Tour et Taxis | |||||||||||
Type: | Railway Station | ||||||||||
Symbol: | rail | ||||||||||
Symbol Location: | be | ||||||||||
Style: | Belgium Railway | ||||||||||
Address: | Laeken, Brussels-Capital Region | ||||||||||
Country: | Belgium | ||||||||||
Coordinates: | 50.873°N 4.3425°W | ||||||||||
Owned: | SNCB/NMBS | ||||||||||
Operator: | SNCB/NMBS | ||||||||||
Map Type: | Belgium#Europe | ||||||||||
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Tour et Taxis railway station (French: Gare de Tour et Taxis) or Thurn en Taxis railway station (Dutch; Flemish: Station Thurn en Taxis) is a railway station in Laeken, Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1883. The train station, located on the French: Rue Charles Demeer|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Charles Demeerstraat|italic=no, occupies the same site as Pannenhuis metro station on line 6 of the Brussels Metro. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).[1]
The station was opened on 1 May 1883 as Pannenhuis and later renamed to Brussels North-West. The station closed down on 3 June 1984, but reopened in 2015 as part of the Brussels Regional Express Network (RER/GEN) project under the name French: Tour et Taxis|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Thurn en Taxis|italic=no.