Ottignies railway station

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Italy

Ottignies railway station (French: Gare d'Ottignies; Dutch: Station Ottignies) is a railway station in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. The station was opened in 1855 by the Grande Compagnie de Luxembourg, and from 1884, had a station building designed by the architect Charles L

icot. This building was destroyed in 1996 and replaced by a new, modern and functional building inaugurated in 1999. In 2024, it was the third busiest station in Wallonia after Liège-Guillemins and Namur (serving a similar number of passengers), and the ninth-busiest in Belgium. Ottignies is an important station on the National Railway Company of Belgium (SNCB/NMBS) network. It is served by InterCity (IC), suburban (S), local (L), rush hour (P) and touristic (ICT) trains. The station is a keilbahnhof: it lies along railway line 161 (Brussels to Namur) and at the ends of railway lines 139 (Leuven to Ottignies) and 140 (Ottignies to Marcinelle). South of Ottignies, stroke line 161D goes to Louvain-la-Neuve.

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