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The Brussels Metro is served by 217 carriages of M1-M5 series, manufactured by La Brugeoise et Nivelles, ACEC, Bombardier Transportation, Alstom and CAF and delivered between 1976 and 1999, as well as 21 six-car trainsets of the new M6 series (also known as "Boa"), manufactured by CAF and delivered between 2007 and 2012. A new train type known ...
Brussels Metro carriage at Erasme/Erasmus metro station. 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.
Development of the Brussels Metro up to 2006. The Brussels Metro was first opened in 1976 and has been expanding since, to comprise as of 2009 a set of four metro lines serving a total of 60 metro stations, most of which are underground. Line 1 connects Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation to the east of the city. Line 2 runs in a loop around the city ...
Gare Centrale or Centraal Station is a Brussels Metro station on lines 1 and 5.It is located five minutes' walk from Brussels-Central railway station, under the Marché au Bois / Houtmarkt, in the City of Brussels, Belgium, and can be accessed through a pedestrian tunnel.
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]
Merode station opened in 1976 and was served by the first heavy metro service ever in Brussels (earlier underground services elsewhere were operated by trams). The station is located at the eastern end of the common branch of lines 1 and 5.
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 ]