Arnhem Centraal railway station

Arnhem Centraal

ICE and NS trains at the railway station in 2012
Location Arnhem, Gelderland,
 Netherlands
Coordinates 51°59′5″N 5°54′3″E / 51.98472°N 5.90083°E / 51.98472; 5.90083Coordinates: 51°59′5″N 5°54′3″E / 51.98472°N 5.90083°E / 51.98472; 5.90083
Owned by Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Arriva
Breng
Line(s) Amsterdam–Arnhem railway
Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway
Arnhem–Nijmegen railway
Oberhausen–Arnhem railway
Platforms 8
Tracks 10
History
Opened 14 May 1845
Rebuilt 2006-2015
Electrified 1938
Services
Preceding station   ICE   Following station
Intercity-Express 100
1x/day
toward Basel SBB
Intercity-Express 120
5x/day
CityNightLine
City Night Line 419
1x/day
Nederlandse Spoorwegen
toward Den Helder
NS Intercity 3000
2x/hour
Terminus
NS Intercity 3100
2x/hour; Not on late evenings and early Sunday mornings
toward Roosendaal
NS Intercity 3600
2x/hour
toward Zwolle
NS Sprinter 7500
2x/hour, but only 1x/hour on evenings and weekends
Terminus
toward Nijmegen
NS Sprinter 7600
2x/hour, but only 1x/hour on evenings and Sundays
toward Zutphen
Breng
TerminusBreng Stoptrein 30700
2x/hour; Not on evenings and weekends
toward Doetinchem
Arriva
TerminusStoptrein 30900
2x/hour
toward Winterswijk
toward Tiel
Stoptrein 31100
1x/hour, but 2x/hour during weekdays rush hours
Terminus
Location

Arnhem Centraal is a railway station located in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The station was opened on 14 May 1845 and is located on the Rhijnspoorweg (Amsterdam - Emmerich), the Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway and the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway. The station opened at the same time as the Rhijnspoorweg.

The station is the main station of Arnhem, and at present, has around 40,000 passengers that use the station per day, this makes it the 9th busiest station in the Netherlands. The main building has a surface of 18,000 m2 and a volume of 76,000 m3, the building has a capacity of 110.000 transfers per day.[1]

Reconstruction

In 2006 a reconstruction of the complete station area started. In October of that year, a temporary station entrance opened, that could only be reached by three sets of stairs (or by elevators). On July 2, 2011, a new tunnel under the platforms opened. The temporary entrance closed down and dismantled in the Autumn of 2011. As of that period the railway consists of 4 platforms including a footbridge connecting all platforms.

During the summer of 2011 a new dive under was created west of the station which allows trains to Nijmegen and Utrecht to underpass all tracks without interfering the other train services. All traffic on the western part of the station was completely suspended during 5 weeks. Drive under officially opened on the 29 of August in 2011. The official re-opening of the completed station was on 19 November 2015, on this day the station was renamed Arnhem Centraal, formerly it had just been Arnhem.

The new design of the railway station was created by UNStudio[2] It won the Dutch Nationale Staalprijs.

Train services

The following services currently call at Arnhem:

Bus Services

The bus services depart from the covered bus station under neath the Essent towers. Arnhem is known for its trolleybus service in the Netherlands. They operate on a number of city services.

Bus services are operated by a variety of operators; city services are operated by Breng and regional services by Breng, Arriva and Syntus.

City services

Regional services

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ Main building details from Architect
  2. ↑ OV terminal interior architecture

External links

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