Nesselande is a station on Line B of the
Rotterdam Metro and is situated in
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...
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Nesselande
Nesselande is a new extension on the east side of the city of Rotterdam, in South Holland, the Netherlands. It is part of the borough of Prins Alexander, formerly Zevenhuizen-Moerkapelle.
Nesselande consists of three development areas: Tuinst ...
. It is the northern terminus of the line.
The station, designed by architect
Hans Moor, was opened on 29 August 2005 as part of the one-station extension of the East-West Line or Caland Line from its previous terminus
De Tochten. Unlike the section between
Capelsebrug and De Tochten, this section does not use overhead wires to provide traction power, but uses a
third rail
A third rail, also known as a live rail, electric rail or conductor rail, is a method of providing electric power to a railway locomotive or train, through a semi-continuous rigid conductor placed alongside or between the rails of a railway ...
instead. The station consists of one island platform between two tracks.
Rotterdam Metro stations located above ground
Railway stations opened in 2005
2005 establishments in the Netherlands
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