It reopened on 1 December 1914, when it and the street it was named after had been renamed after the Belgian city of Liège, paying homage to the heroic Belgian resistance during the Battle of Liège who surely saved French and British armies.

Changing lifestyles and increasing redevelopment of the area, with residences replacing offices, inspired a sustained political campaign.

The Rue d'Amsterdam, being too narrow to accommodate the traditional station on network,[1]: 153–154  the trains stop at the first half-station encountered.

[2] The station was originally decorated, like all the non-connecting stations of the Société du Chemin de Fer Électrique Nord-Sud de Paris, simply known as the 'North-South', with its name advertised on vast mosaics and friezes of brown ceramic bearing the initials 'NS'.

This is based on ceramics made from photos of Welkenraedt and installed in the advertising frames of the right wall facing the single platforms of each half-station.