How time changes things when one has not been back to his home town since 2001 and even then not really looking to see the railway station as at that time i was more concerned with my mothers health, plus i was stating with my Aunt then in Alkmaar and all that i can recall was travelling each day between Alkmaar and Amsterdam hospital to visit mum. The only time in those eight short weeks that we(my oldest brother and my youngest brother)ventured anywhere near Den Haag was on a day trip to find where we lived before the whole family left our home and emigrated to Australia in 1968.
Then in 2017 i was lucky enough to have been able to travel back Home once again and this time i was slightly shocked at how much my birth city had changed. Unfortunatly i only had a short time to visit Den Haag but the thing that stuck out in my mind the most was the great transformation of the old to the new railway station(unbeknown to me at that time) it was more a case of moving the Centrall station some 2 kilometers into the city and building a brand spanking new Station.
Then an even greater time for me was when i had an ther opertunity to travel once again to Den Haag, and this time i spent two weeks exploring my home country with a good freind who had moved back to the Netherlands in 2018, at the same time over this two week period i spent each and every morning sitting in awe in Den Haag Centraal, in Starbucks for the first two hours from 6.30 am till around 8.30 am. i was awestruck at the new station and then found out on one of my daily trips that the old staion was still in place. did not really get a chance to look around and see the front but have found some pictures of the old and new stations.

How i recall it from back in 1965ish.


And this is how i found it in 2018, such huge changes and to see trams run overhead in a train station took my breath away. Can not see that sort of advancement in Adelaide here for at least an other 100 years.