We have certainly been testing your patience this summer: starting in early July 2024, the northern metro track was taken out of use for seven weeks (with an overrun of two days, caused by the fact that sorting out and testing the power supply took longer than planned). We used this period to raise the height of the track across the full length of the station, between Beethovenstraat and Parnassusweg. As a result, three of the four metro platforms are now at the same height, making transfers easier.
We have captured the weeks of work on the Minervapassage and the Brittenpassage/Parnassusweg on time-lapse videos.
View seven weeks of work on the Minervapassage
View seven weeks of work on the Brittenpassage and Parnassusweg
Renovation of existing station entrance
By raising the height of the metro track, we have created space underneath the platforms in order to extend the existing station passageway, the Minervapassage, a key part of the complete regeneration of Amsterdam Zuid station. In the future, the passageway will be almost twice as tall: 4 m instead of the current 2.5 m. The railway tracks are already at the right height for that, but the metro tracks not yet. The two middle tracks for metro line 52 (the North/South line) had been moved earlier. As mentioned above, we increased the height of the northern metro track this summer. Next year (2025), the most southerly metro track will follow, bringing all of the tracks to the right height. In 2027 at the latest, we will begin work renovating the Minervapassage underneath the tracks.
2027: new station entrance and ‘reversal’ of metro platforms
During the renovation work, the Minervapassage will be completely closed, which means a new station entrance is needed. This will be the new Brittenpassage – Amsterdam Zuid station’s additional passageway that will open in 2027 at the latest. The Brittenpassage will be on the other side of the station, next to Parnassusweg. The railway platforms are already there, between the existing and future passageways. But the same does not yet apply to the metro platforms – they are currently still on the wrong side of the existing Minervapassage. Starting in 2025, we will therefore also be building new metro platforms between the passageways, ensuring that all of the railway and metro platforms are alongside each other. The new metro platforms will not be brought into use until the opening of the Brittenpassage, in 2027 at the latest, after the removal of the existing metro platforms.
Working in four places from 6 July until 26 August
In order to raise the height of the metro track, we had to work in four different places at Amsterdam Zuid station. In Beethovenstraat, we raised the height of the metro viaduct on the east side of the station. We installed a new roof above the existing Minervapassage and the new Brittenpassage. And in Parnassusweg, on the west side of the station, we built a new metro viaduct.
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