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Rotterdam Centraal ((:rɔtərˈdɑm sɛnˈtraːɫ)) is the main railway station of the city Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The station received an average of 110,000 passengers daily in 2007.〔 Rotterdam Centraal. (Home page ). Retrieved November 14, 2008〕 The current station building, located at Station Square, was officially opened in March 2014. ==History== Before World War II, Rotterdam did not have a central railway station - instead there were four stations in and around the city centre: *Rotterdam Delftsche Poort: for westbound trains towards Schiedam, Den Haag HS and Amsterdam CS and eastbound trains towards Dordrecht *Rotterdam Beurs: towards Dordrecht, connected to Delftsche Poort *Rotterdam Maas: terminus for eastbound trains to Gouda and Utrecht *Rotterdam Hofplein: terminus for the Hofpleinlijn, an alternative line to Den Haag HS, also going to Scheveningen. Delftse Poort station was badly damaged by bombing in the Rotterdam Blitz. The new Centraal station was rebuilt just westwards of the site. Its original building was designed by architect Sybold van Ravesteyn and was completed on 13 March 1957, officially opening on 21 May. Maas station had closed in 1953 and trains from Utrecht were diverted to Centraal station via the new Rotterdam Noord station. However, the Hofpleinlijn (which later became part of RandstadRail) continued to bypass the station. Hofplein station was eventually closed in 2010 after the Hofpleinlijn was redirected through a tunnel and connected to Centraal station for the first time. On 9 February 1968 Princess Beatrix opened the first metro line in the Netherlands at Centraal station. The line connected the station to the south of Rotterdam and is now known as Line D. The first subway station had an island platform with two tracks. On 28 September 2009, a new and more spacious underground station opened right next to the old one, which was immediately demolished. The new station has two island platforms with three tracks. The mainline station nowadays has seven island platforms with thirteen platform tracks. There are three tracks without platform (tracks 2, 5 and 10). In 2007, it was used by approximately 110,000 passengers a day. The 1957 station building was closed in 2007 and demolished in the following year to make way for a new station, which was completed and opened in 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rotterdam Centraal railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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