Classic route
Intercity
Brussels → Ostend · Belgium
Intercity in pictures
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- Distance
- 123 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 12 min
- Average speed
- 103 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCB
- Train
- M6 · HLE 27
- Countries
- Belgium
- In service since
- 1838
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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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 76951 — 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 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 1995 (Zug-Nr. 1995)
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