Belgian railway line 26

The Belgian railway line 26 connects Brussels to Halle, Belgium. It opened on July 19, 1926, between Schaarbeek and Watermael railway stations. The line was completed on January 3, 1930. It was built to bypass Brussels before the 1952 North–South connection existed.

Today all passenger trains using the line travel from Vilvoorde on a branch line called 26/1 and not from Schaarbeek, to various destinations south of Brussels. The line carries (parts of) several services of the GEN/RER: S4, S5, S7, S9. Some of these use the Schuman-Josaphat tunnel, which branches off just South of Meiser station.

The line serves the following stations:
 * Schaarbeek
 * Haren
 * Bordet
 * Evere
 * Schaarbeek-Josaphat
 * Meiser
 * Merode
 * Etterbeek-Cinquantenaire
 * Delta
 * Boondael
 * Vivier d’Oie / Diesdelle
 * Saint-Job
 * Moensberg
 * Beersel
 * Huizingen
 * Halle

Schaarbeek-Josaphat is no longer an operational station, it was a freight yard very near the present Evere railway station. Etterbeek-Cinquantenaire was also a freight station, now closed and (mostly) filled in.