Kortrijk railway station

Kortrijk
Railway Station
Kortrijk railway station
General information
Location	Stationsplein, 8500 Kortrijk Belgium
Coordinates	50°49′27″N 3°15′50″E / 50.82417°N 3.26389°E / 50.82417; 3.26389
Owned by	NMBS/SNCB
Operated by	NMBS/SNCB
Platforms	8
Other information
Station code	KORT
History
Opened	22 September 1839; 185 years ago (1839-09-22)
Location Kortrijk Location within Belgium Show map of Belgium Kortrijk Kortrijk (Europe) Show map of Europe

Kortrijk railway station (Dutch: Station Kortrijk; French: Gare de Courtrai)^[a] is the main railway station in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium. The station was first inaugurated on 22 September 1839. With around 10,000 passengers per day, Kortrijk is the fifteenth-busiest railway station in Belgium, and the second in West Flanders.^[1] It is operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).^[2]

The following railway lines converge in this station: line 66 (Bruges–Kortrijk) and line 75 (Ghent–Mouscron). Railway lines 69 (Kortrijk–Ieper–Poperinge) and 89 (Denderleeuw–Kortrijk) begin just outside the station. Several national Intercity-trains, Interregio-trains and local trains also stop there, as do international trains like the Intercity-train to Lille-Flandres station in Lille, France.

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