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Delta station

Railway and metro station in Brussels, Belgium

Field	Value
name	[[File:(STIB-MIVB) Panneau DELTA.png	frameless	300x300px]]
style	Brussels Metro
image	STIB MIVB Metro Delta.jpg
image_caption	Delta metro station
address	Boulevard des Invalides / Invalidenlaan
1160 Auderghem, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
coordinates
opened
owned	STIB/MIVB
services	{{Adjacent stations
system1	Brussels Metro	line1=5	left1=Hankar	right1=Beaulieu
system2	BE
line2	S 4	left2=Merode	right2=Etterbeek	type2=reverse weekdays
line3	S 7	left3=Merode	right3=Boondael	type3=weekdays

1160 Auderghem, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Delta is a railway and metro station in the municipality of Auderghem, in the south-eastern part of Brussels, Belgium. It is located near the intersection of the Boulevard du Triomphe/Triomflaan and the Boulevard des Invalides/Invalidenlaan and provides access to the adjacent La Plaine/Het Plein campus of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and to the Etterbeek campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

The station was inaugurated on 20 September 1976, as part of the first heavy metro segment of the network, located on the branch from Merode to Beaulieu. Then, following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by the extended east–west line 5.

Metro station

Delta is notable for being the only station in the Brussels Metro network to be named after a feature of itself rather than after a street name, neighbourhood, or other adjacent location: The name derives from the triangular shape of the maintenance complex as seen from the air, which is reminiscent of the Greek capital letter Delta (Δ).

The station is the site of the primary maintenance facility for all heavy metro rolling stock. Because of this, Delta originates the Brussels Metro's earliest services in the morning and is also the last station where metro trains terminate at night. The maintenance complex also services a large fleet of buses.

Railway station

The main railway station, located within the same complex, encompasses two platforms and is served by the suburban services the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB)'s line 26 linking Vilvoorde with Halle via Etterbeek. There is a direct link between the metro and railway tracks within the station, enabling transportation of metro rolling stock by way of the Belgian rail network.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):

Brussels RER services (S4) Vilvoorde - Merode - Etterbeek - Brussels-Luxembourg - Denderleeuw - Aalst (weekdays, peak hours only)
Brussels RER services (S7) Mechelen - Merode - Halle (weekdays)

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