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16 March (from 10 pm) - 17 March: strike in Belgium

Updated 13/3, 1pm

Due to a strike in Belgium, the rail service on the Belgian rail network will be limited from Sunday 16 March (10 pm) to Monday 17 March 2025 included.

An alternative train service will be put in place depending on the available staff. More details about this alternative service will be available from Saturday 15 March on www.belgiantrain.be.

For international trains (such as Eurostar, TGV INOUI, EuroCity, Eurocity Direct, ICE, OUIGO etc...), no consequences have been announced so far except for:

  • Nightjet : the train from Vienna and Berlin of Sunday 16/3 will terminate in Cologne. The train to Vienna and Berlin of Monday 17/3 will depart from Cologne. Between Cologne and Brussels/Liège, passengers can use ICE trains.

We advise to check this page regularly for further updates.

Please take alternative service into account if you are travelling on our cross-border local trains to/from Lille, Maubeuge, Luxembourg, Roosendaal, Maastricht or Aachen or if you need to take a local connection in Belgium before or after your international journey.

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15-16 March: limited EuroCity and Eurocity Direct service due to works in The Netherlands

Due to engineering works on the dutch rail network, the EuroCity (Brussel-Rotterdam) and Eurocity Direct (Brussel-Amsterdam) trains will only operate on a limited section of their journey on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 March 2025.

Saturday 15/03

  • EuroCity will only operate between Brussels and Roosendaal (instead of Rotterdam)
  • Eurocity Direct will only operate between Brussels and Breda (instead of Amsterdam)

Sunday 16/03

  • EuroCity will only operate between Brussels and Breda (instead of Rotterdam)
  • Eurocity Direct will only operate between Brussels and Rotterdam (instead of Amsterdam)

17-23 March: Eurocity Direct will terminate in Rotterdam

Due to planned engineering works, the Eurocity Direct (Brussels-Amsterdam) will only operate between Bruxelles-Midi/Brussel-Zuid and Rotterdam Central from Monday 17 March to Sunday 23 March 2025 included.

Passengers to Schiphol-Airport and Amsterdam can change trains in Breda or Rotterdam and use NS trains (Dutch Railways) to their final destination with their current ticket.

In the opposite direction, passengers from Amsterdam and Schiphol-Airport can use other trains to Rotterdam or Breda, where they can board on the Intercity train to Brussels.

Please check the adapted schedules before you depart.

29 - 30 March: changed schedule for OUIGO Brussels-Paris - no intermediate stop in Mons

Due to planned engineering works between Halle and Braine-le-Comte, the OUIGO service between Brussels and Paris will be diverted via Nivelles and Erquelinnes on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 March 2025, resulting in longer journey times and no intermediate stop in Mons that weekend.

Please check the adapted schedules before you depart.

Paris-Milan high speed trains back on track from 31 March

From Monday 31 March 2025, high-speed trains will directly connect France and Italy again:

  • TGV INOUI (Paris Gare de Lyon - Milano Porta Garibaldi) : 3 trains a day in each direction, for travel from 31/03/25;
  • Frecciarossa (Paris Gare de Lyon - Milano Centrale) : 2 trains a day in each direction, for travel from 01/04/25.

These routes had been interrupted in August 2023 after a landslide in the French Alps between St-Jean de Maurienne and Modane. After major repair works, they will be back in service in spring 2025.

European Sleeper: modified stops in Berlin from 27 June 2025

Starting 27 June 2025, European Sleeper will include stops at Berlin Zoo and Berlin Ost, but no longer in Berlin Hauptbahnhof on its route to Prague.

On the return journey from Prague to Belgium, European Sleeper will keep stopping at Berlin Ost and Berlin Hauptbahnhof.

 

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