Antwerp-Luchtbal is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

in the north of the city of

Antwerp Antwerp (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of Antwerp Province, and the third-largest city in Belgium by area at , after ...

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. The station opened on 1 February 1932 on the

Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway The Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway (railway line 12 in the Belgian numbering plan) is an international railway line running from Antwerp in Belgium to Lage Zwaluwe in the Netherlands. The line was opened between 1854 and 1876. The opening of the ...

, known in Belgium as Line 12; it is also located on Line 27A, a freight line to the port of Antwerp; and on

HSL 4 The HSL 4 (, ) is a Belgian high-speed rail line part of the axis which connects Antwerp to the Dutch border. It is ; of it being dedicated high speed tracks. It was scheduled for completion by 2005 and opened in 2009. Together with the HS ...

. Since the opening of under Antwerp Central railway station it is also the endpoint of Line 25 from

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History

The station was originally located on the Manchesterlaan but this station was closed and a new station opened on the Groenendaallaan. This was in connection with the opening of the High Speed Line to the Netherlands ( Line 4). Train services continued via Antwerpen-Dam to the Central Station until December 2011, however due to ongoing infrastructure work only freight trains operate via this route and the stations are now closed to passenger traffic. (Antwerpen-Schijnpoort is still used, on the west side (Line 12) for cleaning and maintenance of passenger trains, and on the east side (Line 27A) as a shunting yard for goods). Passenger trains now continue from here straight to the Central Station, operating via the tunnel.

Train services

The station is served by the following services: *Intercity services (IC-05) Essen - Antwerp - Brussels - Charleroi (weekdays) *S services (S32) Roosendaal - Essen - Antwerp - Puurs (all days) *S services (S32) Essen - Antwerp - Puurs (weekdays) *S services (S35) Antwerp - Noorderkempen (weekdays rush hour)

Tram services

Tram line 6 serves the station, this is operated by

De Lijn Vlaamse Vervoersmaatschappij De Lijn (, ), more commonly known as De Lijn, is a state-owned enterprise run by the Flemish government in Belgium to provide public transport with about 2240 buses and 399 trams. De Lijn was founded in 1991 after the ...

Bus services

Bus services 600, 601, 602, 610, 620, 621, 640, 641, 642 and 650 serve the station, these are operated by

External links

Belgian Railways website
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