Intercity Antwerp–Ghent

Flanders’ two great cities in an hour, straight through the Waasland at Sint-Niklaas and Lokeren, on a line that reached Ghent in 1847 but Antwerp’s own stations only in 1970, through the Kennedy tunnel under the Scheldt.

Stations

1. 0 kmAntwerpen-Centraal +6
2. 2 kmAntwerpen-Berchem +4
3. 6 kmAntwerpen-Zuid
4. 16 kmBeveren
5. 25 kmSint-Niklaas
6. 38 kmLokeren
7. 58 kmGent-Dampoort
8. 65 kmGent-Sint-Pieters +2

The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the IC 1827 on 12 October 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3948085: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 1827

Questions and answers

How long is the Intercity?

The Intercity runs 64 km from Antwerp to Ghent.

How long does the Intercity take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 56 min for the 64 km. That is an average of 69 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 140 km/h.

Who runs the Intercity?

SNCB.

How old is the Intercity?

The line has been in service since 1970. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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