Beekkant metro station

Beekkant metro station
General information
Location	Boulevard Edmond Machtens / Edmond Machtenslaan B-1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°51′13″N 4°19′22″E
Owned by	STIB/MIVB
History
Opened	8 May 1981 (1981-05-08)
Services
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Beekkant is a Brussels metro station located in the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, in the western part of Brussels (Belgium). It opened on 8 May 1981 as part of the Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne–Beekkant extension of former line 1, and was for a year, until 6 October 1982, the western terminus of the metro. Following the reorganisation of the Brussels metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by lines 1, 2, 5 and 6.

The metro station runs parallel to a railway used for freight trains, and from 2010 again, as a suburban railway line of the future Brussels Regional Express Network (RER/GEN).

Connections

The station offers the following connections:

• The trains of the line 1 from the east continue their route towards Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation and Stockel/Stokkel.
• The trains of the line 5 from the east continue their route towards Erasme/Erasmus and Herrmann-Debroux.
• The trains of the line 2 from Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Simonis.
• The trains of the line 6 from Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn.
• The trains of the lines 2 and 6 towards Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Elisabeth/Elizabeth.

External links

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