Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station
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Gent-Sint-Pieters railway station
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| Opening | 1912 |
| Telegraphic code | FGSP |
| Railway line(s) | 50 - 50A - 58 - 59 - 75 |
| Platforms | 12 |
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Gent-Sint-Pieters is the main railway station in Ghent and – depending upon the measure used – the second or third busiest railway station in Belgium. Its NMBS/SNCB internal code is FGSP.
[edit] History
The origins of the railway station is a small station on the line Ghent-Ostend in 1881.[1] At that time the main railway station of Ghent was the South railway station built in 1837. At the occasion of the 1913 world exhibition in Ghent, a new Sint-Pieters railway station was built. It was designed by architect Louis Cloquet and finished in 1912 just before the World Exhibition. It was classified as a monument in 1995 and is undergoing extensive reconstruction and expansion as of 2006.
