Classic route
Intercity
Brussels → Liège · Belgium
Intercity in pictures
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- Distance
- 95 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h
- Average speed
- 95 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCB
- Train
- M6 double-deck
- Countries
- Belgium
- In service since
- 1842
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Terminates beneath Santiago Calatrava’s soaring white vault of steel and glass at Liège-Guillemins, one of Europe’s boldest modern stations.
How this line was checked
- The 99 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 57688 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of R 1978 (Zug-Nr. 1978)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in NL) ↗
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