Montgomery metro station
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Platforms | 2 (metro) 2 (premetro) | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 (metro) 2 (premetro) | ||||||||||
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Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
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Opened | 30 January 1975 20 September 1976 (metro) | (premetro)||||||||||
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Montgomery is an underground station on the Brussels Metro, the first station on the eastern branch of line 1 (formerly line 1B), in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. The station also serves a number of tram lines and buses: Brussels tram routes 7 and 25 pass through, and 39 and 44 terminate there, while tram route 81 and a number of buses stop at surface level.[citation needed]
History
The metro station opened on 30 January 1975 and is named after the roundabout above (
municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
(Sint-Pieters-Woluwe).
Description
The trams' entrance is from the Rue du Duc/Hertogstraat; they exit to the Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan. The walls of the station are decorated with a large fresco by Jean-Michel Folon titled Magic City.[1]
References
- ^ Folon, Jean-Michel. "Fresque murale: Magic City". Jean-Michel-Folon.eu. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2017.