Beurs metro station

Beurs is a major subway interchange station in the center of Rotterdam. Underneath Churchill Square (Dutch: Churchillplein), the two lines through the city center (lines A-B-C and lines D-E) intersect. Passengers for Rotterdam Central Station change here to line D or E if they started their journey on line A, B, or C.

Beurs
Rotterdam Metro station
General information
Coordinates	51°55′07″N 4°28′50″E
Owned by	RET
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	1968
Services
Preceding station Rotterdam Metro Following station Eendrachtsplein towards Vlaardingen West Line A Not on evenings and early weekend mornings Blaak towards Binnenhof Eendrachtsplein towards Hoek van Holland Strand Line B Blaak towards Nesselande Eendrachtsplein towards De Akkers Line C Blaak towards De Terp Leuvehaven towards De Akkers Line D Stadhuis towards Rotterdam Centraal Leuvehaven towards Slinge Line E Stadhuis towards Den Haag Centraal

All destinations within the network are accessible from Beurs. Since December 2011, it has also been incorporated into the new RandstadRail network, resulting in a direct connection to The Hague (line E).

History

One of the oldest railway stations in Rotterdam was called Beurs, but that station was on the location where in 1953 Rotterdam Blaak was built.^[1]

The metro station Beurs opened on 9 February 1968 on the North-South Line (also temporarily called Erasmuslijn). On 6 May 1982 a new station, Churchillplein, was opened nearby on the new East-West Line (also temporarily Calandlijn). Both stations were connected by an underground walkway. In 2000, this separate naming was abandoned. For a while, signs in the East-West Line-portion of the station still had 'Churchillplein' in a smaller font below 'Beurs', but this has been removed.^[when?]

In 2002, the capacity of Beurs metrostation was doubled.^[2] In 2018, Beurs was the busiest metrostation of the Netherlands with 128.000 transit passengers per day.^[3] For 2024, another renovation was proposed.^[4]

References

1. Vocke, Wouter (2022-05-28). "Dit is waarom station Beurs hét knooppunt van Rotterdam is". indebuurt Rotterdam (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-02-19.
2. Briginshaw, D. (April 1997). "ROTTERDAM INVESTS IN RAIL TRANSIT". International Railway Journal. 37 (4). ISSN 0744-5326.
3. "De Rotterdamse metro kan het groeiende aantal passagiers bijna niet meer aan". Trouw. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
4. "Rotterdam neemt drukste metrostation onder handen". Algemeen Dagblad. Retrieved 2024-02-19.