| 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 | ||||||
| System | Railway Station | ||||||
| Owned by | SNCB/NMBS | ||||||
| Operated by | SNCB/NMBS | ||||||
| History | |||||||
| Opened | 1883 | ||||||
| Closed | 1984 | ||||||
| Rebuilt | 2015 | ||||||
| |||||||
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]
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.
| Preceding station | NMBS/SNCB | Following station |
|---|---|---|
| Jette toward Dendermonde | S10 | Simonis toward Aalst |