Liège–Maastricht railway

Railway line between Netherlands and Belgium

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| 3 kV DC

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Belgian railway line 36 to Brussels

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| Liège-Guillemins
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Belgian railway line 125 to Namur

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River Meuse

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to Seraing

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Belgian railway line 37 to Aachen

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River Ourthe

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17.7

| Visé
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to Tongeren–Aachen freight line

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18.2

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Netherlands
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19.8

| Eijsden
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| Maastricht Randwyck
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28.8

| Maastricht
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to Heerlen

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Maastricht–Venlo railway to Roermond

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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

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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

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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

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* Line 40 (Infrabel) (in French)

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