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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.
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| Coordinates | 51°55′07″N 4°28′50″E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | RET | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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).
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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]
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