Hoek van Holland Strand is a railway station in Hoek van Holland

Hoek van Holland

The Hook of Holland , also known in English as the Hook, is a town in South Holland in the Netherlands. It is situated on the North Sea coast, on the north bank of the Nieuwe Waterweg ship canal. The town is administered by the municipality of Rotterdam as a district of that city...

, the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. The railway station consists of two tracks on a bay platform

Bay platform

Bay platform is a railway-related term commonly used in the UK and Australia to describe a dead-end platform at a railway station that has through lines...

, and is the final station on the Schiedam–Hoek van Holland railway, the rail connection between Hoek van Holland and Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

. The railway station was opened on June 1, 1893. Its name is derived from the nearby North Sea

North Sea

In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...

 beach, strand being Dutch

Dutch language

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 for “beach

Beach

A beach is a geological landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river. It usually consists of loose particles which are often composed of rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles or cobblestones...

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From April to October all trains to Hoek van Holland between 8 am and 9 pm have Hoek van Holland Strand as final destination. These trains operate twice an hour. Trains before 8 am and after 9 pm terminate at Hoek van Holland Haven. From November to March only between 11 am and 4 pm, 1 train an hour calls at Hoek van Holland Strand. The other trains terminate at Hoek van Holland Haven.

Train services

The following services call at Hoek van Holland Strand:

• 2x per hour local service (sprinter) Hoek van Holland - Rotterdam