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The common section offers a high service frequency during daytime hours between Vanderkindere in the municipality of Uccle and the Brussels-North railway station. It shares 4 connections with metro lines and also links two major train stations with access to Thalys and Eurostar trains at Brussels-South railway station .
The Brussels tramway network is a tram system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It is the 16th largest tram system in the world by route length, in 2017 providing 149.1 million journeys (up 9.5% on 2016) over routes 140.6 km (87.4 mi) in length. [ 1 ]
The Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (French: Société des Transports Intercommunaux de Bruxelles [a] or STIB; Dutch: Maatschappij voor het Intercommunaal Vervoer te Brussel [b] or MIVB) is the local public transport operator in Brussels, Belgium. It is usually referred to in English by the double acronym STIB/MIVB, or by its French ...
Coast Tram (Belgium) (Kustlijn – i.e. Coast Line: Adinkerke – De Panne – Oostende – Knokke) Belgian coast: Steam 15 Jul 1885 1955 Electric 1 Oct 1908 Gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) Brugge (Bruges) Electric 1913 1951 Gauge: 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) Reintroduction discussed: see Coast Tram (Belgium) (Kustlijn). De Panne ...
The Brussels bus network now comprises 360 km (220 mi) of bus line by day and 112 km (70 mi) by night as of 2008, [6] and service the 19 municipalities of Brussels. Buses operated by the Walloon and Flemish public transport companies also run in Brussels in order to allow Walloon and Flemish people to go to the capital city.
The first motor buses were used in Brussels in 1907, with one route connecting the Brussels Stock Exchange to Ixelles' Municipal Hall. It was then stopped in 1913. It was then stopped in 1913. Other buses were set in service from 1920 on, and in 1926, Les Autobus Bruxellois , a bus company, was founded to operate the bus network. [ 2 ]
The premetro and tram route 7 in Brussels, Belgium, is a tram route operated by STIB/MIVB, which connects the Vanderkindere stop in the southern municipality of Uccle with the Heizel/Heysel stop in Laeken in the City of Brussels, where connecting services of tram route 51, Metro line 6, as well as bus routes 84 and 88 depart.
A further extension to Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation (Brussels-West Station) in April 2009 closed the "loop" of line 2 and led to a major restructuring of metro service. The Brussels Metro system is complemented by an S-train network serving the broader metropolitan region and opened in late 2015. [12]