Schaarbeek railway station

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Schaerbeek

Schaarbeek
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Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek railway station
General information
LocationPlace Princesse Elisabeth / Prinses Elisabethplein
B-1030 Schaerbeek, Brussels-Capital Region
Belgium
Coordinates 50°52′41″N4°22′46″E / 50.87806°N 4.37944°E / 50.87806; 4.37944
Owned by SNCB/NMBS
Operated by SNCB/NMBS
Line(s) 25, 27, 28, 36, 161
Platforms13
Other information
Station codeSCHA
History
Opened1887;136 years ago (1887)
Schaarbeek railway station
Location
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Location within Belgium
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Schaerbeek railway station (French : Gare de Schaerbeek) or Schaarbeek railway station (Dutch : Station Schaarbeek) [lower-alpha 1] is a railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1887. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).

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Located to the north-east of Brussels, the station mainly serves trains travelling between central Brussels and Leuven, Antwerp or Brussels Airport-Zaventem. On these routes, it is the first station trains pass through after the North–South connection (Brussels-North, Brussels-Central and Brussels-South stations). Although only local trains stop at Schaerbeek, the station also serves as a terminus for a number of interregional and peak-hour services. As it connects both to the North–South connection and to line 28 through Brussels-West station, it is the point at which trains can be rerouted to reverse direction.

The square in front of the station serves as terminus for Brussels tram route 92, as well as bus route 69. Bus routes 58 and 59 also stop there.

History and building

Ticket offices inside the station building in 2009 prior to its incorporation into Train World TicketOfficesInsideSchaerbeekStation.jpg
Ticket offices inside the station building in 2009 prior to its incorporation into Train World

The station building, in Flemish neo-Renaissance style, was designed by the architect Franz Seulen and built in two phases: the left wing around 1890 and the main (right) wing in 1913. The building was listed as a monument by the Brussels-Capital Region in 1994 and the facades have been restored. Before its closure in 2013, the building was largely disused though ticket counters were open for a limited time every weekday and concessions had been closed since the demise of the motorail services. [1] Nowadays, the station is unstaffed with ticket machines at the entrance.

The station is relatively large, with 13 platforms, numbered from 3 to 15. Tracks 1 and 2 were used in the past for motorail services carrying passenger cars to destinations mainly in Southern France. These were transferred to Denderleeuw railway station in 2000, and eventually discontinued in 2003. Schaerbeek station lies to the south-west of extensive railway grounds including a goods station and a traction workshop.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):

Preceding station SNCB logo.svg NMBS/SNCB Following station
Buda
towards Antwerpen-Centraal
S 1
weekdays
 Bruxelles-Nord / Brussel-Noord
towards Nivelles
Vilvoorde
towards Antwerpen-Centraal
S 1
weekends
 Bruxelles-Nord / Brussel-Noord
towards Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid
Haren-South
towards Leuven
S 2
Bruxelles-Nord / Brussel-Noord
towards Braine-le-Comte
Terminus S 6
Bruxelles-Nord / Brussel-Noord
towards Aalst
S 81
weekdays
 Brussels-Schuman
towards Ottignies

Train World

Train World, the new national railway museum of Belgium, is located at Schaarbeek railway station, incorporating the station building, and was open to the public for the first time on 25 September 2015, having been formally opened the previous day by H.M. King Philippe. [2] So far €20.5 million has been invested into the project, which plans to attract 100,000 visitors per year from its third year of operations onwards. [3] [4]

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References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Officially Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek (French: Schaerbeek, Dutch: Schaarbeek)

Citations

  1. ↑ "Gerestaureerde gevels verhullen lege binnenkant". 5 January 2005. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007.
  2. ↑ "The Brussels Times - Flagship pieces of Belgian railway brought together in Schaerbeek". Archived from the original on 28 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Train World (Open May 2015)
  4. ↑ Robinson, Frances (19 March 2013). "Belgian Train Museum Had a Hard Time Getting on Track". The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 3 April 2013.
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