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Railway station in Limburg, Belgium

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 / 50.78389; 5.47333

Owned by

NMBS/SNCB

Operated by

NMBS/SNCB

Line(s)

24 - 34

Platforms

Tracks

Other information

Station code

FTG

History

Opened

11 November 1863; 161 years ago (1863-11-11)

Services

Preceding station		Following station
Bilzentowards Gent-Sint-Pieters	IC 20	Terminus
Bilzentowards Hasselt	IC 13	Glonstowards Maastricht
Bilzentowards Antwerpen-Centraal	IC 09weekends	Glonstowards Liège-Guillemins

Location
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Tongeren railway station (Dutch: Station Tongeren; French: Gare de Tongres) 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).

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. Since then, train traffic has been regulated from Hasselt's modern, central traffic control post.

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

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