Liège–Maastricht railway explained

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Liège–Maastricht railway
Status:Operational
Locale:The Netherlands and Belgium
Start:Liège-Guillemins railway station
End:Maastricht railway station
Open:1861
Operator:National Railway Company of Belgium
Linelength:29km (18miles)
Map State:collapsed

The Liège–Maastricht railway (line 40 in the Belgian numbering plan) is a railway line running from Liège in Belgium to Maastricht in the Netherlands. The line was opened in 1861.

The line runs from the Dutch province of Limburg to the Belgian province of Liège. For a very small part, it runs through the Belgian province of Limburg (near the village of Moelingen).

Stations

The main interchange stations on the Liège–Maastricht railway are:

to Brussels, Aachen, Namur, Luxembourg and Hasselt

to Heerlen, Roermond, Eindhoven, Amsterdam

Local stations are in Bressoux and Visé, Belgium, and in Eijsden and Randwyck on the Dutch side.

Electrification

The line has overhead power at 1,500 V DC in the Netherlands and 3,000 V DC in Belgium; the break of voltage occurs just to the North of the frontier, on Dutch territory.

See also