Braine-l'Alleud railway station

Braine-l'Alleud
Railway Station
Braine-l'Alleud railway station
General information
Location	Place de la Gare 1, 1420 Braine l'Alleud Belgium
Coordinates	50°41′5″N 4°22′32.78″E
Elevation	115
Owned by	SNCB/NMBS
Operated by	SNCB/NMBS
Line(s)	115 (disused), 124
Platforms	4
Tracks	3
Construction
Parking	Yes (free and paying)
Bicycle facilities	Yes (free parking)
Other information
Station code	FBD
Website	Official website
History
Opened	10 April 1874; 150 years ago (1874-04-10)
Electrified	19 November 1949
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Braine-l'Alleud railway station (French: Gare de Braine-l'Alleud; Dutch: Station Eigenbrakel)[a] is a railway station in Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium, operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS). The station is located on railway line 124, from Brussels-South to Charleroi-Central.[1]

The station was open for service in 1874 by the Belgian State Railways. As a station of the SNCB/NMBS, it is served by the following types of trains: InterCity (IC), S Train (S) and Rush Hour trains (P).

Train services

The station is served by the following services:

• Intercity services (IC-05 (4500 - 4549) Charleroi - Nivelles - Brussels - Mechelen - Antwerp[2]
• Intercity services (IC-07 (2000 - 2049) Charleroi - Nivelles - Brussels - Mechelen - Antwerp
• Intercity services (IC-27 (4000 - 4049) Charleroi - Nivelles - Braine-l'Alleud - Brussels-Luxembourg - Brussels-Schuman - Bordet - Brussels Airport
• Brussels RER services (S1) Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels - Waterloo - Nivelles
• Brussels RER services (S1) Brussels-North - Brussels-Central Brussels-South - Waterloo - Nivelles (weekends)
• Brussels RER services (S9) (Landen -) Leuven - Brussels-Schuman - Brussels-Luxembourg - Braine-l'Alleud (weekdays only)

Preceding station	NMBS/SNCB			Following station
Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid towards Antwerpen-Centraal		IC 05		Nivelles towards Charleroi-Sud
		IC 07
Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid towards Brussels National Airport		IC 27
Waterloo towards Antwerpen-Centraal		S 1 weekdays		Lillios towards Nivelles
Waterloo towards Bruxelles-Nord / Brussel-Noord		S 1 weekends
Waterloo towards Leuven		S 9 weekdays		Terminus

The Brussels Regional Express Network (RER/GEN) services (S9) is running its full service since Monday 4 April 2016.[3] The delay was due to delayed works on the Schuman-Josaphat tunnel.[4] An updated map can be found on the SNCB/NMBS's website.[5]

Gallery

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  Frontal view
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  View of the platforms and tracks
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  Place name sign on a platform

See also

• List of railway stations in Belgium
• Rail transport in Belgium

References

Footnotes

1. Officially Braine-l'Alleud (French: Braine-l'Alleud; Dutch: Eigenbrake)

Citations

1. "BRAINE-L ALLEUD". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
2. "Map of train connections in French & Dutch". 17 February 2015. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
3. "Extension de l'offre ferroviaire suburbaine autour de Bruxelles grâce à l'ouverture du tunnel Schuman-Josaphat". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
4. "Adaptations du plan de transport suite au report de la mise en service du tunnel Schuman- Josaphat". www.belgianrail.be (in French). Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
5. "Updated Map of S-Train network" (PDF). SNCB/NMBS. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.