Was it Centraal? That would have been my guess.

throw-the-towel 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nope, the biggest station is actually Midi/Zuid.

jonasdegendt 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hah nope! Even as a Belgian I find the naming of the Brussels train stations maddening. Brussels-Midi is the south station, so Brussel-Zuid. Midi allegedly means south in French, but I've never actually heard it being used over "sud", also south.

In conversation, midi also means noon (e.g. used as "meet me at noon"), which for my brain correlates more with central than south, given the context of a day.

Not a linguist, so what do I know, maybe someone else can chime in.

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throw-the-towel 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Southern France is also called le Midi!

BTW, Ukrainian shares the same logic, but it also calls the north "midnight" (північ). Meanwhile, Armenian calls the east and west "sun exit" and "sun entrance" (արևելք, արևմուտք) respectively.

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umanwizard 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

In Europe (and anywhere else north of the Tropic of Cancer), the sun is always approximately due south at noon. That’s the reason for the connection, and “midi” indeed means both south (in some contexts) and noon in French.

	▲	jonasdegendt 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Makes a lot of sense, thanks for the insight!