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) Eddy Merckx's one-hour record bicycle is on display in the station | |||||||||||
| Location | Josse Leemans, Anderlecht | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°49′00″N 4°16′51″E / 50.81667°N 4.28083°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | STIB/MIVB | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 2003 | ||||||||||
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The station entrance
Eddy Merckx is a Metro station on the western branch of Line 5 of the Brussels Metro. It is named after the Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx, five-times winner of the Tour de France.
The station opened on 15 September 2003 as part of an extension between Bizet and Erasme/Erasmus stations. It is decorated with objects commemorating Merckx, including, displayed in a glass cabinet on the station platform, the bicycle on which he set the hour record in 1972.