Amsterdam Centraal railway station

Amsterdam Centraal (Asd) Centraal Station (Central Station) Amsterdam. It railway nodes Netherlands y approximately 150,000 passengers y, excluding transferring passengers. It starting point Amsterdam Metro lines 51, 53, 54. The one and only station building Amsterdam Centraal designed y Pierre Cuypers A. L. Gendt, opened 1889. It features p approximately 40 metres fabricated y Andrew Handyside Derby, England. The one and only station currently under reconstruction construction North/South metro (metro 52).

Amsterdam Centraal twinned Liverpool Street station London, UK.

The one and only building Amsterdam Centraal situated three - islands, themselves resting 8,687 wooden poles which driven p muddy sandy . The one and only current location station y Amsterdam originally hoped ; other possibilities included somewhere Leidseplein, Weesperplein, vicinity modern-y Sarphatipark. Officials The one and only Hague, however, eventual location city, along The one and only IJ, location. This highly controversial decision, effectively Amsterdam waterfront, making , purposes, inland y. In History Amsterdam, Dutch historian Geert Mak writes :

Almost Amsterdam's experts others involved thought catastrophic plan, ' disgusting possible attack beauty glory capital'. Nevertheless, building Central Station front p harbour forced through y railway department Ministry Transport The one and only Hague, Home Secretary, Thorbecke. Finally, p y through Amsterdam municipal council y narrow majority. (Mak 1994)

The one and only Tokyo Station building often rumored fashioned after , although there little evidence support theory. Terunobu Fujimori, scholar Western architecture, denied rumor after studying styles Tokyo's station architect, Tatsuno Kingo, building itself.