Because you can’t ever have enough of a good thing.
We’ve left the normies behind, this is a safe space to enjoy trains. And trams, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Originally designed by Victor Horta and finished after his death by Maxime Brunfaut it’s a complex and busy station, with many little details to discover. If you search carefully you may even find the door (usually locked) to the royal waiting room.
The north/south rail link (spanning Brussels North/Central/South) is the busiest railway tunnel in the world. You can’t actually go visit it, or not without serious risk of getting into a fight with a train, anyway. Don’t try that, the train will win.
The Korei people sometimes offer behind-the-scenes tours of the Brussels-Central station. It’s well worth joining such a tour if you get the chance. Some of their other tours can be fun too, but those tend to not involve trains.
There are remnants of the old vicinal rail network in many places, but the only operational bits left are the Belgian Coast Tram (at one point the longest tram line in the world), the local trams in Ghent and the tourist tram at the caves of Han. The caves are a nice bonus to riding trams that used to run all over Belgium.
Known as the cathedral of rail, it now features trains on three levels and is worth making the trip to Antwerp all by itself. This used to be a terminus station, but since 2007 through traffic is possible.
An open and beautiful station designed by famed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
The second Calatrava designed railway station in Belgium. It finished very recently, in 2024.