Tongeren railway station

Location
	Tongeren Location in Belgium Tongeren Location in Europe

Tongeren
Tongeren
Railway Station
	Tongeren railway station
General information
Location	Tongeren, Limburg; Belgium
Coordinates	50°47′2″N 5°28′24″E / 50.78389°N 5.47333°E
Owned by	NMBS/SNCB
Operated by	NMBS/SNCB
Line(s)	24 - 34
Platforms	3
Tracks	5
Other information
Station code	FTG
History
Opened	11 November 1863; 161 years ago
Services
Location
Location
	Tongeren Location in Belgium Tongeren Location in Europe

Tongeren railway station (Dutch: Station Tongeren; French: Gare de Tongres)^[a] is a railway station in Tongeren, Limburg, Belgium. The station is on the Hasselt-Liège railway and marks the beginning of the Tongeren-Aachen railway through Visé to Germany. The station was also the final stop of the now demolished Drieslinter-Tongeren railway. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).^[1]

Signal box

Tongeren signal box used to be located in the station building. It was permanently staffed until the 1990s, since when the train traffic in and around Tongeren has been regulated from Bilzen. The Tongeren signal box remained in place, but was only in use in the event of faults or maintenance works. On 24 June 2016, it was finally closed at the same time as the Bilzen signal box.^[2] Since then, train traffic has been regulated from Hasselt's modern, central traffic control post.^[2]

The ticket office of the station is only open during the week, between 5:45 a.m. and 1 p.m.^[1]

Services

Week

Train type	Connection	Timetable
IC 20	Tongeren - Hasselt - Aarschot - Brussel-South - Aalst - Gent-Sint-Pieters	1x per hour
IC 13	Hasselt - Diepenbeek - Tongeren - Liège-Guillemins - Maastricht	1x per hour

Weekend

Train type	Connection	Timetable
IC 09	Antwerpen-Centraal - Aarschot - Hasselt - Diepenbeek - Tongeren - Liège-Guillemins	1x per hour

Gallery

Tongeren railway station from a bird's eye view
The freight station building

References

Footnotes

^ Officially Tongeren (Dutch: Tongeren, French: Tongres)

Citations

^ ^a ^b "TONGRES". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Treinverkeer dit weekend onderbroken op deze Limburgse spoorlijnen". www.tvl.be (in Flemish). Retrieved 12 October 2020.

[fn1-1] Officially Tongeren (Dutch: Tongeren, French: Tongres)

[:1-2] "TONGRES". www.belgianrail.be. Retrieved 12 October 2020.

[:0-3] "Treinverkeer dit weekend onderbroken op deze Limburgse spoorlijnen". www.tvl.be (in Flemish). Retrieved 12 October 2020.

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