Kronenburg is a tram stop within the city of Amstelveen, Netherlands. The stop serves tram lines 5 and 25. Line 25, dubbed the Amsteltram before receiving its line number, opened officially on 13 December 2020, unofficially 4 days earlier on 9 December.[1][2]
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.jpg) Kronenburg stop located under a traffic roundabout | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Beneluxbaan & Kronenburg, Amstelveen Netherlands | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°18′59.6″N 4°52′12.0″E / 52.316556°N 4.870000°E | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 centre platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Website | GVB: Kronenburg | |||||||||||||||
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| Rebuilt | 2019–2020 | |||||||||||||||
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The stop is located in an open trench below street level, and resembles a station; it has a centre platform with stairs and a glass-walled elevator leading up to street level. Bridges above the stop carry automobile traffic over the tram line via a roundabout, and there are also two traffic lanes running under the roundabout parallel to each side of the tram tracks. This stop is similar in design to those at the Zonnestein and Sportlaan tram stops. On 9 March 2020, the roundabout above the Kronenburg stop was opened.[3][4]
Before being rebuilt in 2019 and 2020, the stop used to serve both the low-floor trams of tram line 5 plus the high-floor trams of metro line 51, a hybrid metro/sneltram (light rail) service that opened in 1990. Both lines 5 and 51 shared the same pair of tracks but used separate, adjacent platforms. There were a pair of low-level platforms for line 5 and a separate pair of high-level platforms for line 51, with stairs connecting the two platform levels. Unlike the current stop, the old stop was located at street level and tracks used to cross the street Kronenburg at grade. In 2019, metro line 51 service south of Amsterdam Zuid station was terminated to rebuild stations to accommodate only the low-floor trams of lines 5 and 25.[5][1]
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Kronenburg station in 2009 prior to demolition and rebuilding -
Kronenburg stop (under the bridge in background) after rebuilding
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References
edit- ^ a b "Vernieuwing Amstelveenlijn: waarom nodig en wat gaat er gebeuren?". Amstelveenlijn (in Dutch). 26 November 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-09-24. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "Meereizen met lijn 25 al mogelijk vanaf woensdag 9 december" (in Dutch). Gemeente Vervoerbedrijf. 9 December 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-12-08. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
- ^ van der Meulen, Wendy (10 January 2020). "Ombouwen verkeerssituaties Kronenburg en Zonnestein". Amstelveenlijn (in Dutch). City of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 29 March 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.}
- ^ Opdam, Danielle (14 August 2020). "Hoera! Kruispunt Sportlaan is open". Amstelveenlijn (in Dutch). City of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 31 August 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.}
- ^ Vosman, Quintus (5 March 2019). "Dutch start reconstruction of Amstelveen LRT" (pdf). International Rail Journal.