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Beurs is a major subway interchange station in the center of
Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...
. Underneath Churchill Square (Dutch: ''Churchillplein''), the two lines through the city center (lines A-B-C and lines D-E) intersect. Passengers for '' Rotterdam Central Station'' change here to line D or E if they started their journey on line A, B, or C. All destinations within the network are accessible from ''Beurs''. Since December 2011, it has also been incorporated into the new
RandstadRail RandstadRail () is a tram-train network in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area in the west of the Netherlands that is jointly operated by HTM Personenvervoer (HTM) and Rotterdamse Elektrische Tram (RET). It connects the cities of Rott ...
network, resulting in a direct connection to
The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...
(line E).


History

One of the oldest railway stations in Rotterdam was called Beurs, but that station was on the location where in 1953 Rotterdam Blaak was built. The metro station Beurs opened on 9 February 1968 on the North-South Line (also temporarily called Erasmuslijn). On 6 May 1982 a new station, ''Churchillplein'', was opened nearby on the new ''East-West Line'' (also temporarily Calandlijn). Both stations were connected by an underground walkway. In 2000, this separate naming was abandoned. For a while, signs in the East-West Line-portion of the station still had 'Churchillplein' in a smaller font below 'Beurs', but this has been removed. In 2002, the capacity of Beurs metrostation was doubled. In 2018, Beurs was the busiest metrostation of the Netherlands with 128.000 transit passengers per day. For 2024, another renovation was proposed.


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Rotterdam Metro stations RandstadRail stations in Rotterdam Railway stations in the Netherlands opened in 1968 {{Rotterdam-metro-stub