Tour et Taxis railway station

Tour et Taxis
Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis railway station
General information
Location	Laeken, Brussels-Capital Region Belgium
Coordinates	50.8730°N 4.3425°E / 50.8730; 4.3425
System	Railway Station
Owner	SNCB/NMBS
Operator	SNCB/NMBS
History
Opened	1883 (1883)
Closed	1984 (1984)
Rebuilt	2015 (2015)
Location Tour et Taxis Location within Belgium Tour et Taxis Location within Europe

Tour et Taxis railway station (French: Gare de Tour et Taxis) or Thurn en Taxis railway station (Dutch: Station Thurn en Taxis) is a railway station in Laeken, in the north-west of the City of 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).

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

• Metro:  6  - Pannenhuis Station

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

• List of railway stations in Belgium
• Rail transport in Belgium
• Transport in Brussels
• History of Brussels
• Tour & Taxis

References

External links

• Media related to Tour et Taxis station at Wikimedia Commons