Classic route
IC Antwerpen–Hasselt
Antwerp → Hasselt · Belgium
- Distance
- 76 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 2 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- NMBS/SNCB
- Train
- NMBS/SNCB Desiro ML
- Countries
- Belgium
- In service since
- 1865
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
An hour east from the Scheldt to the Demer: out of Antwerp through Lier, then Heist-op-den-Berg and Diest across the Campine to Hasselt, on rails joined up in the 1860s.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from the operator’s own published service shape
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 4907
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