Gare du Midi metro station
Gare du Midi/Zuidstation metro station | |||||||||||||||
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Owned by | STIB/MIVB | ||||||||||||||
Connections | Brussels Metro: 3 4 | ||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | 2 October 1988; 35 years ago (1988-10-02) | ||||||||||||||
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Gare du Midi (French) or Zuidstation (Dutch) is a rapid transit station in Brussels, Belgium, consisting of both a metro station (on the southern segment of lines 2 and 6) and a premetro (underground tram) station (serving lines 3 and 4 on the North–South Axis between Brussels-North railway station and Albert premetro station).
The metro station opened on 2 October 1988 as (at that time) the terminus of metro line 2 from Simonis. Line 2 has since been extended beyond Brussels-South to Clemenceau in 1993, Delacroix in 2006, and Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation in 2009. Since 1993, the station also accommodates premetro services at separate platforms, with cross-platform interchange between metro and premetro in both directions.[citation needed]
The metro station is located under Brussels-South railway station, the busiest station in Belgium, and the only Brussels stop for international high-speed rail services: Eurostar ICE and TGV.
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The South Tower, the tallest building in Belgium,[1] stands in front of the station's main exit (the crossroad of the Avenue Fonsny/Fonsnylaan and the Rue Couverte/Bedektestraat) and houses the Belgian Federal Pensions Service (FPS).[2]
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References
External links
Media related to Brussels Midi station (metro) at Wikimedia Commons
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