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Amsterdam Centraal
Amsterdam Centraal railway station (or Amsterdam CS) is Amsterdam's central station. It was designed by architects Pierre Cuypers and Al Van Gendt, and opened in 1889. It is built on three islands in the water in front of what was before the "front" of the city. The building resembles the Rijksmuseum, which opened in 1885, also designed by Cuypers. The station has 15 tracks and the six platforms are accessed by passengers via passages below. The station is built in the usual 19th-century way, with a grand facade building containing waiting rooms, ticket offices, etc. and behind is a steel and glass train hall. But it also has an unusual layout because the tracks are not only next to each other in the usual way, but also after each other: In the eastern part is therefore "Track 2a" and in the western part "Track 2b". Most trains that stop at the station do not end at Amsterdam Centraal, but continue to another station in Amsterdam or to another part of the country. The reason for this is that there is no room at any of the city's three shunting yards. Every day, approx. 250,000 travelers pass through the station, making it the busiest railway station in the Netherlands and ahead of the second busiest, Utrecht Centraal. The station is one of the most important hubs in the Netherlands' railway network. There is frequent train traffic from the center to Schiphol Airport station, which is located under the Amsterdam-Schiphol airport. Amsterdam's central station is also the terminus of the high-speed trains to Germany (ICE), Belgium and France (Thalys). There are 4 lines of Amsterdam's subway running here, namely numbers 51, 52, 53 and 54. Approximately 100 buses per hour depart from stops around the station. A number of the city's tram lines end in the square in front of the station. Three ferry lines dock directly behind the station.
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