Strandvliet
5054- Opened
- October 1977
- Level
- Elevated
- District
- Zuidoost
- lines
- 50 54
Where does the name come from?
The station is named after the Strandvliet area in Zuidoost. Where that name itself comes from could not be confirmed in a source.
The story
A quiet stop on the very first metro line
Strandvliet sits on Boris Pasternakstraat, in the corner of Zuidoost where the Venserpolder begins. It is an elevated station with two tracks and a central island platform, typical of the East Line as it was laid out through the new Bijlmermeer in the 1970s.
The stop belongs to the first generation: in October 1977 Amsterdam's metro carried passengers for the first time, from Weesperplein to Gaasperplas and to Holendrecht. Strandvliet lay on that second branch, the Gein line, which replaced the old bus route 55. Trains did not reach Centraal Station until 1980.
Today two lines call here. Line 54 runs between Centraal Station and Gein, and since 1997 orbital line 50 has also used this stretch, running via Duivendrecht and Amsterdam Zuid to Isolatorweg. That links quiet Strandvliet directly to both the city centre and the west of the city.
In 1977 the metro did not yet reach Centraal Station; that section only opened in October 1980.
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