Tongeren
Railway Station
Tongeren railway station
General information
LocationTongeren, Limburg
Belgium
Coordinates50°47′2″N 5°28′24″E / 50.78389°N 5.47333°E / 50.78389; 5.47333
Owned byNMBS/SNCB
Operated byNMBS/SNCB
Line(s)24 - 34
Platforms3
Tracks5
Other information
Station codeFTG
History
Opened11 November 1863 (1863-11-11)
Services
Preceding station NMBS/SNCB Following station
Bilzen
towards Gent-Sint-Pieters
 IC 20 Terminus
Bilzen
towards Hasselt
 IC 13 Glons
towards Maastricht
Bilzen
towards Antwerpen-Centraal
 IC 09
weekends
 Glons
towards Liège-Guillemins
Location
Tongeren is located in Belgium
Tongeren
Tongeren
Location in Belgium
Tongeren is located in Europe
Tongeren
Tongeren
Location in Europe

Tongeren railway station (Dutch: Station Tongeren, French: Gare de Tongres)[lower-alpha 1] is a railway station in Tongeren, Limburg, Belgium. The station is on the Hasselt-Liège railway and marks the beginning of the Tongeren-Aachen railway through Visé to Germany. The station was also the final stop of the now demolished Drieslinter-Tongeren railway. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).[1]

Signal box

Tongeren signal box used to be located in the station building. It was permanently staffed until the 1990s, since when the train traffic in and around Tongeren has been regulated from Bilzen. The Tongeren signal box remained in place, but was only in use in the event of faults or maintenance works. On 24 June 2016, it was finally closed at the same time as the Bilzen signal box.[2] Since then, train traffic has been regulated from Hasselt's modern, central traffic control post.[2]

The ticket office of the station is only open during the week, between 5:45 a.m. and 1 p.m.[1]

Services

Week

Train type Connection Timetable
IC 20 Tongeren - Hasselt - Aarschot - Brussel-South - Aalst - Gent-Sint-Pieters 1x per hour
IC 13 Hasselt - Diepenbeek - Tongeren - Liège-Guillemins - Maastricht 1x per hour

Weekend

Train type Connection Timetable
IC 09 Antwerpen-Centraal - Aarschot - Hasselt - Diepenbeek - Tongeren - Liège-Guillemins 1x per hour

See also

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Officially Tongeren (Dutch: Tongeren, French: Tongres)

Citations

  1. 1 2 "TONGRES". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Treinverkeer dit weekend onderbroken op deze Limburgse spoorlijnen". www.tvl.be (in Flemish). Retrieved 12 October 2020.
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