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 Beekkant metro station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Boulevard Edmond Machtens / Edmond Machtenslaan B-1080 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°51′13″N 4°19′22″E / 50.85361°N 4.32278°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | STIB/MIVB | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platforms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 8 May 1981 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Beekkant is a Brussels Metro station located in the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, in the western part of Brussels, Belgium. It opened on 8 May 1981 as part of the Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne–Beekkant extension of former line 1, and was for a year, until 6 October 1982, the western terminus of the metro. Then, following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by lines 1, 2, 5 and 6.
The metro station runs parallel to a railway used for freight trains, and from 2010 again, as a suburban railway line of the future Brussels Regional Express Network (RER/GEN).
