National Railway Company of Belgium

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"SNCB" redirects here. For the gene, see
SNCB (gene)
.

National Railway Company of Belgium
HeadquartersAvenue de la Porte de Hal/Hallepoortlaan 40,
1060 Brussels
,
Belgium
RevenueIncrease €2,21 billion (2022)
Decrease €-438.30 million (2022)
Number of employees
30 000 (2023)
SubsidiariesBeNe Rail
Eurogare
Train World (BE)
SNCB YPTO
Websitebelgiantrain.be

The National Railway Company of Belgium (

railway company of Belgium. The company formally styles itself using the Dutch and French abbreviations NMBS/SNCB. The corporate logo designed in 1936 by Henry van de Velde
consists of the linguistically neutral letter B in a horizontal oval.

History

NMBS/SNCB is an autonomous government company, formed in 1926 as successor to the Belgian State Railways. From 1942 to 1944, amid Nazi Germany's occupation of Belgium, the company was paid 51 million Belgian francs by the Nazi Germany to send 28 trains carrying 25,843 Jews and Roma people to Auschwitz where only 1,195 survived.[1] The company also sent 16,000 political prisoners to concentration camps.[1]

In 2005, the company was split up into three parts:

NMBS/SNCB Logistics began operating as a separate business.[2]

Faced with rising losses, in June 2012, the Belgian transport minister announced further reform: NMBS/SNCB Holding would be split up, so NMBS/SNCB (the train operator) would be separate from Infrabel (the infrastructure owner). Unions oppose the reform.[3]

NMBS/SNCB-Holding was merged into NMBS/SNCB in 2014 in order to simplify the structure of the Belgian railways.[4]

NMBS/SNCB holds a Royal Warrant from the Court of Belgium.[citation needed]

Operations

Route map

In 2008 NMBS/SNCB carried 207 million passengers

electrified, mainly at 3,000 V DC and 351 km (218 mi) at 25 kV 50 Hz AC). In 2017, that number rose to 230 million passengers carried,[6]
and Belgium has a rail network of 3,602 km (2,238 mi) of main railway lines (or 6,399 km (3,976 mi) of mainline tracks).

The network currently includes four high speed lines suitable for 300 km/h (190 mph) traffic:

Rotterdam Centraal.[citation needed
]

National enforcement body

Sometimes passengers are not satisfied with the answer of railway companies or passengers do not receive any answer in one month,[7] in which case they can seek the assistance of the Federal Public Service Mobility and Transport.[8]

Gallery

See also

Notes

  1. ^ pronunciationⓘ

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    .
  2. ^ "Railway Gazette: SNCB Logistics gains independence". Retrieved 13 February 2011.
  3. ^ "Reforms proposed to cut SNCB losses – Railway Gazette". Railway Gazette International. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  4. ^ "History of the Belgian railways". Infrabel. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  5. ^ (in French) Jobs B-Rail. Jobs.b-rail.be.
  6. ^ (in French) 230 millions de voyageurs ont pris le train en 2017. SNCB Corporate.
  7. ^ "L_2007315EN.01001401.xml". eur-lex.europa.eu. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  8. ^ "National Enforcement Bodies in Europe for rail passengers" (PDF). European Commission. 28 July 2023.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to National Railway Company of Belgium.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Railway_Company_of_Belgium&oldid=1212354945"