“The train has always held a special place at the airport,” Feist explained. “In 1958, following the Brussels World Fair, Brussels Airport became the first airport in the world to have its own train station.”
Currently, on weekdays, 330 trains stop at the airport station each day, providing direct rail links to eighty stations. However, high-speed trains had not stopped there for over ten years—until now.
“The arrival of this high-speed train is an important step in the further development of Brussels Airport as an intermodal hub,” Feist added. With the new ICE connection, “travellers from western Germany have convenient access to Brussels Airport, and arriving at Brussels Airport provides direct access to Cologne and the rest of western Germany.”
“Our ambition is to sustainably establish this connection, and we hope it will be the starting point for even more high-speed train links in the future,” Feist concluded.
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