Can someone help me find the name of this train station?

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  1. Yuup, Rotterdam Centraal. I immediately recognised the Delftse Poort towers on the right.

    I think this photo was taken 2007/2008ish. The small blue building on the right is a temporary building used during renovation, and I *think* I can still see parts of the old station building as well. It looks completely different nowadays.

  2. Since everyone likes to post/spam the answer that has already been posted numerous times by others, I would like to let you know that this is Rotterdam Centraal.

  3. Architect: Sybold van Ravesteijn. Hij combineerde Italiaanse barok stijl met modern materiaal. Geen rechte hoeken, maar vloeiende curves. Van beton ipv marmer, waarom niet. Een unicum in Nederland. Toch is hij vermoedelijk de meest gesloopte architect van Nederland. Misschien omdat hij vooral utiliteitsgebouwen ontwierp, maar waarschijnlijk ook omdat hij Mussolini bewonderde.

    Ik vond die betonnen daken echt prachtig trouwens. De ontvangshal was ook heel mooi. Maar het werd te klein helaas en het nieuwe station is ook 1 vd mooiere in Nederland.

  4. Verry old foto of Rotterdam Centraalstation, had to look twice before i figured it out, because now it looks like a sharkfin stikking out of the ground.

  5. TRAAN LATEN

    (that was on top of Rotterdam Centraal at the time, recycling the letters of the name)

  6. Is no1 gonna comment on the see-through guy leaving the train in the bottom left?? You can see the tiles behind him….

  7. Pictures like these always remind me how easily you forget what urban areas used to look like after they are changed. My home town has also seen some big changes in the last 10 years and I have a really hard time picturing how they used to be, even though that period was pretty much my entire childhood.

  8. Als je het niet weet. De afbeelding heeft een goede resolutie. Dus je kan inzoomen op het naambordje dat op de afbeelding bij het afdakje staat. Daar staat namelijk “Rotterdam Centraal” op.😁

    Op klein scherm is dat wel leuk. Het lijkt dan net FBI werk.😜

  9. This is station Soestduinen, serving the village (I wouldn’t call it a town) of the same name, shortly before its closure in 1998 – you only see two trains and one(!) person so it’s clearly not a hotspot.

    The other tracks basically all serve the Utrecht-Amersfoort line; instead of using high-speed trains we just use normal-speed trains on 12 tracks in parallel (tapering down to 8 or even 4 in the periphery).

  10. There’s only 1 city in the Netherlands with those kinds of skyscrapers. But the station was completely renovated/rebuilt a decade ago, so you’ll have to be happy with the pictures.

  11. The shape of the pillars that hold up the roof in the new station mirror the shape of the old platform roofs you see on this picture. I love the new station. Probably my favorite building in Rotterdam

  12. It’s actually in the picture: you can read Rotterdam Centraal on the blue shield next to the “platform 9” sign

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