Station Ledegem

Nos. 129-131. Former station on the railway line Menen-Roeselare, constructed between 1887-1889, stop Ledegem-Dadizele; closed since 1975 and partly converted into homes and garages. Detached, brick station from the 19th century, facing the small square leading to Stationsstraat at the front, and at the back onto the former railway line, now a walking and riding path. Centrally located former waiting and ticket office hall of two stories under a gable roof (north // Stationsstraat, mechanical tiles), flanked on the left and right by former service buildings of one story under hipped roofs (mechanical tiles). Neoclassically tinted pilaster facades; imposts and architrave suggested in the wooden cornice of the main building. Horizontal facade articulation by means of water tables, and continuous drip sills and drip moldings of the arched wall openings. Renovation: altered wall openings on the ground floor facing the square. At the rear - platform - preserved woodwork including small leaded lights (fig. 36), (88). DAVIDSFOND LEDEGEM, Oud-Ledegem, Torhout, 1987. Collection of old postcards with brief commentary, unpaged.

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