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The Rubens was an express train that linked Gare du Nord in Paris, France, with Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid in Brussels, Belgium. The train was named after Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens.

History

Trans Europ Express

The Rubens was introduced together with the TEE Memling in the TEE-network to cope with the raising number of passengers between Paris and Brussels. Both services were the first in the morning, the Rubens departed from Brussels at 6:42 in the morning, while the Memling departed from the Gare du Nord in Paris at 6:45. The return services were scheduled as the fifth of the six daily TEEs in both directions, departing around 6:45 p.m.

EuroCity

In 1987 the Rubens was, like the other Paris-Brussels TEE services, integrated into the new EuroCity network. On 23 May 1993 the EuroCity services between Paris and Brussels were classified as TEE again. After the opening of the LGV-Nord on 23 January 1995 the Rubens was withdrawn.

References

1. La Légende des TEE p. 366.
2. Das grosse TEE Buch p. 114
3. La Légende des TEE p. 363.
4. La Légende des TEE p. 367.
5. La Légende des TEE p. 406.
6. La Légende des TEE p. 407.

Works cited

• Hajt, Jörg (2001). Das grosse TEE Buch (in German). Bonn/Königswinter: Heel Verlag. ISBN 3-89365-948-X.
• Mertens, Maurice; Malaspina, Jean-Pierre (2007). La Légende des Trans Europ Express (in French). Vannes: LR Presse. ISBN 978-29-036514-5-9.

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International	Albert Schweitzer Arbalète Bavaria Blauer Enzian Brabant Catalan Talgo Cisalpin Diamant Edelweiss Erasmus Étendard Étoile du Nord Goethe Gottardo Helvetia Île de France Iris Lemano Ligure Mediolanum Memling Merkur Molière Mont Cenis L'Oiseau Bleu Paris–Ruhr Parsifal Prinz Eugen Rembrandt Rheingold Rhein–Main Roland Rubens Saphir Ticino Van Beethoven Watteau
Domestic	France Aquitaine Le Capitole Étendard Faidherbe Gayant Jules Verne Kléber Le Lyonnais Le Mistral Le Rhodanien Stanislas Watteau Germany Bacchus Diamant Friedrich Schiller Gambrinus Goethe Heinrich Heine Rheinpfeil Roland Italy Adriatico Ambrosiano Aurora Cycnus Colosseum Settebello Vesuvio

• EuroCity
• International named passenger trains
• Named passenger trains of France
• Named passenger trains of Belgium
• Railway services introduced in 1974
• Trans Europ Express
• Railway services discontinued in 1995
• Peter Paul Rubens