page_title: Groningen railway station
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Groningen railway station / Description / Location
caption_attribution_description: English: A group of passengers waiting in the great entrance hall
context_page_description: Groningen railway station, locally called Hoofdstation, is the main railway station in Groningen in the Province of Groningen, Netherlands. It is located on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway between Zuidhorn and Groningen Europapark, on the Meppel–Groningen railway as terminus after Groningen Europapark, and on the Groningen–Delfzijl railway as terminus after Groningen Noord.
  The first station building was completed in 1865 and demolished in 1894. The second and current station building was designed by Izaak Gosschalk, completed in 1896, and most recently restored in 2000. Train services started in 1866 and are currently provided by Nederlandse Spoorwegen and Arriva. There are 41 bus services at the station provided by Qbuzz.
context_section_description: The railway station is located at the Stationsplein in the city of Groningen in the southwest of the province of Groningen in the northeast of the Netherlands.
  Groningen is situated on the Harlingen–Nieuweschans railway, also called Staatslijn B, between the railway stations of Zuidhorn and Groningen Europapark. The distance from Groningen westward to railway terminus Harlingen Haven is 80.4 km (50.0 mi), Leeuwarden 55.5 km (34.5 mi), and Zuidhorn 11.7 km (7.3 mi), and eastward to Groningen Europapark is 1.6 km (0.99 mi), Winschoten 34 km (21 mi), and railway terminus Bad Nieuweschans 46.4 km (28.8 mi).
  Groningen is the terminus station of the Meppel–Groningen railway, also called Staatslijn C, after the railway station Groningen Europapark. The distance from Groningen southward to the railway station Groningen Europapark is 1.6 km (0.99 mi), Assen 27.6 km (17.1 mi), and the railway terminus Meppel 76.9 km (47.8 mi).
  Groningen is also the terminus station of the Groningen–Delfzijl railway before the railway station Groningen Noord. The distance from Groningen northward to the railway station Groningen Noord is 3.9 km (2.4 mi)
  and the railway terminus Delfzijl 37.8 km (23.5 mi).
  The station connects the non-electrified railways in the province of Groningen to the rest of the Dutch railway network in the south.
  Under the entry plaza is a bicycle parking garage with space for 4,150 bicycles. Combined with other nearby facilities, there is space for parking over 10,000 bicycles in the station area, as of 2010, with an estimated increase of 500 per year.
caption: Entrance Hall of the railway station
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