Tour et Taxis
Railway Station
Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis railway station
General information
LocationLaeken, Brussels-Capital Region
Belgium
Coordinates50°52′23″N 4°20′33″E / 50.8730°N 4.3425°E / 50.8730; 4.3425
Owned bySNCB/NMBS
Operated bySNCB/NMBS
History
Opened1883 (1883)
Location
Tour et Taxis is located in Belgium
Tour et Taxis
Tour et Taxis
Location within Belgium
Tour et Taxis is located in Europe
Tour et Taxis
Tour et Taxis
Tour et Taxis (Europe)

Tour et Taxis railway station (French: Gare de Tour et Taxis) or Thurn en Taxis railway station (Dutch: Station Thurn en Taxis)[lower-alpha 1] 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

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

  • Brussels RER services (S10) Dendermonde - Brussels - Denderleeuw - Aalst
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.
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