Sart-Culpart (Charleroi Metro)

Sart-Culpart
Coordinates 50°25′45″N 4°29′43″E / 50.42917°N 4.49528°E / 50.42917; 4.49528Coordinates: 50°25′45″N 4°29′43″E / 50.42917°N 4.49528°E / 50.42917; 4.49528
Platforms 2 lateral
Tracks 2
Construction
Depth Surface
Platform levels 1
Parking No
Other information
Fare zone 2
History
Opened 27 February 2012
Services
Preceding station   Charleroi Metro   Following station
toward Sud
Line M4
Terminus

Sart-Culpart is a Charleroi Metro station located in Gilly, Belgium (part of the Charleroi municipality), opened on February 27th 2012 as part of the Soleilmont extension of the Gilly branch of the Charleroi Pre-metro. The station is built at ground level and features a two lateral platforms.

The station is located in TEC Charleroi fare zone 2.

The original Sart-Culpart station structure was built in the 1980s as an underground station slightly to the East of the current location, but has never been put into service since then.[1] The unfinished station has been vandalized through the years and it has been decided to rebuild it in the more urbanized and secure current location, as part of the 2009-2011 extension of the Gilly branch of the network.[2]

Nearby points of interest

The station is located in a residential area of Gilly (the Sart-Culpart neighbourhood).

Transfers

There are no direct train or bus transfers at the station.

Gilly-Sart-Culpart railway station

Gilly-Sart-Culpart railway station was a former station (1879–1953) on the now dismantled Belgian railway line 119 linking Châtelet to Luttre. It was located 700-metre (2,300 ft) northwest of the current pre-metro station.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Le chantier carolo du siècle, page 9 : La renaissance de l'antenne gillicienne, La nouvelle gazette, 15 September 2009.
  2. ↑ Station de Sart Culpart, TEC Charleroi, 2008.


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