Beekkant metro station

	Beekkant metro station
General information
Location	Boulevard Edmond Machtens / Edmond Machtenslaan; 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
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	8 May 1981; 43 years ago
Services

Beekkant is a Brussels Metro station on lines 1, 2, 5 and 6. It is located under the Boulevard Edmond Machtens/Edmond Machtenslaan in the municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, in the western part of Brussels, Belgium. The station's name translates into English as "Brookside".

The metro station opened on 8 May 1981 as part of the Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijne–Beekkant extension of former east–west 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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^{[excessive citations]}

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).^[5]

Connections

The station offers the following connections:

The trains of the line 1 from the east continue their route towards Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation and Stockel/Stokkel.^[1]
The trains of the line 5 from the east continue their route towards Erasme/Erasmus and Herrmann-Debroux.^[2]
The trains of the line 2 from Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Simonis.^[3]
The trains of the line 6 from Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Roi Baudouin/Koning Boudewijn.^[4]
The trains of the lines 2 and 6 towards Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation continue their route towards Elisabeth.^[6]^[7]