Heemstedestraat
5051- Opened
- 1 June 1997
- Level
- Elevated
- District
- Nieuw-West
- lines
- 50 51
Where does the name come from?
The station is named after Heemstedestraat, the street beside it.
The story
The stop for offices and the World Fashion Centre
Heemstedestraat is one of the Ring Line stations that opened in 1997. The city council approved the line in 1992, and construction began that same year. For political reasons the project was then called a 'ring rapid tram' rather than a metro. Overhead wires were originally planned between Zuid and Sloterdijk, but that idea was dropped: the whole line runs on a third rail.
The start was bumpy. Because of problems with rolling stock and signalling, trains ran only every fifteen minutes in June 1997. After the summer that improved to every ten minutes, and the full service only began with the winter timetable. Bus 48, which the Ring Line replaced, was withdrawn.
Apart from Sloterdijk and Lelylaan, the Ring Line stations look very much alike. Like the others, Heemstedestraat has one island platform with two tracks. It serves many offices in the area, including the World Fashion Centre. Since March 2019 line 51 has called here too.
In the first months after it opened in 1997, the Ring Line ran only every fifteen minutes because of rolling stock and signalling problems.
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