Namur railway station

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Namur
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Railway Station
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Namur railway station
General information
LocationPlace de la Station,
5000 Namur
Belgium
Coordinates 50°28′09″N4°51′45″E / 50.46913°N 4.86247°E / 50.46913; 4.86247
Elevation90 m
Owned by SNCB/NMBS
Operated by SNCB/NMBS
Line(s) 125, 130, 154, 161, 162
Platforms6
Tracks11
Other information
Station codeFNR
History
Opened23 October 1843;180 years ago (1843-10-23)
Passengers
20097.11 million
Namur railway station
Location
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Namur
Location within Belgium
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Namur
Namur (Europe)

Namur railway station (French : Gare de Namur, Dutch : Station Namen) [lower-alpha 1] is the main railway station serving Namur, Belgium. The station is used by 18,600 people every day, making it the eighth-busiest station in Belgium and the busiest in Wallonia. [1] It is operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS). [2]

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History

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Namur railway station in 1904
Sortie de la gare, Namur, 1938 photograph by Leonard Misonne Misonne, Station Namen.jpg
Sortie de la gare, Namur, 1938 photograph by Léonard Misonne

The first railway connection to Namur was inaugurated in 1843, when the Belgian State Railways (Chemins de fer de l'État Belge) opened an indirect line from Brussels to Charleroi (via Braine-le-Comte), continuing to Namur. In 1850, the Compagnie du Nord-Belge inaugurated line 125, connecting Namur to Liège. In 1856, a third company reached Namur (Grande compagnie du Luxembourg) with a direct link to Brussels with line 161. Two years later, the company opened line 162 Namur–Arlon–Luxembourg. In 1862, the Nord-Belge created line 154 Namur–Dinant. The current station building was inaugurated in 1864. In 1869, the Belgian State Railways put into service a sixth line (142) connecting Namur to Tienen; line 142 was completely closed in 1988.

At the end of the 1990s, the passenger building was restored and enlarged by a slab covering the tracks. The station was served by a daily Thalys high-speed rail service to Paris between 1998 and 31 March 2015. [3] With the commissioning of the Schuman-Josaphat tunnel in Brussels on 3 April 2016, Namur obtained a direct link with Brussels Airport.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:

Preceding station SNCB logo.svg NMBS/SNCB Following station
Gembloux
towards Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid
IC 16 Ciney
towards Luxembourg
Gembloux
towards Brussels National Airport
IC 17
weekdays
 Jambes
towards Dinant
Gembloux
towards Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid
IC 17
weekends
IC 18
weekdays
 Andenne
towards Liège-Saint-Lambert
Tamines
towards Lille-Flandres
IC 19 Terminus
Jemeppe-sur-Sambre
towards Mons
IC 25
weekdays, except holidays
 Andenne
towards Herstal
Jemeppe-sur-Sambre
towards Mouscron
IC 25
weekends
 Andenne
towards Liers
Terminus L 01 Marche-les-Dames
towards Liège-Guillemins
Rhisnes
towards Ottignies
L 08 Terminus
Terminus L 11 Jambes
towards Libramont
Ronet
towards Ottignies
L 14
weekdays, except holidays
 Jambes
Terminus
L 14
weekends
Terminus
Terminus L 16
weekdays, except holidays
 Jambes-Est
towards Assesse
L 16
weekends
 Jambes-Est
towards Ciney
Preceding station TER Hauts-de-France Following station
Charleroi-South
towards Maubeuge
Krono
K82
Terminus

In addition to the above services, additional peak time trains are scheduled on weekdays (mornings and end of afternoons).

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References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Officially Namur (French: Namur, Dutch: Namen)

Citations

  1. ↑ lavenir.net (20 November 2013). "Bruxelles-Midi est la gare la plus fréquentée du pays, Namur 1re wallonne" (in French).
  2. ↑ "NAMUR". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  3. ↑ Dries De Smet (31 March 2015). "Thalys doet laatste keer Oostende en Namen aan" [Thalys stops at Ostend and Namur for the last time]. De Standaard (in Dutch).
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