page_title: Antwerpen-Centraal railway station
section_title: Expansion for high-speed trains
hierarchical_section_title: Antwerpen-Centraal railway station / Expansion for high-speed trains
caption_attribution_description: English: Antwerp Central Station levels
context_page_description: Antwerpen-Centraal is the main train station in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The station is operated by the NMBS.
context_section_description: In 1998 large-scale reconstruction work began to convert the station from a terminus to a through station. A tunnel was excavated between Berchem station in the south of the city and Antwerpen-Dam station in the north, passing under Central station, with platforms on two underground levels.  This allows Thalys, HSL 4 and HSL-Zuid high-speed trains to travel through Antwerp Central without the need to turn around (the previous layout obliged Amsterdam-Brussels trains to call only at Berchem or reverse at Central).
  The major elements of the construction project were completed in 2007, and the first through trains ran on 25 March 2007.
  This complete project has cost approximately €1.6 billion.
  The station was awarded a Grand Prix at the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards in 2011.
caption: The different levels
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