Utrecht Central Station
Utrecht Centraal Station

The biggest train station in the Netherlands is located in the heart of the country.

With almost 210.000 passengers, more than 1000 departures a day and 16 platforms, Utrecht Central Station is the busiest train station of the country.

• The location of the station makes it the most important railway hub of the Netherlands, which is also why it is the biggest train station.
• Utrecht Central is 25.000 square meters, which is equivalent to five football fields!

In 1843, the first train station in Utrecht was opened. It changed a couple of times, but in 1938 there was a huge fire that destroyed everything. Everything had to be rebuilt, and as a memorial of this, there was a statue of a phoenix on top of the building for a long time.

In the 1960’s, the city started building Hoog Catharijne, a mall that was connected to the train station until 2018. Between 2016 and 2018 they reconstructed the mall, and from this moment the station got its own entrance.