| Box Width: | 300px |
| Belgian railway line 26 | |
| Status: | Operational |
| Locale: | Belgium |
| Start: | Schaarbeek railway station |
| End: | Halle railway station |
| Open: | 1926-1930 |
| Operator: | National Railway Company of Belgium |
| Linelength: | 28km (17miles) |
| Map State: | collapsed |
The Belgian railway line 26 connects Brussels to Halle, Belgium. It opened on July 19, 1926, between Schaarbeek and Watermael railway stations. The line was completed on January 3, 1930.[1] It was built to bypass Brussels before the 1952 North–South connection existed.
Today all passenger trains using the line travel from Vilvoorde on a branch line called 26/1 and not from Schaarbeek, to various destinations south of Brussels. The line carries (parts of) several services of the GEN/RER: S4, S5, S7, S9. Some of these use the Schuman-Josaphat tunnel, which branches off just South of Meiser station.
The line serves the following stations:
Schaarbeek-Josaphat is no longer an operational station, it was a freight yard very near the present Evere railway station.Etterbeek-Cinquantenaire was also a freight station, now closed and (mostly) filled in.