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Namur railway station

Namur railway station

Railway station in Namur, Belgium

For the Canadian metro station, see Namur station (Montreal Metro).

Namur railway station (French: Gare de Namur, Dutch: Station Namen)[lower-alpha 1] is the main railway station serving Namur, Belgium. The station is used by 18,600 people every day, making it the eighth-busiest station in Belgium and the busiest in Wallonia.[1] It is operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS).[2]

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History

Namur railway station in 1904
Sortie de la gare, Namur, 1938 photograph by Léonard Misonne

The first railway connection to Namur was inaugurated in 1843, when the Belgian State Railways (Chemins de fer de l'État Belge) opened an indirect line from Brussels to Charleroi (via Braine-le-Comte), continuing to Namur. In 1850, the Compagnie du Nord-Belge inaugurated line 125, connecting Namur to Liège. In 1856, a third company reached Namur (Grande compagnie du Luxembourg) with a direct link to Brussels with line 161. Two years later, the company opened line 162 Namur–Arlon–Luxembourg. In 1862, the Nord-Belge created line 154 Namur–Dinant. The current station building was inaugurated in 1864. In 1869, the Belgian State Railways put into service a sixth line (142) connecting Namur to Tienen; line 142 was completely closed in 1988.

At the end of the 1990s, the passenger building was restored and enlarged by a slab covering the tracks. The station was served by a daily Thalys high-speed rail service to Paris between 1998 and 31 March 2015.[3] With the commissioning of the Schuman-Josaphat tunnel in Brussels on 3 April 2016, Namur obtained a direct link with Brussels Airport.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:

  • Intercity services (IC-16) Brussels – Namur – Arlon – Luxembourg
  • Intercity services (IC-17) Brussels Airport – Brussels-Luxembourg – Namur – Dinant (weekdays)
  • Intercity services (IC-17) Brussels – Namur – Dinant (weekends)
  • Intercity services (IC-18) Brussels – Namur – Liege (weekdays)
  • Intercity services (IC-19) Lille – Tournai – Saint-Ghislain – Mons – Charleroi – Namur
  • Intercity services (IC-25) Mons – Charleroi – Namur – Huy – Liege (weekdays)
  • Intercity services (IC-25) Mouscron – Tournai – Saint-Ghislain – Mons – Charleroi – Namur – Huy – Liege – Liers (weekends)
  • Intercity services (K82) Maubeuge – Charleroi – Namur
  • Local services (L-01) Namur – Huy – Liège
  • Local services (L-08) Ottignies – Gembloux – Namur
  • Local services (L-11) Namur – Dinant – Bertrix – Libramont
  • Local services (L-14) Ottignies – Fleurus – Charleroi – Tamines – Namur – Jambes
  • Local services (L-16) Namur – Assesse (- Ciney)
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In addition to the above services, additional peak time trains are scheduled on weekdays (mornings and end of afternoons).

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. Officially Namur (French: Namur, Dutch: Namen)

Citations

  1. [1]
    lavenir.net (20 November 2013). "Bruxelles-Midi est la gare la plus fréquentée du pays, Namur 1re wallonne" (in French).
  2. [2]
    "NAMUR". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
  3. [3]
    Dries De Smet (31 March 2015). "Thalys doet laatste keer Oostende en Namen aan" [Thalys stops at Ostend and Namur for the last time]. De Standaard (in Dutch).
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