Brussels-South railway station: Difference between revisions

Gare du Midi
Zuidstation
; Gare du Midi; Zuidstation
General information
Owned by	STIB/MIVB
Connections	Line 3 Line 4
History
Opened	1988
Services

Brussels-South
Brussels-South
Railway Station
General information
Coordinates	50°50′07″N 4°20′07″E / 50.835161°N 4.335222°E
Owned by	National Railway Company of Belgium
Line(s)	0, 50A, 96, 124
Platforms	22
Other information
Station code	FBMZ
History
Opened	1952

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Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid (English: Brussels South, IATA code: ZYR) is the biggest railway station in Brussels, capital of Belgium. The station's bilingual French-Dutch name is often shortened outside Belgium – for example, in the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable — to the (tri-lingual) "Brussels Midi/Zuid". The station is served by the Gare du Midi/Zuidstation station on the Brussels Metro system. 1,000 trains pass every day between Brussels-South and Brussels-North railway stations.

The railway station

The railway station designed by Payen opened in 1869, though a former station known as Station des Bogards/Bogaardenstation existed since 1840 near the Place Rouppeplein in the southern part of the city. It was demolished 29 years later as it was already too small. In 1949 Payen's 1869 terminal station was itself demolished and replaced by a through station on the present site, a short distance south of the original one, as part of the North-South connection project. The station is surrounded by the Avenue Fonsny/Fonsnylaan in the East, the Rue de France/Frankrijkstraat in the West, the Rue Couverte/Bedektestraat in the North and the Rue des Vétérinaires/Veeartsenstraat in the South. In the 1990s, the Eurostar terminal was added on the Rue de France/Frankrijkstraat side. This contains two bay platforms with no onward northbound connection.

TGV and Thalys share a platform at Brussels-South Station

Eurostar services

Legend

Dortmund

Essen

Duisburg

Düsseldorf Airport

Netherlands

Belgium

Germany

Belgium

Antwerpen-Centraal

Liège

London

Brussels

Channel Tunnel

UK

France

Belgium

France

Lille

Paris

summer seasonal service

winter seasonal service

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Valence TGV

Moûtiers-Salins-Brides-les-Bains

Marseille-Saint-Charles

Aime-La Plagne

Landry

Bourg-Saint-Maurice

Direct cross-Channel

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Direct cross-Channel

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The metro and premetro station

The metro station, called Gare du Midi - Zuidstation, opened in 1988 as (at that time) the final stop of metro line 2 from Simonis. Line 2 has since been extended beyond Brussels-South - to Clemenceau in 1993, Delacroix in 2006, and Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation in 2009. Since 1993 the station also accommodates pre-metro (underground tram) services at separate platforms, with cross-platform interchange between metro and pre-metro in both directions.

Following the restructuring of the city's local public transport network in April 2009, the station is now served by two metro lines (2 and 6) as well as two pre-metro lines (3 and 4). It lies under the Rue Couverte/Overdektestraat, in front of the mainline station.

Places of interest

The tallest building in Belgium stands in front of the main exit from the station (the crossroad of Avenue Fonsnylaan and Rue Couverte/Overdekte straat) and is named the South Tower.

External links

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v t e Brussels Metro
Line 1	Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Beekkant Étangs Noirs/Zwarte Vijvers Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne De Brouckère Gare Centrale/Centraal Station Parc/Park Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet Maelbeek/Maalbeek Schuman Merode Montgomery Joséphine-Charlotte Gribaumont Tomberg Roodebeek Vandervelde Alma Kraainem/Crainhem Stockel/Stokkel
Line 2	Elisabeth Ribaucourt Yser/IJzer Rogier Botanique/Kruidtuin Madou Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet Trône/Troon Porte de Namur/Naamsepoort Louise/Louiza Hôtel des Monnaies/Munthof Porte de Hal/Hallepoort Gare du Midi/Zuidstation Clemenceau Delacroix Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Beekkant Osseghem/Ossegem Simonis
Line 3	Esplanade —— Rogier De Brouckère Bourse/Beurs Anneessens Lemonnier Gare du Midi/Zuidstation Porte de Hal/Hallepoort Parvis de Saint-Gilles/Sint-Gillis Voorplein Horta Albert —— Churchill
Line 4	Gare du Nord/Noordstation Rogier De Brouckère Bourse/Beurs Anneessens Lemonnier Gare du Midi/Zuidstation Porte de Hal/Hallepoort Parvis de Saint-Gilles/Sint-Gillis Voorplein Horta Albert —— Stalle car park
Line 5	Erasme/Erasmus Eddy Merckx CERIA/COOVI La Roue/Het Rad Bizet Veeweyde/Veeweide Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido Aumale Jacques Brel Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Beekkant Étangs Noirs/Zwarte Vijvers Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne De Brouckère Gare Centrale/Centraal Station Parc/Park Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet Maelbeek/Maalbeek Schuman Merode Thieffry Pétillon Hankar Delta Beaulieu Demey Herrmann-Debroux
Line 6	Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn Heysel/Heizel Houba-Brugmann Stuyvenbergh Bockstael Pannenhuis Belgica Simonis Osseghem/Ossegem Beekkant Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Delacroix Clemenceau Gare du Midi/Zuidstation Porte de Hal/Hallepoort Hôtel des Monnaies/Munthof Louise/Louiza Porte de Namur/Naamsepoort Trône/Troon Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet Botanique/Kruidtuin Rogier Yser/IJzer Ribaucourt Elisabeth
Line 7	Heysel/Heizel —— Diamant Georges Henri Montgomery Boileau —— Vanderkindere
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v t e Railway stations in Brussels
Line 0:	Brussels-North Brussels-Congress Brussels-Central Brussels-Chapel Brussels-South
Line 25:	Brussels-North Schaerbeek
Line 26:	Schaerbeek Haren Bordet Evere Meiser Merode Delta Boondael Vivier d'Oie Saint-Job Moensberg
Line 28:	Brussels-South Brussels-West Simonis Bockstael Tour et Taxis Jette
Line 36:	Brussels-North Schaerbeek Haren-South
Line 50:	Brussels-North Bockstael Jette Berchem-Sainte-Agathe
Line 60:	Jette
Line 96:	Brussels-South Forest-South
Line 124:	Brussels-South Forest-East Uccle-Stalle Uccle-Calevoet
Line 161:	Brussels-North Brussels-Schuman Brussels-Luxembourg Germoir Etterbeek Watermael Boitsfort