title: Tirou metro station
text: # Tirou metro station
  
  Tirou is a Charleroi Metro station, located in downtown Charleroi, in fare zone 1. Tirou is an open-air station located at street level (Rue de l'écluse) and offers same-platform bus transfer.
  
  The station's lateral platform are publicly accessible and serve as regular street sidewalks.
  
  The station and the nearby Tirou Boulevard are named after Joseph Tirou (1876–1952), a former Belgian politician and mayor of Charleroi.
  
  ## Nearby points of interest
  
  * Boulevard Joseph Tirou, the main shopping district in the lower town of Charleroi.
  * Institut Notre-Dame school.
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  ## Transfers
  
  TEC Charleroi bus lines 1, 3, 4, 10, 13, 14, 18, 25, 35, 37, 41, 42, 52, 71, 74, 86, E, E/
  
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