Nijmegen Train Station
Nijmegen
2020-2027
Nijmegen Train Station
Nijmegen
2020-2027
Expansion of Nijmegen Train Station
Client: ProRail, Municipality of Nijmegen
Architecture: Office Winhov
Engineering: Arcadis
Light design: Atelier Lek
Landscape design: Municipality of Nijmegen
Office Winhov Team: Jan Peter Wingender, Caroline Versteden, Carlo van Steen
Visualisations: Nanopixel
Nijmegen Train Station
Nijmegen
2020-2027

As part of the 'High-Frequency Rail Programme', Nijmegen Station will be extensively renovated and expanded in the coming years. The station can be regarded as a 'guest' on a lateral moraine – a unique landscape phenomenon. This local topography long formed a natural boundary, but with the westward expansion of the city, the station has now become central. In addition to a significant height difference, the station also has a complex architectural history in which the remains of the original station by C.H. Peters was incorporated by Sybold van Ravesteyn after WWII into a new and monumental station. Office Winhov, together with Arcadis, have been commissioned as the architects for the renewed platform tunnel and entrances, the extra roofed platform, and the new western entrance. The new wooden platform roof follows the 100-year-old 'Zollinger' construction technique, which makes the relatively thin dimensions of the CLT truss parts possible. The new entrance is conceived as a pavilion in the green surroundings where the new bicycle parking is being placed under the station square with direct access to the cycle path on the Tunnelweg. The station square and the immediate surroundings are designed to fit with the natural landscape of the lateral moraine.

Nijmegen Train Station
Nijmegen
2020-2027
Design of the new West entrance
Overview western entrance seen from raised square
1954, station's tower east side, Sybold van Ravesteyn
1968, view Nijmegen Train Station
Restoration of the historic platform roofs
Overview western entrance seen from Tunnelweg
Overview of the western entrance seen from Tunnelweg
Overview of the interventions for the expansion of the station Overview of the interventions for the expansion of the station Overview of the interventions for the expansion of the station Overview of the interventions for the expansion of the station
Overview of the interventions for the expansion of the station
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New wooden platform roofs, based on the Zollinger principle
New wooden platform roofs, based on the Zollinger principle
Design principle of the new platform roofs
The new station's tunnel connecting east and west The new station's tunnel connecting east and west
The new station's tunnel connecting east and west
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The new station hall of the western entrance
The station as part of the topography