🇧🇪 Operator
Train routes operated by SNCB
4 routes · classic 3 · scenic 1
SNCB runs 4 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 335 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Intercity at 123 km; the fastest is the Intercity, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1836.
The company itself dates to 1926, filed on Wikidata as a national railway. What this page says about the company comes from SNCB's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q524255 ↗
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- 4
- Total length
- 335 km
- Countries
- Belgium
- Fastest
- Intercity · 160 km/h
- Longest
- Intercity · 123 km
- Oldest line here
- 1836
- Company founded
- 1926
- Type
- national railway
Classic (3)
- Intercity
One of Belgium’s original 1838 trunk lines, running dead-flat across Flanders through Ghent and Bruges to the North Sea ferry port of Ostend.
- Intercity
Terminates beneath Santiago Calatrava’s soaring white vault of steel and glass at Liège-Guillemins, one of Europe’s boldest modern stations.
Wikipedia (NL) ↗ - Intercity
Traces the route of continental Europe’s first passenger railway of 1835 and ends under the vast domed railway cathedral of Antwerpen-Centraal.
Wikipedia (NL) ↗
Scenic (1)
- Line 166 (Athus–Meuse)
Up the Meuse and over the Ardennes from Dinant to Bertrix — passenger trains on the Athus–Meuse freight road between Antwerp and Basel.
Wikipedia (FR) ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does SNCB run?
4 of the routes in this atlas are SNCB services, covering 335 km across 1 country (Belgium). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest SNCB train?
The Intercity, Brussels to Ostend, at up to 160 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 1 h 12 min over 123 km.
Does SNCB run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 4 SNCB routes listed here are daytime services.
When was SNCB founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1926, and files it as a national railway. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1836 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries SNCB runs in
- 🇧🇪 Train routes in Belgium 17 routes