Haarlem railway station

Haarlem
Station statistics
Coordinates	52°23′16″N 4°38′20″E
Lines	Amsterdam–Rotterdam railway Haarlem–Uitgeest railway Haarlem–Zandvoort railway
Platforms	6
Other information
Opened	1839
Code	Hlm
Owned by	Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Location

Haarlem is a railway station in the Netherlands, located in the city of Haarlem on the Amsterdam–Rotterdam railway, the original train line linking Amsterdam to Zandvoort and Amsterdam to Leiden. The station building itself is a rijksmonument. The municipality of Haarlem is currently working on a plan to upgrade the area near the railway station (Masterplan Spoorzone).

History

Haarlem station main entrance today

1842 neo-classical station by F.W. Conrad

In this commemorative tile tablet for Beijnes, now in the Spoorwegmuseum, the old Beijnes factory across from the Haarlem station can be seen, that was built in the same style as the station itself in 1867. The Beijnes hall and workshop was situated across from the station, and is where the train locomotives were serviced and where the train and tram carriages were made.

The Arend, a working replica at the Nederlands Spoorwegmuseum

Inside Haarlem station today

The first, wooden station was built on the Oude Weg, just outside the Amsterdamse Poort in 1839 to accommodate the passengers of the first railway in the Netherlands between Haarlem and Amsterdam, which had a rail width of 2 meters. The station was built outside the city, on the current location of the Centrale Werkplaats (maintenance depot) of the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij. At great expense, the rail width was later reduced to 1.435 meters in order to conform to George Stephenson's standard gauge. The train engine "De Snelheid" was the twin of the Amsterdam "Arend", which along with the carriages, were designed by Stephenson's apprentice, the English rail engineer Thomas Longridge Gooch of R.B. Longridge & Co. There were 4 trains per day to Amsterdam, scheduled at 9:00, 14:00, 16:00, and 18:00. The prices of the tickets for 1st (closed carriage), 2nd, and 3rd class (char-à-banc) were 1.20, 80c, and 40c (guilders). A few years later the new railway turned out to be a great success, and in 1842 a real station was built on the current location. It was designed by F.W. Conrad in a semi-Greek neo-classicistic style. The front of the building was open to the street.

Mouthaan

In 1867 the station was re-designed by P.J. Mouthaan; an extra floor was put on the building and the front of the building was now closed as well.

Current station

The current building was built between 1905 and 1908. The design is by D.A.N. Margadant. It was elevated, to make way for the traffic in the city. It is the only train station in the Netherlands that is built in Art Nouveau style.

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  1900s decoration depicting the history of the Amsterdam-Haarlem train route from the trekschuit to carriageway along the haarlemmertrekvaart.

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  Waiting room first class; the cow-catchers depicted on the train engines are historically inaccurate and were never found on Dutch train engines

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  1939 tile memorial plaque celebrating 100 years of railway history shows accurate early engine on the left.

Train services

The following train services currently call at Haarlem:

• 2x per hour intercity service Amsterdam - Rotterdam - Roosendaal - Vlissingen
• 2x per hour intercity service Amsterdam - Rotterdam - Dordrecht
• 2x per hour intercity service Hoorn - Alkmaar - Haarlem
• 2x per hour local service (stoptrein) Uitgeest - Haarlem - Amsterdam
• 2x per hour local service (stoptrein) Zandvoort - Haarlem - Amsterdam
• 2x per hour local service (stoptrein) The Hague - Leiden - Haarlem
• 2x per hour local service (sprinter) Zandvoort - Haarlem (summer only)

Preceding station		Nederlandse Spoorwegen		Following station
Heemstede-Aerdenhout toward Vlissingen		NS Intercity 2100		Amsterdam Sloterdijk toward Amsterdam Centraal
Heemstede-Aerdenhout toward Dordrecht		NS Intercity 2200		Amsterdam Sloterdijk toward Amsterdam Centraal
Terminus		NS Intercity 3400		Beverwijk toward Hoorn
Overveen toward Zandvoort		NS Stoptrein 5400		Haarlem Spaarnwoude toward Amsterdam Centraal
Bloemendaal toward Uitgeest		NS Sprinter 4800		Haarlem Spaarnwoude toward Amsterdam Centraal
Heemstede-Aerdenhout toward Den Haag Centraal		NS Sprinter 6300		Terminus
Overveen toward Zandvoort		NS Sprinter 15400		Terminus

Bus services

2, 3, 4, 5 , 8, 15, 50, 51, 73, 75, 81, 90, 150, 175, 176, 177, 300, 575, 673, N30

A special bus line around Amsterdam is the Zuidtangent, which has largely its own bus lane, with priority at crossings.

Route: Station Haarlem - Hoofddorp - Schiphol (railway station) - Amstelveen - Amsterdam Zuidoost

Trivia

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

External links

• NS website (English)
• Dutch Public Transport journey planner (English)
• Connexxion website (Dutch)
• Haarlem Shuffle - Central Railway Station

Dutch Rijksmonument 19786