Sloterdijk
5051- Opened
- 1 June 1997
- Level
- Elevated
- District
- Westpoort
- lines
- 50 51
Where does the name come from?
The station is named after Sloterdijk, still a small village when the first railway station opened here in 1956. The metro station shares its name with the national rail station next to it.
The story
From village halt to interchange hub
The metro is the newest resident of Sloterdijk station. The railway story begins in 1956, with a station slightly south of today's site, when Sloterdijk was still a village. In 1983 the line to Zaandam was rerouted through the Hemtunnel and the current station appeared, at first under the name Sloterdijk Noord. The old station was then called Sloterdijk Zuid until it closed in 1985, when the Haarlem line also moved to the new complex. The Schiphol line followed in 1986, with elevated platforms.
The metro arrived in 1997 with the Ring Line, which runs alongside the railway towards Holendrecht. The metro has two platforms of its own, above ground and reached through the station hall. Since March 2019 line 51 has called here as well as line 50.
The station also has darker pages. On 21 April 2012 two passenger trains collided head-on between Centraal and Sloterdijk, injuring 117 people; one driver had passed a red signal.
Today's station opened in 1983 as Sloterdijk Noord; the old one carried on for two more years as Sloterdijk Zuid.
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