The station was built in an eclectic style with a long corridor dividing the building in its length which provides access to diverse facilities.

The station was served by a daily Thalys high-speed rail service to Paris between 1998 and 31 March 2015.

[3] In 2004, the Project Gent-Sint-Pieters was announced as part of a bigger plan to renovate line 50A between Ghent and Bruges.

The reconstructions were planned between 2007 and 2022 and included: The work is necessary to make the station more accessible and to increase capacity as the number of passengers grows every year.

This eventually will lead to the removal of several period features that are not part of the classified main building, like the platform canopies, waiting rooms, and the tunnel by P. Grondy.