro line currently under construction.

In 2006, the station dropped the reference to the World Trade Center Amsterdam from its name; in exchange, Amsterdam Bijlmer railway station was renamed Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA railway station after the Amsterdam ArenA.