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Location | Boulevard des Invalides / Invalidenlaan 1160 Auderghem, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 50°49′06″N 4°24′15″E / 50.81833°N 4.40417°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | STIB/MIVB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 20 September 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Delta is a railway and metro station in the municipality of Auderghem, in the south-eastern part of Brussels, Belgium. It is located near the intersection of the Boulevard du Triomphe/Triomflaan and the Boulevard des Invalides/Invalidenlaan and provides access to the adjacent Plaine campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and to the Etterbeek campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
The station was inaugurated on 20 September 1976, as part of the first heavy metro segment of the network, located on the branch from Merode to Beaulieu. Then, following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by the extended east–west line 5.