TW Classic Train ticket 2023

No. The TW Classic train ticket is only available via sncb.be/twclassic.
You can print it out or store it on your smartphone or tablet.

Yes, if you are departing from Brussels Airport - Zaventem station, you need to buy a Brussels Airport Supplement in addition to your TW Classic train ticket. A return to Brussels Airport - Zaventem after the festival is not possible as there is no special night train to this station.

You can buy a TW Classic Night train ticket:

• in conjunction with an international journey by Thalys or Eurostar: select Antwerpen-Centraal or Bruxelles-Midi as departure station for your TW Classic Night train ticket.
• if you land at Brussels Airport: select Brussels Airport - Zaventem as departure station for your TW Classic Night train ticket. You will need to buy two stand-alone Brussels Airport Supplements on top of your train ticket: one for your outward journey and one for your homeward journey.
• if you land at Brussels South Charleroi Airport: select Charleroi-Sud as departure station for your TW Classic Night train ticket. You will also need a Bus TEC Charleroi Airport Ticket to and from Charleroi-Central station.
• in combination with a train ticket that is valid on a foreign railway network until the Belgian border. Your TW Classic Night train ticket is valid from the border to Leuven station. When buying your train ticket, select one of the following first Belgian stations as departure station:
  • coming from The Netherlands: Essen (via Roosendaal), Noorderkempen (via Breda) or Visé (via Maastricht – Eijsden)
  • coming from Germany: Hergenrath
  • coming from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: Arlon, Athus or Gouvy
  • coming from France: Mouscron, Froyennes, Quiévrain, Quévy or Erquelinnes

TW Classic Train tickets are nominative, so they cannot be passed on or sold.
These tickets cannot be exchanged, cancelled or refunded.

For more information, please contact our customer service directly via our webform.

Extra night trains will be running from Leuven to one of 20 served stations. You can take a night train only with a TW Classic Nighttrain ticket. This ticket is valid as a reservation. The terminal station of the night train on your train ticket must therefore match the night train that you take.

You can of course get off at an earlier stop.

Your TW Classic Night Train Ticket gives you free access (from 18/06, 8am to 19/06, 8am) to one of the following NMBS car parks: Aalst, Denderleeuw, Gent-Sint-Pieters, Wetteren, Kortrijk, Deinze, Waregem, Roeselare, Mechelen and Antwerp-Central, where night trains stop.

Night trains also stop at these stations with free external parking: Liedekerke, Dendermonde, Kontich-Lint, Merelbeke, Harelbeke and Izegem.

The stations of Brussels North, Brussels Central, Brussels South, Mortsel-Oude-God and Antwerp-Berchem are also served by night trains, whose external car parks remain chargeable.

To access the NMBS car park before the concert:

• from your car, press the flashing button next to the yellow slot of the entrance terminal
• collect your entrance ticket
• enter the car park and take the train to Leuven

After returning by night train:

• Insert your parking ticket, which you received when you entered the car park, into the pay station
• Scan the parking barcode on your train ticket
• The rate will be 0€ and your parking ticket will be validated

No, the special De Lijn bus between Leuven station and the Werchter festival park is included in your train ticket.

At the control on the train during your outward journey.

There will be an access control before boarding the night train. As train tickets are personal, you will need to show your TW Classic train ticket with the correct code and your ID card.

The offer of night trains is determined by a commercial agreement with the festival organizer. The origin of the visitors is the basis for this.