The Borinage must once have had the densest railway network in the world, and that was due to the large concentration of coal mines in the region.
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The Borinage must once have had the densest railway network in the world, and that was due to the large concentration of coal mines in the region.
Of the forty-five historic railway bridges built in 1870, twenty-nine still span Berlin's Yorckstraße today.
The Belgian Ronse station is today the terminus for trains from Ghent, but until the mid-twentieth century, it was a junction of four different railway lines.
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?
In a remote corner of the Maritime Station, a former freight station in Brussels, a water tower in the Art Nouveau style was built to refuel steam locomotives with water.
The Estrée viaduct stretches 27 meters above Chaussée d'Alsemberg, an abandoned railway bridge over which no trains have passed for more than forty years.
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