Railway Station | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Place de la Station, 5000 Namur Belgium | ||||
Coordinates | 50°28′09″N4°51′45″E / 50.46913°N 4.86247°E | ||||
Elevation | 90 m | ||||
Owned by | SNCB/NMBS | ||||
Operated by | SNCB/NMBS | ||||
Line(s) | 125, 130, 154, 161, 162 | ||||
Platforms | 6 | ||||
Tracks | 11 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | FNR | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 23 October 1843 | ||||
Passengers | |||||
2009 | 7.11 million | ||||
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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]
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.
The station is served by the following services:
Preceding station | NMBS/SNCB | Following station | ||
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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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