Montgomery metro station explained

Style:Brussels Metro
Coordinates:50.8378°N 4.4069°W
Structure:Underground
Platform:2 (metro)
2 (premetro)
Tracks:2 (metro)
2 (premetro)
Opened: (premetro)
(metro)
Owned:STIB/MIVB

Montgomery is an underground station on the Brussels Metro, the first station on the eastern branch of line 1 (formerly line 1B), in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. The station also serves a number of tram lines and buses: Brussels tram routes 7 and 25 pass through, and 39 and 44 terminate there, while tram route 81 and a number of buses stop at surface level.

History

The metro station opened on 30 January 1975 and is named after the roundabout above (Square Maréchal Montgomery/Maarschalk Montgomeryplein), which in turn was named after Field Marshal Montgomery. It is located in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (Sint-Pieters-Woluwe).

Description

The trams' entrance is from the French: Rue du Duc|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Hertogstraat|italic=no; they exit to the Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan. The walls of the station are decorated with a large fresco by Jean-Michel Folon titled Magic City.[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Folon, Jean-Michel. Fresque murale: Magic City. Jean-Michel-Folon.eu. 16 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20151117021427/http://www.jean-michel-folon.eu/friendsclub//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=64&Itemid=30. November 17, 2015.