Tour et Taxis railway station

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]

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; 141 years ago (1883)
Closed1984; 40 years ago (1984)
Rebuilt2015; 9 years ago (2015)
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Location
Tour et Taxis is located in Belgium
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Location within Belgium
Tour et Taxis is located in Europe
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Tour et Taxis (Europe)

History

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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

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Train services

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  • Brussels RER services (S10) Dendermonde - Brussels - Denderleeuw - Aalst
Preceding station NMBS/SNCB Following station
Jette

toward Dendermonde

S10 Simonis

toward Aalst

See also

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References

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ Officially Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis (French: Tour et Taxis; Dutch: Thurn en Taxis)

Citations

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  1. ^ "THURN EN TAXIS". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
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