Crainhem (

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) or Kraainem ( Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station in the municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert/Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, in the eastern part of Brussels, Belgium. Since 4 April 2009, the station has been served by line 1 (previously line 1B). It is located near the intersection of the /, the /, and the /. It has a large park-and-ride lot and is also the terminus for a number of inbound regional bus routes of De Lijn, as well as for the

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bus routes 30 and 31. The station was inaugurated in 1988 with the extension of the eastern branch of line 1B from

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to Stockel/Stokkel. Due to its location in a park-and-ride lot, it is one of the few Brussels Metro stations that has its own station building on the surface (most other stations having only an underground

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Naming

Originally, the station was just called ''Kraainem'', using only Dutch spelling, as it was technically named after the / (a road using Dutch spelling for both its Dutch and

names), not after the nearby Flemish municipality of Kraainem. However, French speakers in the Brussels community quickly protested against what they regarded as a violation of bilingual language facilities and insisted that the French form ''Crainhem'' be added to the name of the station. Thus the station is today usually held to be named after the municipality of Kraainem, even though it is not actually located on its territory, but partly under the Brussels-Woluwe campus of the

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(UCLouvain).

External links

{{Brussels Metro navbox Brussels metro stations Woluwe-Saint-Lambert