HSL 2
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The HSL 2 (Template:Langx, Template:Langx) is a Belgian high-speed rail line between Leuven and Ans (near Liège) and is Script error: No such module "convert". long, all of it on dedicated high-speed tracks, which began service on 15 December 2002. As part of the Belgian railway network, it is owned, technically operated and maintained by Infrabel.
Since the extension to the German border was completed (the HSL 3), the fastest journey time between Brussels South and Cologne Central Station is 1 hour and 47 minutes. HSL 2 is used by Thalys and ICE trains as well as fast internal Belgian Railways InterCity services.
Route
From Brussels South, trains travel northwards over Line 0 through Central and North stations. At Schaarbeek the route splits in two; northward bound trains continue over line 25N, line 25, Antwerp and HSL 4 to the Dutch border, eastward bound trains continue over line 36N, line 2 and line 36 to Liège and from there over line 37 and HSL 3 and again line 37 to the German border. Between Schaarbeek and Leuven there are four tracks; the two outer tracks, line 36, permit travel at Script error: No such module "convert".. The two central tracks, line 36N, were planned for Script error: No such module "convert". direct service and trainsets equipped with ETCS 1 are now allowed to travel at Script error: No such module "convert"..
At Leuven, trains pass through the existing station at Script error: No such module "convert".. Just outside, HSL 2 proper commences with a speed initially limited to Script error: No such module "convert".. After the Bierbeek tunnel (758 m),[1] maximum speed is increased to Script error: No such module "convert". alongside the E40 motorway. Over the last few kilometers, curbing away from the E40, speed is limited to Script error: No such module "convert".. Quitting HSL 2, trains run to Ans station at Script error: No such module "convert".. Between Ans and Liège-Guillemins station, passenger trains run on the modernised line 36 at a speed of Script error: No such module "convert". (downwards to Liège) or Script error: No such module "convert". (EMUs upwards to Ans).
Other
HSL 2 is used by Script error: No such module "convert". Thalys PBKA sets, ICE 3neo EMUs on international services, and Script error: No such module "convert". domestic InterCity services run by sets of Class 18 or Class 13 locomotives with I6, I10 or (mostly) I11 carriages. Trains with the new SNCB Class 18 locomotives appeared on the line.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[2] probably in 2010.[3] The DB Velaro D (BR407) was planned to use the route on its way to London, however these plans have since been shelved due to technical and financial problems, and it is unknown if the units will find use on the current ICE International services from Brussels to Germany.[4]
Maintenance bases for the line are situated at Leuven and Ans.
ETCS 1 has been installed on the HSL 2. It is operated from Block 12 in Brussels.
HSL 2 is standard gauge, double track, electrified at 25 kV, 50 Hz AC.
See also
References
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