Railway Stations on the Staatslijn I - Rotterdam Centraal Railway Station (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rotterdam Centraal is the main railway station of the city Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The station opened on the 3rd June 1847 as the Delftsche Poort railway station. The current station building was designed by Sybold van Ravesteyn but closed on 2 September 2007 whilst the whole station is being modernised. It is planned to re-open in 2010. The station currently has 13 platforms, many being island platforms. The station is on the Oude Lijn, Staatslijn I and the HSL-Zuid. There is a train/metro service under the station on Rotterdam Metro line D, and, as of 2010, on RandstadRail line E. As it is one of the four main stations in the Netherlands it is well connected with cities all over the country. Major destinations include: Amsterdam Centraal, Amersfoort, Apeldoorn, Breda, Capelle aan den IJssel, Deventer, Dordrecht, Delft, Den Haag HS, Den Haag City, Eindhoven, Enschede, Gouda, Haarlem, Hengelo, Hoek van Holland (Ferry to Harwich UK), Leeuwarden, Leiden, Maassluis, Middelburg, Utrecht Centraal, Venlo, Vlaardingen Centrum, Vlissingen, Zaandam, Zwolle. There are also International services to: Antwerpen, Brussels every hour and Paris 5 times in the day. The following services call at Rotterdam Centraal: Panorama of Rotterdam Centraal Rotterdam Centraal is a station on line D of the Rotterdam Metro. It currently only serves as a northern terminus, but an extension is being built as part of the RandstadRail project. This extension, connecting the already existing part of this line via the new Blijdorp station to the old railway line between Rotterdam Hofplein and The Hague, is planned to open in 2010 as a part of line E. Rotterdam Centraal will temporarily serve as the southern terminus of line E, but as of 2011, it will continue further ... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=20212166