The Rubens was an express train that linked Gare du Nord in Paris, France, with Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid in Brussels, Belgium.
The train was named after Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens.
[1] The Rubens was introduced together with the TEE Memling in the TEE-network to cope with the raising number of passengers between Paris and Brussels.
The return services were scheduled as the fifth of the six daily TEEs in both directions, departing around 6:45 p.m.[3] In 1987 the Rubens was, like the other Paris-Brussels TEE services, integrated into the new EuroCity network.
[4] On 23 May 1993 the EuroCity services between Paris and Brussels were classified as TEE again.