Brussels-Central Railway Station - Metro Station

Metro Station


Gare Centrale
Centraal Station
Station statistics
Other information
Opened 1976
Owned by STIB/MIVB
Services
Preceding station Brussels Metro Following station
De Brouckère toward Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Line 1 Park toward Stockel/Stokkel
De Brouckère toward Erasme/Erasmus Line 5 Park toward Herrmann-Debroux

Five minutes' walk from the railway station through a pedestrian tunnel, there is a Brussels Metro station, also called Gare Centrale - Centraal Station. It is located under the "Marché au bois/Houtmarkt".

This was first opened as a premetro station on 17 December 1969 on the tram line between De Brouckère and Schuman. This premetro line was upgraded to full metro status on 20 September 1976 and today lies on the joint section of lines 1 and 5 that cross Brussels from east to west.

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