Architectural photo of the NS railway station of Rotterdam taken in the evening on a tripod by Bart Ros

About "Architectural photo of the NS railway station of Rotterdam taken in the evening on a tripod"

by Bart Ros

About the artwork

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 st