Arnhem Centraal railway station

Arnhem Centraal
The main building as of 2016
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	NS Stations
Line(s)	Amsterdam–Arnhem railway Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway Arnhem–Nijmegen railway Oberhausen–Arnhem railway
Platforms	8
Tracks	11
Construction
Platform levels	2
History
Opened	14 May 1845
Rebuilt	2006-2015
Electrified	1938
Services Preceding station   ICE   Following station Utrecht Centraal toward Amsterdam Centraal Intercity-Express 100 Oberhausen Hbf toward Basel SBB Intercity-Express 120 Oberhausen Hbf toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Nederlandse Spoorwegen Ede-Wageningen toward Den Helder NS Intercity 3000 Nijmegen Terminus Ede-Wageningen toward Schiphol Airport NS Intercity 3100 Nijmegen toward Roosendaal NS Intercity 3600 Dieren toward Zwolle Arnhem Zuid toward 's-Hertogenbosch NS Sprinter 4400 Terminus Oosterbeek toward Ede-Wageningen NS Sprinter 7500 Arnhem Zuid toward Nijmegen NS Sprinter 7600 Arnhem Velperpoort toward Zutphen Preceding station   Abellio Rail NRW   Following station Terminus RE 19 Rhein-IJssel-Express Zevenaar toward Düsseldorf Hbf Breng Terminus Breng Stoptrein 30700 Arnhem Velperpoort toward Doetinchem Arriva Terminus Stoptrein 30900 Arnhem Velperpoort toward Winterswijk Elst toward Tiel Stoptrein 31100 Terminus
Location

Arnhem Centraal is the largest railway station in the city of Arnhem, Netherlands. It was opened on 14 May 1845 and is located on the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway, the Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway and the Arnhem–Nijmegen railway. The station opened at the same time as the Amsterdam–Arnhem railway, that continues into Germany via the Oberhausen–Arnhem railway.

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]

Building

Former station building

Entrance hall of the new station

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] in collaboration with Cecil Balmond at Aurp AGU. It won the Dutch Nationale Staalprijs.

Train services

The station is served by the following train services:

• International:
  • Intercity-Express: Amsterdam - Utrecht - Arnhem - Cologne - Frankfurt Airport - Basel
  • Intercity-Express: Amsterdam - Utrecht - Arnhem - Cologne - Frankfurt
  • Regional Express: Arnhem - Emmerich - Wesel - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf
• National:
  • Express:
    • Intercity: Den Helder - Amsterdam - Utrecht - Arnhem - Nijmegen
    • Intercity: Schiphol - Utrecht - Arnhem - Nijmegen
    • Intercity: Zwolle - Arnhem - Nijmegen - 's-Hertogenbosch - Breda - Roosendaal
  • Local:
    • Sprinter: Arnhem - Nijmegen - 's-Hertogenbosch
    • Sprinter: Ede-Wageningen - Arnhem
    • Sprinter: Zutphen - Arnhem - Nijmegen (- Wijchen on weekdays)
    • Stoptrein: Arnhem - Zevenaar - Doetinchem
    • Stoptrein: Arnhem - Zevenaar - Doetinchem - Winterswijk
    • Stoptrein: Tiel - Elst - Arnhem

Bus services

Stairs in the station building

The bus services depart from the covered bus station underneath 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.

KLM also operates a bus service for KLM customers from the train station to Schiphol Airport.^[3]

References

Sunset View of Arnhem Centraal Railway Station

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Station Arnhem Centraal.

• (in Dutch) Station Arnhem, train schedules and station facilities