Pijnacker Centrum | |||||||||||
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 Pijnacker Centrum RandstadRail station in 2006 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Netherlands | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°01′13″N4°26′16″E / 52.02028°N 4.43778°E | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | E | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1 October 1908, reopened 10 September 2006 | ||||||||||
| Closed | 3 June 2006 | ||||||||||
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Pijnacker Centrum is a RandstadRail station located in Pijnacker, the Netherlands. [1]
The railway station opened here on 1 October 1908 as part of the Hofpleinlijn. This station was closed on 3 June 2006 for conversion to a RandstadRail metro station.
The RandstadRail station opened on 10 September 2006 for the RET Erasmuslijn metro service, currently line E. The station features 2 platforms, that are the same height as the train doors.
In 2006 and 2007 the service was operated as a shuttle Rotterdam Hofplein - Nootdorp. The station lies in the centre of Pijnacker, near the Oostlaan.
In 2017 a pilot project was proposed to have a night-time metro service from Rotterdam to Pijnacker. [2] The municipal council rejected the stop at Pijnacker-Centrum station for the night service because of noise pollution. [3]
The following services currently call at Pijnacker Centrum:
| Service | Route | Material | Frequency |
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| E | Den Haag Centraal - Laan van NOI - Voorburg 't Loo - Leidschendam-Voorburg - Forepark - Leidschenveen - Nootdorp - Pijnacker Centrum - Pijnacker Zuid - Berkel Westpolder - Rodenrijs - Meijersplein - Melanchthonweg - Blijdorp - Rotterdam Centraal - Stadhuis - Beurs - Leuvehaven - Wilhelminaplein - Rijnhaven - Maashaven - Zuidplein - Slinge | RET Metro [4] | 6x per hour (every 10 minutes), evenings and Sundays: 4x per hour (every 15 minutes) |
These service departs from near the station, on the Oostlaan, one level higher than the station:
HTM Personenvervoer NV is a public transport company in the Netherlands operating trams, lightrail and buses in The Hague, Rijswijk, Leidschendam, Voorburg, Delft, Zoetermeer, Wateringen, Pijnacker and Nootdorp, the so-called Conurbation Haaglanden. The lightrail connection to Zoetermeer is operated in cooperation with RET, the Rotterdam-public transport company, which operates the connection between The Hague Central Station and Slinge in the south of Rotterdam, thus giving a fast and easy connection between the two city-centres. Regional transports are serviced by Connexxion, Arriva and RET.
Nootdorp is a small town in the Dutch province of South Holland. It is bordered by Zoetermeer to the north, by The Hague to the west, by Delfgauw to the south and by Pijnacker to the east. Nootdorp was a separate municipality until 2002, when it merged with Pijnacker to form Pijnacker-Nootdorp, which is a part of Greater The Hague.
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The Rotterdam Metro is a rapid transit system operated in Rotterdam, Netherlands and surrounding municipalities by RET. The first line, called Noord – Zuidlijn opened in 1968 and ran from Centraal Station to Zuidplein, crossing the river Nieuwe Maas in a tunnel. It was the first metro system to open in the Netherlands. At the time it was also one of the shortest metro lines in the world with a length of only 5.9 km (3.7 mi).
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