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	Gare du Midi/Zuidstation metro station
General information
Location	Avenue Fonsny / Fonsnylaan 47B; 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium
Coordinates	50°50′6.58″N 4°20′6.8″E / 50.8351611°N 4.335222°E
Owned by	STIB/MIVB
Connections	Brussels Metro: 3 4
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	2 October 1988; 36 years ago
Services

Brussels Premetro
North-South Axis

Legend

4 25 55

Brussels-North

(Gare du Nord/Noordstation)

4

Rogier 2 6

De Brouckère 1 5

Bourse/Beurs

Anneessens-Fontainas

51 82

Lemonnier

81

Brussels-South

(Gare du Midi/Zuidstation)

2 6

81 82

Porte de Hal/Hallepoort 2 6

Parvis de Saint-Gilles/

Sint-Gillis Voorplein

Horta 81 97

Albert

51│3 4

Gare du Midi (French) or Zuidstation (Dutch) is a rapid transit station in Brussels, Belgium, consisting of both a metro station (on the southern segment of lines 2 and 6) and a premetro (underground tram) station (serving lines 4 and 10 on the North–South Axis between Brussels-North railway station and Albert premetro station).

The metro station opened on 2 October 1988 as the southern terminus of line 2 from Simonis. Line 2 has since been extended beyond Gare du Midi/Zuidstation to Clemenceau in 1993, Delacroix in 2006, and Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation in 2009. Since 3 December 1993, the station has also accommodated North–South Axis premetro services at separate platforms, with cross-platform interchange between metro and premetro in both directions.^{[citation needed]} Then, following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by lines 2, 3, 4 and 6.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Line 3 was disbanded in 2024 and replaced by the new line 10.^[5]

The metro station is located under Brussels-South railway station, the busiest station in Belgium, and the only Brussels stop for international high-speed rail services Eurostar (including the former Thalys) and TGV.

Area

The South Tower, the tallest building in Belgium,^[6] stands in front of the station's main exit (the crossroad of the Avenue Fonsny/Fonsnylaan and the Rue Couverte/Bedektestraat) and houses the Belgian Federal Pensions Service (FPS).^[7]