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One hundred years ago, the last train stopped at the prestigious "Château Royal d'Ardenne" train station. But what did the travellers look for in Belgian Little Switzerland?
The Belgian National Company of Light Railways was created in 1885 to establish a widespread network of local tramways outside cities and in rural areas. The tram network only reached this remote corner of the country near the French border in 1935.
A half-sunken, rusted, painted and wholly plundered ship has been floating in Berlin's East Harbor for a quarter of a century.
To export the millions of tons of coal produced in one of the seven Limburg mines, a coal railway line zigzagged from one coal mine to another.
Spinning mills, weaving mills, dyers and twisting mills: in the Belgian town of Ronse, you stumble over the remains of the textile past.
Between 1885 and 1892, a new port project rose from the ground along the Ghent-Terneuzen canal. Ghent's chief engineer and later mayor, Emile Braun, designed the harbour sheds.
A blue harbour crane dominates Dock North. Built in 1973 by Boom Metalworks, it was the last crane installed at the Handelsdok.
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