Vlaardingen Centrum metro station

Metro station in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands

Preceding station	Rotterdam Metro			Following station
Vlaardingen West Terminus		Line A Only during peak periods		Vlaardingen Oost towards Binnenhof
Vlaardingen West towards Hoek van Holland Strand		Line B		Vlaardingen Oost towards Nesselande

Location
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Vlaardingen Centrum is a metro station in Vlaardingen in the Netherlands. The station is located on the Schiedam–Hoek van Holland railway.

History

Vlaardingen Centrum was first opened as a train station on 17 August 1891.

The Nederlandse Spoorwegen stopped operating the line, including Vlaardingen Centrum railway station, on 1 April 2017 to enable conversion for metro train operations. The station was reopened by RET on 30 September 2019, with preview services operating on 28 September.^[1] The station had a yard connected that was used during the early days of the Schiedam-Hoek van Holland railway (Hoekse Lijn). Later the yard got abandoned and removed during the train-metro transition.

Metro services

As of 2019, Vlaardingen Centrum is served by 6 trains per hour on RET Metro Line B, of which 3 per hour travel the full length of the route, and 3 travel only as far as Steendijkpolder^[1]

During peak periods, the station is also served by Line A, with 6 trains per hour travelling as far as Vlaardingen West.