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11 unusual facts about Amsterdam Centraal railway station


Hollandsche Manege

The new building was designed by the then-popular architect A.L. van Gendt, who also designed the Concertgebouw concert hall and the Amsterdam Centraal railway station.

Krommenie

From here there are 4 trains an hour to Amsterdam in one direction and Uitgeest - Alkmaar in the other, with a journey time of 25 minutes.

NS Class 1200

They are used for transporting the empty Citynightline train from Munich and Zurich and the Euronight Jan Kiepura train from Moscow, Minsk, Warsaw, Prague and Copenhagen between Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Watergraafsmeer.

Oosterdokseiland

Oosterdokseiland (Dutch: "Eastern Dock Island") is an island that forms a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands just to the east of Amsterdam Centraal railway station.

Overhoeks

Overhoeks is a new mixed-use neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands in the borough of Amsterdam-Noord directly across the IJ river (technically a lake) from the city's central station.

Philip Slier

However on 3 March 1943 Flip was caught and arrested by the Germans at the Amsterdam Centraal railway station when he was trying to board a train to Switzerland.

Piet Hein Tunnel

It provides a road link running east-west between the city center and the A10 ring-road, and since May 2005 also provides a tram link between the Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Haveneiland, IJburg.

Sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics

The Olympic harbor Six Harbor was on the North shore of the Y just opposite of the Amsterdam Centraal railway station.

Schagen

From Amsterdam Centraal these Intercity trains continue trough Utrecht Centraal either to Eindhoven and Maastricht or to Arnhem and Nijmegen.

Uitgeest

Uitgeest is served by 4 trains per hour (Monday - Saturday), journey time to Amsterdam is around 20 minutes.

Wormerveer

There are 4 trains per hour (Monday to Friday) to Amsterdam.


Amsterdam Zuid railway station

These routes from Schiphol therefore bypass the congested lines serving Central Amsterdam, allowing faster connections between Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and cities in the north and east of the country (Leeuwarden and Enschede, among others).

Haarlem railway station

The scenes in the 2004 film Ocean's Twelve that are meant to portray Amsterdam Centraal station were actually shot on platform 3a at Haarlem station.