Tour et Taxis railway station
Railway Station | |||||
![]() Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis railway station | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Laeken, Brussels-Capital Region Belgium | ||||
Coordinates | 50°52′23″N 4°20′33″E / 50.8730°N 4.3425°E | ||||
Owned by | SNCB/NMBS | ||||
Operated by | SNCB/NMBS | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1883 | ||||
Closed | 1984 | ||||
Rebuilt | 2015 | ||||
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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, 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]
History
[edit]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
[edit]Train services
[edit]- Brussels RER services (S10) Dendermonde - Brussels - Denderleeuw - Aalst
Preceding station | NMBS/SNCB | Following station |
---|---|---|
Jette toward Dendermonde | S10 | Simonis toward Aalst |
See also
[edit]- List of railway stations in Belgium
- Rail transport in Belgium
- Transport in Brussels
- History of Brussels
- Tour & Taxis
References
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ Officially Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis (French: Tour et Taxis; Dutch: Thurn en Taxis)
Citations
[edit]- ^ "THURN EN TAXIS". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
External links
[edit]Media related to Thurn en Taxis station at Wikimedia Commons