Haarlem railway station

Haarlem
Main entrance, built in the 1900s
Location	Netherlands
Coordinates	52°23′16″N 4°38′20″E / 52.38778°N 4.63889°E / 52.38778; 4.63889Coordinates: 52°23′16″N 4°38′20″E / 52.38778°N 4.63889°E / 52.38778; 4.63889
Operated by	Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Line(s)	Amsterdam–Rotterdam railway Haarlem–Uitgeest railway Haarlem–Zandvoort railway
Platforms	6
Other information
Station code	Hlm
History
Opened	20 September 1839
Services Preceding station   Nederlandse Spoorwegen   Following station Heemstede-Aerdenhout toward Den Haag Centraal NS Intercity 2100 Amsterdam Sloterdijk toward Amsterdam Centraal Heemstede-Aerdenhout toward Vlissingen NS Intercity 2200 Beverwijk toward Alkmaar NS Intercity 3400 Terminus Bloemendaal toward Hoorn NS Sprinter 4800 Haarlem Spaarnwoude toward Amsterdam Centraal Overveen toward Zandvoort NS Sprinter 5400 Heemstede-Aerdenhout toward Den Haag Centraal NS Sprinter 6300 Terminus Overveen toward Zandvoort NS Sprinter 15400
Location

Haarlem railway station is located in Haarlem, the Netherlands. The station opened at September 20, 1839 on the Amsterdam–Rotterdam railway, the first railway line in the Netherlands. The station building itself is a rijksmonument.

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 broad gauge rail width of the Dutch broad gauge 1,945 mm (6 ft 4 ⁹⁄₁₆ in). 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 metres (4 ft  8 ¹⁄₂ in) 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).