List of railway stations in Belgium
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This is a list of the busiest train stations in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

  sorted by the average amount of passengers per day on a week day. The province
Provinces of Belgium
Belgium is divided into three regions, two of them are subdivided into five provinces each.The division into provinces is fixed by Article 5 of the Belgian Constitution...

 is also listed, unless the station lies within the Brussels Capital Region and therefore does not belong to any province.

The figures include only passenger traffic on national rail services. Numbers for passengers on international trains like Eurostar
Eurostar
Eurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Paris and Brussels. All its trains traverse the Channel Tunnel between England and France, owned and operated separately by Eurotunnel....

, Thalys
Thalys
Thalys is an international high-speed train operator originally built around the high-speed line between Paris and Brussels. This track is shared with Eurostar trains that go from Paris or Brussels to London via Lille and the Channel Tunnel and with French domestic TGV trains. Thalys reaches...

 and other high-speed rail
High-speed rail
High-speed rail is a type of passenger rail transport that operates significantly faster than the normal speed of rail traffic. Specific definitions by the European Union include for upgraded track and or faster for new track, whilst in the United States, the U.S...

 services are excluded.
Rank Station Province Passengers
1 Brussels-Central Brussels Capital Region 74,640
2 Brussels-South Brussels Capital Region 49,194
3 Gent-St-Pieters East Flanders
East Flanders
East Flanders is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and in Belgium on the provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant , of Hainaut and of West Flanders...

44,670
4 Brussels-North
Brussels-North railway station
Bruxelles-Nord / Brussel-Noord is one of the three major railway stations in Brussels; the other two are Brussels Central and Brussels South...

Brussels Capital Region 40,713
5 Leuven Flemish Brabant
Flemish Brabant
Flemish Brabant is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Hainaut and East Flanders. Flemish Brabant also completely surrounds the Brussels-Capital Region. Its capital is Leuven...

26,659
6 Antwerpen-Centraal Antwerp
Antwerp (province)
Antwerp is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and East Flanders. Its capital is Antwerp which comprises the Port of Antwerp...

25,225
7 Mechelen railway station Antwerp
Antwerp (province)
Antwerp is the northernmost province both of the Flemish Region, also called Flanders, and of Belgium. It borders on the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and East Flanders. Its capital is Antwerp which comprises the Port of Antwerp...

20,991
8 Ottignies railway station Walloon Brabant
Walloon Brabant
Walloon Brabant is a province of Wallonia in Belgium. It borders on the province of Flemish Brabant and the provinces of Liège, Namur and Hainaut . Its capital is Wavre...

20,825
9 Namur railway station Namur
Namur (province)
Namur is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France. Its capital is the city of Namur...

17,632
10 Brugge West Flanders 17,472
11 Liège-Guillemins
Liège-Guillemins railway station
Liège-Guillemins train station is the main station of the city of Liège, the third biggest city in Belgium. It is one of the most important hubs in the country and is one of the 3 Belgian stations on the high-speed rail network...

Liège
Liège (province)
Liège is the easternmost province of Belgium and belongs to the Walloon Region. It is an area of French and German ethnicity. It borders on the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and in Belgium the provinces of Luxembourg, Namur, Walloon Brabant , and those of Flemish Brabant and Limburg . Its...

13,463
12 Antwerpen-Berchem railway station Antwerp 12,729
13 Denderleeuw railway station East Flanders 10,991
14 Mons railway station Hainaut 10,387
15 Kortrijk
Kortrijk main railway station
Kortrijk railway station is the main railway station in the Belgian city of Kortrijk and one of the busiest railway stations in Belgium. Its NMBS/SNCB internal code is LK. The station was first inaugurated on 22 September 1839....

West Flanders 10,032
16 Charleroi-Sud railway station
Charleroi-South railway station
The Charleroi-South pre-metro station, simply known as South on network maps, was opened in 1976. Along with Vilette, Sud was the first station to enter service on the Charleroi pre-metro...

Hainaut 9,736
17 Brussels-Schuman railway station Brussels Capital Region 8,077
18 Sint-Niklaas railway station East Flanders 7,879
19 Aalst railway station East Flanders 7,763
20 Oostende railway station West Flanders 7,392
21 Tournai
Tournai Railway Station
The railway station of Tournai, in Belgium, is situated on line 94. The first train arrived there on 24 January 1842.A first neo-classical stone building dating from the 1840s was later dismantled and replaced to serve as the railway station of the...

Hainaut 7,076
22 Hasselt railway station Limburg
Limburg (Belgium)
Limburg is the easternmost province of modern Flanders, which is one of the three main political and cultural sub-divisions of modern Belgium. It is located west of the river Meuse . It borders on the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Limburg and the Belgian provinces of Liège, Flemish Brabant...

6,995
23 Dendermonde railway station East Flanders 6,866
24 Brussels-Luxembourg railway station Brussels Capital Region 6,825
25 Gembloux railway station Namur 6,603
26 Zottegem railway station East Flanders 6,145
27 Louvain-La-Neuve-Université railway station Walloon Brabant 5,703
28 Brussels-National-Airport railway station Flemish Brabant 5,663
29 Etterbeek railway station
Etterbeek railway station
Etterbeek railway station is a railway station in Brussels, Belgium operated by SNCB. The station is named after the municipality of Etterbeek though it is located in the neighbouring municipality of Ixelles, at the Couronne/Kroon crossroad on the greater ring...

Brussels Capital Region 5,565
30 Braine-l'Alleud railway station Walloon Brabant 5,291
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