First things first … don’t judge the city by its principal international train station, Gare du Midi. No, not the central station ... and entertain riders via its quirky social media platforms, ...

Brussels-Midi/Zuid to London, St Pancras with a scheduled ... It runs smoothly enough but the enclosed seated waiting area below the station's platforms is fairly crowded with too much space ...

Photograph: James ManningThe European Sleeper train pulls into the platform at Brussels Midi/Zuid Alternatively ... isolated farmhouses and old red-brick stations. Photograph: James ManningThe ...

BRUSSELS — Belgium acknowledged Thursday that its major rail gateway, the Brussels Midi Station, is now beset by drug abuse, poverty and violence that is a major stain on a nation preparing to ...