Schaerbeek Station

In 1864 this was just a small passenger station. A few years later, a project was launched to erect a new building in the Flemish Neorenaissance style with the aim of relieving congestion at the North and Allée Verte stations. A second ‘travellers’ building’ was added in 1888 and the surface area of the tracks was increased to transform the site into a real marshalling yard. The station remained an important hub for goods traffic until the 1980s, when the increase in road transport heralded the decline of the station, with passengers becoming increasingly rare. Closed for a long time, it was given a new lease of life in 2015 with the opening of ‘Train World’, an educational train museum that retraces the history of Belgium’s railways with, as its centrepiece, an 1844 locomotive, the oldest on the continent.

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