Liège–Maastricht railway

Liège–Maastricht railway
Liège-Maastricht railway connection
Overview
Status	Operational
Locale	The Netherlands and Belgium
Termini	Liège-Guillemins railway station Maastricht railway station
Service
Operator(s)	National Railway Company of Belgium
History
Opened	1861
Technical
Line length	29 km (18 mi)
Number of tracks	double track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	Liège–Gronsveld: 3 kV DC Gronsveld–Maastricht: 1,5 kV DC
Route map km Belgian railway line 36 to Brussels 0.0 Liège-Guillemins Belgian railway line 125 to Namur River Meuse to Seraing 1.5 0.0 Belgian railway line 37 to Aachen River Ourthe 4.9 Bressoux 17.7 Visé to Tongeren–Aachen freight line 18.2 Belgium Netherlands border 19.8 Eijsden 27.2 Maastricht Randwyck 28.8 Maastricht to Heerlen Maastricht–Venlo railway to Roermond

The Liège–Maastricht railway (line 40 in the Belgian numbering plan) is a railway line running from Liège in Belgium to Maastricht in the Netherlands. The line was opened in 1861.

The line runs from the Dutch province of Limburg to the Belgian province of Liège. For a very small part, it runs through the Belgian province of Limburg (near the village of Moelingen).

Stations

The main interchange stations on the Liège–Maastricht railway are:

• Liège: to Brussels, Aachen, Namur, Luxembourg and Hasselt
• Maastricht: to Heerlen, Roermond, Eindhoven, Amsterdam

Local stations are in Bressoux and Visé, Belgium, and in Eijsden and Randwyck on the Dutch side.

Electrification

The line has overhead power at 1,500 V DC in the Netherlands and 3,000 V DC in Belgium; the break of voltage occurs just to the North of the frontier, on Dutch territory.

See also

• Line 40 (Infrabel) (in French)