Beekkant metro station

	Beekkant metro station
Location	Boulevard Edmond Machtens / Edmond Machtenslaan; B-1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°51′13″N 4°19′22″E / 50.85361°N 4.32278°ECoordinates: 50°51′13″N 4°19′22″E / 50.85361°N 4.32278°E
Owned by	STIB/MIVB
History
Opened	8 May 1981; 40 years ago
Services

Beekkant is a Brussels metro station located in the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, in the western part of Brussels (Belgium). It opened on 8 May 1981 as part of the Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne–Beekkant extension of former line 1, and was for a year, until 6 October 1982, the western terminus of the metro. Following the reorganisation of the Brussels metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by lines 1, 2, 5 and 6.

The metro station runs parallel to a railway used for freight trains, and from 2010 again, as a suburban railway line of the future Brussels Regional Express Network (RER/GEN).

Connections[]

The station offers the following connections:

The trains of the line 1 from the east continue their route towards Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation and Stockel/Stokkel.
The trains of the line 5 from the east continue their route towards Erasme/Erasmus and Herrmann-Debroux.
The trains of the line 2 from Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Simonis.
The trains of the line 6 from Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn.
The trains of the lines 2 and 6 towards Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Elisabeth/Elizabeth.

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External links[]

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Line 1	Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Beekkant Étangs Noirs/Zwarte Vijvers Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne De Brouckère Gare Centrale/Centraal Station Parc/Park Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet Maelbeek/Maalbeek Schuman Merode Montgomery Joséphine-Charlotte Gribaumont Tomberg Roodebeek Vandervelde Alma Kraainem/Crainhem Stockel/Stokkel
Line 2	Elisabeth Ribaucourt Yser/IJzer Rogier Botanique/Kruidtuin Madou Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet Trône/Troon Porte de Namur/Naamsepoort Louise/Louiza Hôtel des Monnaies/Munthof Porte de Hal/Hallepoort Gare du Midi/Zuidstation Clemenceau Delacroix Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Beekkant Osseghem/Ossegem Simonis
Line 3	Esplanade —— Rogier De Brouckère Bourse/Beurs Anneessens Lemonnier Gare du Midi/Zuidstation Porte de Hal/Hallepoort Parvis de Saint-Gilles/Sint-Gillis Voorplein Horta Albert —— Churchill
Line 4	Gare du Nord/Noordstation Rogier De Brouckère Bourse/Beurs Anneessens Lemonnier Gare du Midi/Zuidstation Porte de Hal/Hallepoort Parvis de Saint-Gilles/Sint-Gillis Voorplein Horta Albert —— Stalle car park
Line 5	Erasme/Erasmus Eddy Merckx CERIA/COOVI La Roue/Het Rad Bizet Veeweyde/Veeweide Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido Aumale Jacques Brel Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Beekkant Étangs Noirs/Zwarte Vijvers Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne De Brouckère Gare Centrale/Centraal Station Parc/Park Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet Maelbeek/Maalbeek Schuman Merode Thieffry Pétillon Hankar Delta Beaulieu Demey Herrmann-Debroux
Line 6	Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn Heysel/Heizel Houba-Brugmann Stuyvenbergh Bockstael Pannenhuis Belgica Simonis Osseghem/Ossegem Beekkant Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation Delacroix Clemenceau Gare du Midi/Zuidstation Porte de Hal/Hallepoort Hôtel des Monnaies/Munthof Louise/Louiza Porte de Namur/Naamsepoort Trône/Troon Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet Botanique/Kruidtuin Rogier Yser/IJzer Ribaucourt Elisabeth
Line 7	Heysel/Heizel —— Diamant Georges Henri Montgomery Boileau —— Vanderkindere
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