Classic route
Intercity Dendermonde–Kortrijk
Dendermonde → Kortrijk · Belgium
- Distance
- 148 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 17 min
- Average speed
- 65 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- SNCB
- Train
- SNCB Intercity
- Countries
- Belgium
- In service since
- 1842
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Flanders corner to corner through the middle of Brussels, Dendermonde to Kortrijk and the French border beyond, on the Halle to Tournai line the young Belgian state opened in 1842.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 252455 — 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 4 m from it
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