Mérode station

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mérode is a railway and metro station in Brussels, Belgium. The metro station is located in the municipality of Etterbeek (near the border between Etterbeek, the City of Brussels and Schaerbeek), under the "Porte de Tervueren/Tervuursepoort," which is the start of the "Tervurenlaan/Avenue de Tervueren", a famous avenue in Brussels. The underground train station is located under the "Place Prince Jean de Mérode/Prins Jean de Mérodeplein," after which it is named.

The metro station opened in 1976 and was served by the first "heavy" metro service ever in Brussels (earlier underground services elsewhere were operated by trams). The station is located at the end of the common branch of the lines 1A and 1B. One metro train out of two coming from Schuman continues to the South-East of the city through Thieffry toward Herrmann-Debroux metro station in the municipality of Auderghem; this branch is currently part of line 1A. The other branch continues to the North-East through Montgomery toward Stokkel/Stockel in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.

Several places of interest are located around this station: the famous Cauchie house (house of the architect Paul Cauchie), the Parc du Cinquantenaire, the "Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan" (one of the oldest avenues in Brussels) and the Royal Military School.

Mérode station is unusual in having its eastbound and westbound tracks at different levels, in order to avoid conflicting movements at the same level. As a result, each platform faces a blank wall across the track, which has been decorated with tiling to improve the atmosphere of the station.

Brussels metro, Line 1A

Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn | Heysel/Heizel | Houba-Brugmann | Stuyvenbergh | Bockstael | Pannenhuis | Belgica | Simonis | Osseghem/Ossegem | Beekkant | Étangs Noirs/Zwarte Vijvers | Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen | Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne | De Brouckère | Gare Centrale/Centraal Station | Parc/Park | Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet | Maelbeek/Maalbeek | Schuman | Mérode | Thieffry | Pétillon | Hankar | Delta | Beaulieu | Demey | Herrmann-Debroux   edit

Brussels metro, Line 1B

Erasme/Erasmus | Eddy Merckx | CERIA/COOVI | La Roue/Het Rad | Bizet | Veeweyde/Veeweide | Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido | Aumale | Jacques Brel | Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation | Beekkant | Étangs Noirs/Zwarte Vijvers | Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen | Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne | De Brouckère | Gare Centrale/Centraal Station | Parc/Park | Arts-Loi/Kunst-Wet | Maelbeek/Maalbeek | Schuman | Mérode | Montgomery | Joséphine-Charlotte | Gribaumont | Tomberg | Roodebeek | Vandervelde | Alma | Crainhem/Kraainem | Stockel/Stokkel   edit