On November 6 and November 26, 1944,
The station of Gouda was bombed by the Allies. The St-Jozef Pavilion hospital and houses on Boelekade and Graaf van Bloisstraat were also struck. In total, at least 25 people died, including 12 nurses from the hospital.
The attack missed its purpose because the rail junction was not significantly damaged, and the railway tunnel was full of rubble and water and the main building was completely destroyed. The bombshard impacts are visible in a number of steel beams in the roof of the platform. Gouda still has to take caution because of unexploded bombs in the ground, so-called duds, when they working around the rail junction and the station.
Another outlook on the train station: a bomb shower on the station