Central station (Brussels)
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The Central station in Brussels, Belgium is a Brussels underground and NMBS/SNCB station in the City of Brussels. It was inaugurated in 1952 as part of the North-South Junction project which aimed to connect the main railway lines in Brussels. On December 17, 1969, the premetro station was opened and it was then part of the tramway section between De Brouckère and Schuman. This premetro station converted to a metro station on September 20, 1976, and it is now part of the common section of the lines 1A and 1B, that crosses Brussels from East to West.
The train station hall is connected to the metro station hall by a long pedestrian tunnel. The train station is located within the quadrilateral designed by the "Boulevard de l'Impératrice", "Rue de l'Infante Isabelle", "Kantersteen" and "Rue de la Putterie" and it has several entries all around this quadrilateral. Whereas the platforms lie underground, the hall of the train station is on street level. The metro station is all underground, located under the "Marché au bois".
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| Brussels metro, Line 1A | ||
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Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn | Heysel/Heizel | Houba-Brugmann | Stuyvenbergh | Bockstael | Pannenhuis | Belgica | Simonis | Osseghem/Ossegem | Beekkant | Étangs Noirs/Zwarte Vijvers | Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen | Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne | De Brouckère | Gare Centrale/Centraal Station | Parc/Park | Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet | Maelbeek/Maalbeek | Schuman | Mérode | Thieffry | Pétillon | Hankar | Delta | Beaulieu | Demey | Herrmann-Debroux edit |
| Brussels metro, Line 1B | ||
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Erasme/Erasmus | Eddy Merckx | CERIA/COOVI | La Roue/Het Rad | Bizet | Veeweyde/Veeweide | Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido | Aumale | Jacques Brel | Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation | Beekkant | Étangs Noirs/Zwarte Vijvers | Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen | Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne | De Brouckère | Gare Centrale/Centraal Station | Parc/Park | Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet | Maelbeek/Maalbeek | Schuman | Mérode | Montgomery | Joséphine-Charlotte | Gribaumont | Tomberg | Roodebeek | Vandervelde | Alma | Crainhem/Kraainem | Stockel/Stokkel edit |
