Kortrijk railway station
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Kortrijk railway station (Dutch: Station Kortrijk, French: Gare de Courtrai)[lower-alpha 1] is the main railway station in Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium. The station was first inaugurated on 22 September 1839. With around 10,000 passengers per day, Kortrijk is the fifteenth-busiest railway station in Belgium, and the second in West Flanders.[1] It is operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).[2]
Railway Station | |
General information | |
Location | Stationsplein, 8500 Kortrijk Belgium |
Coordinates | 50°49′27″N 3°15′50″E |
Owned by | NMBS/SNCB |
Operated by | NMBS/SNCB |
Platforms | 8 |
Other information | |
Station code | KORT |
History | |
Opened | 22 September 1839; 184 years ago (1839-09-22) |
Location | |
The following railway lines converge in this station: line 66 (Bruges–Kortrijk) and line 75 (Ghent–Mouscron). Railway lines 69 (Kortrijk–Ieper–Poperinge) and 89 (Denderleeuw–Kortrijk) begin just outside the station. Several national Intercity-trains, Interregio-trains and local trains also stop there, as do international trains like the Intercity-train to Lille-Flandres station in Lille, France.