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Brussels-North  | |||||
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| Railway Station | |||||
 Main hall of Brussels-North railway station | |||||
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| Location | Rue du Progrès / Vooruitgangstraat 76 1030 Schaerbeek, Brussels-Capital Region Belgium | ||||
| Coordinates | 50°51′36″N 4°21′42″E / 50.86000°N 4.36167°E | ||||
| Owned by | SNCB/NMBS | ||||
| Operated by | SNCB/NMBS | ||||
| Line(s) | 0, 25, 27, 36, 50, 161 | ||||
| Platforms | 12 | ||||
| Connections |  Brussels Metro: 3 4
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| Construction | |||||
| Architect | Jacques and Paul Saintenoy | ||||
| Architectural style | Modernism | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | FBN | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 4 October 1952 | ||||
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Brussels-North railway station (French: Gare de Bruxelles-Nord; Dutch: Station Brussel-Noord)[a] is one of the three major railway stations in Brussels, Belgium; the other two are Brussels-Central and Brussels-South. Every regular domestic and international train (except Eurostar) passing there has a planned stop. The station has 200,000 passengers per week, mainly commuters, making it one of the busiest in Belgium.
Brussels-North is the end point of the premetro (underground tram) North–South Axis (on lines 4 and 10), and an important node of the Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (STIB/MIVB), as well as of bus lines of the Flemish transport company De Lijn. More than 30 regional bus lines depart from there, as do international Eurolines coach services.
The station is located in the Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek, in the middle of the Northern Quarter business district (also called Little Manhattan), with several corporation headquarters such as Belgacom Towers, Rogier Tower and others, government offices, as well as Flemish ministries. Right next to the station is the Rue d'Aerschot/Aarschotstraat, an area of prostitution "behind windows".[1]
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