Tram route 81 in
Brussels
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, Belgium, is a
tram
A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...
route in the south of the city which connects the Marius Renard stop in the municipality of
Anderlecht with the multimodal
Montgomery metro station
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 ...
in
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre () or Sint-Pieters-Woluwe () is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the eastern part of the region, it is bordered by Etterbeek, Auderghem and Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, as well as th ...
. The route also crosses the municipalities of
Saint-Gilles,
Ixelles
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, the
City of Brussels and
Etterbeek
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. It connects with the metro at
Saint-Guidon/Sint Guido,
Brussels-South (also railway),
Merode (also railway) and
Montgomery. The route also crosses the major tram routes
3 and
4 at Horta. A good deal of its length is in carriageway, while long sections at either end are in reservation. It has a short section in tunnel at the South Station.
The route was changed in the 2000s, with the section west from Brussels-South railway station going to Marius Renard rather than
Heysel/Heizel.
Until 2018 the route was served by
PCC
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...
trams - first 7700-series and later the longer 7900s. In that year the stops at Bailli/Baljuw were moved from the central reservation of the
Avenue Louise/Louizalaan into the
Rue du Bailli/Baljuwstraat, which has permitted the longer
Flexity low-floor tram
A low-floor tram is a tram that has no stairsteps between one or more entrances and part or all of the passenger cabin. The low-floor design improves the accessibility of the tram for the public, and also may provide larger windows and more airspac ...
s to be used when these are not needed elsewhere, that is normally at weekends. This progression to high-capacity vehicles accompanies an improvement in service frequency, with the daytime
headway now being 7
1/
2 minutes.
Route
Montgomery -
Merode - Place St Pierre/Sint-Pietersplein - Acacias/Acacia - La Chasse/De Jacht - Église Saint-Antoine/Sint-Antoonkerk -
Germoir/Mouterij - Levure/Gist -
Flagey - Dautzenberg -
Bailli/Baljuw - Trinité/Drievuldigheid - Janson - Moris - Lombardie/Lombardije - Barrière/Bareel - Guillaume Tell/Willem Tell - Bethléem/Bethlehem - Avenue du Roi/Koningslaan - Suède/Zweden -
Gare du Midi/Zuidstation - Bara - Conseil/Raad - Albert I - Curegham/Kuregem - Douvres/Dover - Résistance/Verzet -
Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido - Meir - Ysaye - Van Beethoven - Frans Hals - Parc Vivès/Vivèspark - Marius Renard.
Line 81 REAL-TIME & TIMETABLES -> Marius Renard
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See also
* List of Brussels tram routes
This is a list of Brussels tram routes :
* tram route 3: from Churchill to Esplanade
* tram route 4: from Stalle Parking to Brussels-North
* tram route 7: from Vanderkindere to Heysel/Heizel
* tram route 8: from Roodebeek to Louise/Louiz ...
References
External links
STIB/MIVB Website
{{Urban rail transport in Brussels
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Anderlecht
City of Brussels
Etterbeek
Ixelles
Saint-Gilles, Belgium
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre