Five years later, in 1899, however, there was a major incident when a steam locomotive from Amsterdam with faulty brakes broke through the platform and into the station buffet.

Reconstruction took place between October 1949 and September 1950 to a design by architect Sybold van Ravesteyn (1889-1983), whose neo-baroque style is clearly recognisable in the building.

In the eastern part of the main building is a station buffet, with a small raised terrace in front with low stone balustrade.

The building includes Ravesteyn's characteristic details, like round tilted windows, decorations on the cornices and statues on the facade.

On the outer walls of the station are four ceramic images by Jo Uiterwaal (1897-1972) with representations that refer to the railway and the province of Zeeland.

For a long time on the west side of the booking hall there was a bureau de change; after the closure of this at the end of 2001 this part of the station was brought back to its original state.

The station would then be near to the HZ University of Applied Sciences, around which the municipality of Vlissingen wants to develop as a centre of knowledge and innovation.

The plans to move the station met with great resistance in Zeelandic Flanders, because the immediate transition between ferry and train would be lost.

Vlissingen station is directly connected to eight provincial capitals, namely Middelburg, The Hague and Lelystad, and several times a day also Assen, Zwolle, Leeuwarden and Groningen.