Westwijk tram stop

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Westwijk
Tramhalte Westwijk 2020 2.jpg
Low-floor trams at Westwijk
General information
LocationWestwijk, Amstelveen
Netherlands
Coordinates 52°16′28″N4°49′50″E / 52.27444°N 4.83056°E / 52.27444; 4.83056
Owned by GVB
Platforms1 centre platform
Tracks2
Other information
Website GVB: Westwijk
History
Opened13 Sept 2004 as metro line 51 [1]
Closed3 March 2019 [1]
Rebuilt13 December 2020 for tram line 25 [2]
Services
Preceding station Amsterdam Tram Following station
Sacharovlaan
towards Station Zuid
Line 25 Terminus
Former services
Preceding station Amsterdam Metro Following station
Sacharovlaan
towards Centraal Station
Line 51Terminus

Westwijk is a tram stop serving the neighborhood of Westwijk in the city of Amstelveen, Netherlands. It is the southern terminus of tram line 25, dubbed the Amsteltram before it received its line number. It opened officially on 13 December 2020, unofficially 4 days earlier on 9 December. [3] [2]

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History

Westwijk was earlier the former terminus of metro line 51, a hybrid metro/sneltram (light rail) service, that opened to Westwijk in 2004. Like a metro, the sneltram used high-level platforms. Metro service south of Amsterdam Zuid station was closed in 2019 to lower platforms to accommodate the new low-floor trams for line 25. [1]

When the 2004 extension of metro line 51 was built, it used 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) of the roadbed of the scrapped Bovenkerk –Uithoorn railway line, one of the former Haarlemmermeer railway lines. The section of the line on which the Westwijk and Sacharovlaan stops sit was opened in 1915 and was in use as a railway line until 1950. The Haarlemmermeer railway's Legmeerpolder station was just south of the Westwijk stop at J.C. van Hattumweg. Today the dwelling for the station's level crossing guard (baanwachter) exists today on the east side of the tram tracks, north of J.C. van Hattumweg. [4]

Metro line 51 sneltram (light rail tram) at Westwijk in 2011 Sneltram Westwijk Amstelveen S1s2.jpg
Metro line 51 sneltram (light rail tram) at Westwijk in 2011

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Vosman, Quintus (5 March 2019). "Dutch start reconstruction of Amstelveen LRT" (pdf). International Rail Journal.
  2. 1 2 "Meereizen met lijn 25 al mogelijk vanaf woensdag 9 december" (in Dutch). Gemeente Vervoerbedrijf. 9 December 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-12-08. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  3. ↑ "Vernieuwing Amstelveenlijn: waarom nodig en wat gaat er gebeuren?". Amstelveenlijn (in Dutch). 26 November 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-09-24. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Bovenkerk –Uithoorn" (in Dutch). Martijn van Vulpen. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
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