TRAIN TO POPS

[petestarling]

Has anyone gone by train from Brussels to Pops? I have a friend doing that way. Is it difficult?

Pete

[sassenach]

I don't think there is a direct train anymore. Change at Ghent or Kortrijk. Fairly easy, but don't try it on a Friday afternoon when the students are coming home for the weekend.

[petestarling]

Sassenach

 

Thanks.

 

Pete

[thetrenchrat22]

A couple of years ago, i stayed in Charleroi and got the train from there to Brussels and changed at Brussels to a train which direct to pop which stops at Ieper 

[sassenach]

That's no longer possible; you haveto change in Gent or Kortrijk.

Edited 25 February , 2017 by sassenach

[The Scorer]

Using tomorrow (27th February) as a random sample, the DB web site (it's German Railways, but it provides all the European times as far as I know)  provides these examples:

 

Depart Brussels Centraal               10.44      11.44

Arrive Gent St Pieters                    11.20      12.20

Depart Gent St Pieters                   11.36      12.36

Arrive Poperinghe                          12.53       13.53

 

Sample return trains are:

 

Depart  Poperinghe                        15.04      15.04     17.11

Arrive Kortrijk                                      -              -         18.54              

Depart Kortrijk                                     -             -          18.57

Arrive Gent St Pieters                     16.22      17.23      19.23     

Depart Gent St Pieters                    16.40      17.40      19.40

Arrive Brussels Centraal                 17.15      18.15       20.15

 

Here's a link to the site (don't let the "translate" bit worry you!): http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bahn.de%2F

 

I hope that this is helpful.