Parc (Charleroi Metro)
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Platforms | Central | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | No | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 30 August 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Parc is a Charleroi Metro station, located in downtown Charleroi, in fare zone 1. It is an underground station featuring a central platform, with street access at both ends.
Interior decoration, themed around the Lucky Luke Belgian comics character, features a fresco of the comics main characters on one side, and a short comics strip depicting a train attack by the Daltons on the other side. There's also a Lucky Luke statue outside of the station, near the park's eastern entrance.
Until February 26, 2012, Parc used to be a dead-end station (terminus of former lines 55 and 88), where trams would arrive from Janson on the western side of the central platform, then park in a short tunnel section south of the station, before coming back in the station for departure on the eastern side of the platform. The parking tracks are now part of the Parc to Tirou section.
The station name (French for Park) comes from the adjacent municipal park.
Nearby points of interest
- Queen Astrid municipal park (French: Parc Reine Astrid).
- Charleroi courthouse.
- Schools : Collège du Sacré-Coeur and Athénée Royal Vauban.
Transfers
TEC Charleroi bus lines 1, 3, 4, 8, 10, 15, 18, 25, 35, 37, 52, 71, 74, 86, 154, 158, 710, 722, E, City-Bus.
Photos
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Metro Charleroi - Parc station outside.JPG
South entrance of the station, with the park on the left.
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Metro Charleroi - Parc station - tailtrack.JPG
The short tunnel section south of the station where trams park before departure.