Arnhem Centraal railway station

Railway station in Arnhem, Netherlands

Arnhem Centraal

The main building as of 2016

General information
Location| Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Coordinates| 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  |  DB Fernverkehr | Following station

|
|

Utrecht Centraal

towards Amsterdam Centraal

|  | ICE 78 |  | Oberhausen Hbf

towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf or München Hbf

Preceding station  |  Nederlandse Spoorwegen | Following station
Ede-Wageningen

towards Den Helder

|  | NS Intercity 3000 |  | Reverses direction
Nijmegen

Terminus

Ede-Wageningen

towards Den Haag Centraal

|  | NS Intercity 3100 |
Nijmegen

Terminus

Ede-Wageningen

towards Rotterdam Centraal

|  | NS Intercity 3200

Mon-Thur until 19:00

|  | Terminus
Nijmegen

towards Roosendaal

|  | NS Intercity 3600 |  | Dieren

towards Zwolle

Ede-Wageningen

towards Utrecht Centraal

|  | NS Nachtnet 21430

Fri/Sat night only

|  | Reverses direction
Elst

towards Nijmegen

Arnhem Zuid

towards Dordrecht

|  | NS Sprinter 6600

Mon-Sat until 19:00

|  | Terminus
Oosterbeek

towards Ede-Wageningen

|  | NS Sprinter 7500 |
Arnhem Zuid

towards Wijchen

|  | NS Sprinter 7600 |  | Arnhem Velperpoort

towards Zutphen

Preceding station  |  VIAS | Following station
Terminus |  | RE 19 |  | Zevenaar

towards Düsseldorf Hbf

Preceding station  | Breng | Following station
Terminus |  | Breng Stoptrein 30700 |  | Arnhem Velperpoort

towards Doetinchem

Preceding station  | Arriva Netherlands | Following station
Terminus |  | Stoptrein 30900 |  | Arnhem Velperpoort

towards Winterswijk

Elst

towards Tiel

|  | Stoptrein 31100 |  | Terminus

Location

Arnhem Centraal

Location within Netherlands

Arnhem Centraal railway station is the largest railway station in the city of Arnhem in Gelderland, 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

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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 2 July 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 four 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 for five weeks. The dive under officially opened on 29 August 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 Arup AGU. It won the Dutch Nationale Staalprijs.

## Train services

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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 - Oss - 's-Hertogenbosch - Tilburg - Breda - Roosendaal
* Local:
* Sprinter: Arnhem - Nijmegen - Oss - 's-Hertogenbosch - Tilburg - Breda - Dordrecht
* 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

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Stairs in the station building

The bus services depart from the covered bus station underneath the Essent towers and from the area in front of the main entrance. 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]

### City services

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* 1 De Laar West - Elderveld \- Centraal Station - City Centre - Station Velperpoort - Velp (trolleybus)
* 2 Centraal Station - City Centre - Kronenburg (Shopping Mall) - De Laar Oost - De Laar West (trolleybus)
* 3 Het Duifje - City Centre - Centraal Station - Rijnstate (Hospital) - Alteveer - Burgers' Zoo (- Open Air Museum) (trolleybus)
* 5 Schuytgraaf - Station Arnhem Zuid - Elderveld - Centraal Station - City Centre - Presikhaaf (Shopping Mall) - Presikhaaf (trolleybus)
* 6 Centraal Station - City Centre - Presikhaaf (Shopping Mall) - Elsweide/HAN (University of Applied Sciences) (trolleybus)
* 7 Rijkerswoerd - Kronenburg (Shopping Mall) - Gelredome (Stadium) - Centraal Station - City Centre - Station Velperpoort - Geitenkamp (trolleybus)
* 8 Centraal Station - Rijnstate (Hospital) - Open Air Museum - Alteveer - Geitenkamp
* 9 Schaarsbergen I.P.C. - Hoogkamp - Centraal Station
* 10 Centraal Station - Het Dorp - Sportcentrum Papendal
* 11 Station Arnhem Zuid - De Laar Oost - Vredenburg - Kronenburg (Shopping Mall) - Gelredome (Stadium) - Centraal Station
* 12 Centraal Station - City Centre (South) - Presikhaaf - IJsseloord 1 - IJsseloord 2
* 77 Centraal Station - City Centre - Station Velperpoort - CIOS

### Regional services

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* 14 Arnhem - Elden - Elst - Oosterhout - Lent - Nijmegen
* 26 Arnhem - Presikhaaf - Velp - Giesbeek - Doesburg - Dieren
* 27 Arnhem - Presikhaaf - Velp - Giesbeek - Doesburg - Drempt - Hoog Keppel - Laag Keppel - Doetinchem
* 29 Arnhem - Velp - Rheden - Doesburg - Drempt - Hoog Keppel - Laag Keppel - Doetinchem
* 33 Arnhem - Malburgen-Oost - Huissen - Angeren - Doornenburg - Gendt - Bemmel - Lent - Nijmegen
* 43 Arnhem - Westervoort - Velp - Rheden - Ellecom - Dieren - Beekbergen - Apeldoorn
* 51 Arnhem - Oosterbeek - Doorwerth - Heelsum - Renkum - Wageningen
* 56 Arnhem - Driel - Heteren
* 60 Arnhem - Westervoort - Duiven - Zevenaar - Babberich - Lobith - Tolkamer
* 62 Arnhem - Westervoort - Duiven
* 72 Arnhem - Huissen
* 91 Arnhem - Beekbergen - Apeldoorn
* 105 Arnhem - Otterlo - Barneveld
* 231 Arnhem - De Maten (Apeldoorn) - Apeldoorn
* 300 Arnhem - Malburgen-Oost - Huissen - Bemmel - Nijmegen (Bus rapid transit service Brengdirect)
* 331 Arnhem - Kronenburg - Elst - Nijmegen (Bus rapid transit service Brengdirect)
* 352 Arnhem - Oosterbeek - Doorwerth - Heelsum - Renkum - Wageningen (Bus rapid transit service Brengdirect)

## References

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1. ^ "Main building details from Architect". Archived from the original on 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
2. ^ OV terminal interior architecture
3. ^ "Travel by bus or rail with a KLM ticket Archived 2016-10-29 at the Wayback Machine." KLM. Retrieved on October 29, 2016.

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