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Mechelen railway station (Dutch: Station Mechelen, French: Gare de Malines), officially Mechelen, is a railway station in Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium. The station opened on 5 May 1835 on railway lines 25, 27 and 53. Train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).

Mechelen
Railway Station
General information
Location	Mechelen, Antwerp Belgium
Coordinates	51°01′03″N 4°29′01″E
Owned by	NMBS/SNCB
Operated by	NMBS/SNCB
Line(s)	25, 27, 53
Platforms	10
Tracks	10
History
Opened	5 May 1835

History

On 5 May 1835, the first public train journey on the European mainland arrived near the station.[1] The train line stopped just south of the station, as there was no bridge over the canal until 1836. Lines were built in all directions from the station: North to Antwerp, south to Brussels and France, east to Leuven, Liège and Verviers and west to Dendermonde, Ghent, Bruges and Ostend.

In 2013, major plans to modernise and rebuild the station started. This project is called Mechelen in Beweging.[2] A 3-level underground car park has since been constructed. The current station buildings and tracks will be demolished and replaced. The building work is expected to take more than a decade as the work will need to be carried out platform by platform to retain enough capacity for the station.

Features

The station has twelve platforms; the six on the eastern side are a few metres higher than the others. In 2012, a new high-speed railway (line 25N) opened between Mechelen and Schaerbeek, in northern Brussels. This line also links Mechelen with Brussels Airport. Platforms 11 and 12 were added to the station in December 2020 to accommodate the additional trains from this line.[3]

To the east of the station is the large Mechelen Train Works, where trains receive maintenance and heavy works, such as refurbishment.

Train services

The following services currently serve the station:

• Intercity services (IC-05) Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels - Nivelles - Charleroi
• Intercity services (IC-08) Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels Airport - Leuven - Hasselt
• Intercity services (IC-11) Binche - Braine-le-Comte - Halle - Brussels - Mechelen - Turnhout (weekdays)
• Intercity services (IC-21) Ghent - Dendermonde - Mechelen - Leuven
• Intercity services (IC-22) Essen - Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels (weekdays)
• Intercity services (IC-22) Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels - Halle - Braine-le-Comte - Binche (weekends)
• Intercity services (IC-31) Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels (weekdays)
• Intercity services (IC-31) Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels - Nivelles - Charleroi (weekends)
• Intercity services (IC-35) Amsterdam - The Hague - Rotterdam - Roosendaal - Antwerp - Brussels Airport - Brussels
• Local services (L-02) Zeebrugge - Bruges – Ghent – Dendermonde – Mechelen (weekdays)
• Local services (L-20) Sint-Niklaas – Mechelen – Leuven (weekdays)
• Local services (L-20) Mechelen - Leuven (weekends)
• Local services (L-27) Sint-Niklaas - Mechelen (weekends)
• Local services (L-28) Ghent - Dendermonde - Mechelen (weekends)
• Brussels RER services (S1) Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels - Waterloo - Nivelles (weekdays)
• Brussels RER services (S1) Antwerp - Mechelen - Brussels (weekends)
• Brussels RER services (S5) Mechelen - Brussels-Luxembourg - Etterbeek - Halle - Enghien (- Geraardsbergen)
• Brussels RER services (S7) Mechelen - Merode - Halle

Preceding station	NS International			Following station
Antwerpen-Berchem towards Amsterdam Centraal		Intercity Direct 9200		Brussels National Airport towards Brussels-South
Preceding station	NMBS/SNCB			Following station
Antwerpen-Berchem towards Antwerpen-Centraal		IC 05		Bruxelles-Nord / Brussel-Noord towards Charleroi-Sud
		IC 08		Brussels National Airport towards Hasselt
Vilvoorde towards Binche		IC 11		Lier towards Turnhout
Londerzeel towards Gent-Sint-Pieters		IC 21		Muizen towards Leuven
Mechelen-Nekkerspoel towards Essen		IC 22 weekdays, except holidays		Vilvoorde towards Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid
Mechelen-Nekkerspoel towards Antwerpen-Centraal		IC 22 weekends		Vilvoorde towards Binche
		IC 31 weekdays, except holidays		Vilvoorde towards Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid
		IC 31 weekends		Vilvoorde towards Charleroi-Sud
Kapelle-op-den-Bos towards Zeebrugge-Dorp		L 02 weekdays		Terminus
Willebroek towards Sint-Niklaas		L 20 weekdays, except holidays		Muizen towards Leuven
Terminus		L 20 weekends
Willebroek towards Sint-Niklaas		L 27 weekends		Terminus
Kapelle-op-den-Bos towards Gent-Sint-Pieters		L 28 weekends
Mechelen-Nekkerspoel towards Antwerpen-Centraal		S 1 weekdays		Weerde towards Nivelles
		S 1 weekends		Weerde towards Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid
Terminus		S 5		Weerde towards Enghien
		S 7		Muizen towards Halle

See also

• List of railway stations in Belgium

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Wolmar, Christian (2010). Blood, Iron & Gold: How the Railways transformed the World. London: Grove Atlantic. ISBN 978-1-84887-171-7.

External links

• Mechelen railway station at Belgian Railways website

На других языках

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[de] Bahnhof Mechelen

Der Bahnhof Mechelen ist ein Bahnhof der NMBS/SNCB in der belgischen Stadt Mechelen. Er ist einer der meistfrequentierten Bahnhöfe des Landes. An den zehn Bahnsteiggleisen halten InterCity-, InterRegio- und Regionalzüge. Die Züge verbinden Mechelen unter anderem mit Kortrijk, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerpen, Charleroi, Gent, Löwen und Brüssel.

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- [en] Mechelen railway station

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