Tour et Taxis railway station

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Tour et Taxis
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Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis railway station
General information
Location Laeken, Brussels-Capital Region
Belgium
Coordinates 50°52′23″N4°20′33″E / 50.8730°N 4.3425°E / 50.8730; 4.3425
System Railway Station
Owned by SNCB/NMBS
Operated by SNCB/NMBS
History
Opened1883;142 years ago (1883)
Closed1984;41 years ago (1984)
Rebuilt2015;10 years ago (2015)
Location
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Location within Belgium
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Tour et Taxis railway station

Tour et Taxis railway station (French : Gare de Tour et Taxis) or Thurn en Taxis railway station (Dutch : Station Thurn en Taxis) [a] is a railway station in Laeken, in the north-west of the City of Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1883. The train station, located on the Rue Charles Demeer/Charles Demeerstraat, occupies the same site as Pannenhuis metro station on line 6 of the Brussels Metro. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB). [1]

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History

The station was opened on 1 May 1883 as Pannenhuis and later renamed to Brussels North-West. The station closed down on 3 June 1984, but reopened in 2015 as part of the Brussels Regional Express Network (RER/GEN) project under the name Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis.

Connections

Train services

Preceding station NMBS/SNCB Following station
Jette

toward Dendermonde

S10 Simonis

toward Aalst

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. Officially Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis (French: Tour et Taxis; Dutch: Thurn en Taxis)

Citations

  1. "THURN EN TAXIS". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 1 December 2023.