Breda railway station

Breda
Location	Netherlands
Coordinates	51°35′42″N 4°46′48″E / 51.59500°N 4.78000°E / 51.59500; 4.78000Coordinates: 51°35′42″N 4°46′48″E / 51.59500°N 4.78000°E / 51.59500; 4.78000
Line(s)	Breda–Rotterdam railway Roosendaal–Breda railway Breda–Eindhoven railway
Platforms	7
Connections	Arriva: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 115, 117, 119, 122, 123, 131, 132, 145, 311, 312, 316, 325, 326, 327, 401, 402, 617, 618 Connexxion: 19 Eurolines
Other information
Station code	Bd
History
Opened	May 1, 1855
Services
Preceding station   NS International   Following station Rotterdam Centraal toward Amsterdam Centraal Intercity Direct 900 2x/hour Terminus Nederlandse Spoorwegen Rotterdam Centraal toward Den Haag Centraal NS Intercity 1100 2x/hour; Until April 2017 Terminus NS Intercity 1100 2x/hour; From April 2017 Tilburg toward Eindhoven Dordrecht Terminus NS Intercity 2300 1x/hour; Not on evenings and weekends Terminus Etten-Leur toward Roosendaal NS Intercity 3600 2x/hour Tilburg toward Zwolle Terminus NS Intercity 11100 2x/hour; Until April 2017 Tilburg toward Eindhoven Dordrecht toward Rotterdam Centraal NS Nachtnet 21400 1x/hour; Nighttrain Intercity service, Friday Night and Saturday Night until +/- 2:00am only Breda-Prinsenbeek toward Dordrecht NS Sprinter 6600 2x/hour Gilze-Rijen toward 's-Hertogenbosch
Location
Breda Location within the Netherlands

Breda is a railway station in Breda, Netherlands. It is situated on the Breda–Rotterdam railway, the Roosendaal–Breda railway and the Breda–Eindhoven railway.

The first station was opened on May 1, 1855 as the eastern terminus of the Roosendaal–Breda railway. When the line was extended to Tilburg, a new station was built on the same site in 1863. The station was initially run solely by a Belgian company, the Société Anonyme des chemins de fer d'Anvers à Rotterdam until the opening of the line to Tilburg from Staatsspoorwegen (Dutch State Railways), which changed after the merger between that company with the HSM in 1938 to Nederlandse Spoorwegen. In the 1970s, the station was rebuilt in combination with being placed on a viaduct. This station was opened on October 10, 1975 and designed by architect Hans (J.) Bak. The station was recognisable by its design with a large canopy over the two platforms with four tracks. The regional bus station next to the station had the same canopy type.

From April 4, 2011, the high-speed train Fyra from Amsterdam Centraal stops in Breda. This service was renamed in December 2013 to Intercity Direct because of the earlier problems with the V250 rolling stock.

On May 30, 2012, the Minister of Infrastructure Melanie Schultz van Haegen officially launched the project Via Breda, which includes another total reconstruction of the station. On September 6, 2014 at 05:30 (AM), a new pedestrian tunnel was opened alongside the northern part of the station building. The old southern station building will be demolished, as well as the regional and city bus stations. The buses were replaced to the northern side on new elevated bus platforms when the old southern part of the station was closed in the night between September 6 and 7 after the last night train departed. The project is expected to be completed in 2016, when the southern part of the new station will be opened.