Ottignies railway station
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Ottignies
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Ottignies railway station
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| Location | Ottignies, Walloon Brabant, Belgium |
| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Owned by | National Railway Company of Belgium |
| Line(s) | 139, 140, 161 |
| Platforms | 10 |
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| Opened | 14 June 1855 |
Ottignies is a railway station in the town of Ottignies, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The station opened on 14 June 1855 on the Lines 139, 140 and 161.
The station is an important railway junction, and an example of a wigstation. It lies along railway line 161 and at the ends of railway line 139 (Leuven) and railway line 140 (to Marcinelle). South of Ottignies stroke line 161D goes to Louvain-la-Neuve-Université.
On 30 March 2000 a new station building was inaugurated. It replaced the old station building that was already there since 1884.
In 2007 this was the busiest station in Wallonia after Namur and Liège-Guillemins. In the Belgian arrangement comes in eighth place.
Train services
The station is served by the following services:
- EuroCity services (IC-34) Brussels - Namur - Luxembourg - Strasbourg - Mulhouse - Basel
- Intercity services (IC-16) Brussels - Namur - Arlon - Luxembourg
- Intercity services (IC-17) Brussels Airport - Brussels-Luxembourg - Namur - Dinant (weekdays)
- Intercity services (IC-17) Brussels - Namur - Dinant (weekends)
- Intercity services (IC-18) Brussels - Namur - Liege (weekdays)
- Local services (L-08) Ottignies - Gembloux - Namur
- Local services (L-14) Ottignies - Fleurus - Charleroi - Tamines - Namur - Jambes
- Brussels RER services (S8) Brussels - Etterbeek - Ottignies - Louvain-le-Neuve
- Brussels RER services (S20) Leuven - Wavre - Ottignies
- Brussels RER services (S81) Schaarbeek - Brussels-Luxembourg - Etterbeek - Ottignies (weekdays, peak hours only)
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toward Basel SBB
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| IC 16 |
toward Luxembourg
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weekdays
toward Brussels National Airport
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IC 17 |
toward Dinant
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weekends
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| IC 18
weekdays
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toward Liège-Palais
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| Terminus | L 08 |
toward Namur
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| Terminus | L 08 |
toward Namur
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| S 8 |
Terminus
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toward Leuven
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S 20 | Terminus | ||
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toward Schaarbeek
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S 81
weekdays
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Terminus |
See also
References
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
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