Trains have been thundering over the Vierendeel bridge in Grammene between Deinze and De Panne for over a century.
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Trains have been thundering over the Vierendeel bridge in Grammene between Deinze and De Panne for over a century.
The dunes of Raversijde, a seaside resort west of East, are home to not one but two German bunker complexes.
In 1874, a cross-border railway connected the Belgian town of Péruwelz with the French municipality of Anzin. The aim was to export coal from the northern French mining basin to Belgium.
Today, no trains run along the former railway line 109 between Mons and Chimay, but historic steam locomotives and diesel and electric railways of the local railways in Belgium do.
One of the most exceptional mining complexes in French Alsace, where potassium or potash was brought to the surface, is the Carreau Rodolphe.
In 1973, the foundation stone of the nuclear power plant of the future was laid in Kalkar, Germany. However, power was never produced there. Where did it go wrong?
On Christmas Eve 1944, disaster struck Kalken when a V1 bomb hit the Vaart canal in Kalken at 4 pm.
You can still find a monumental remnant of a nineteenth-century lime kiln complex along the Scheldt.
In 1990, a Sherman tank was parked at Balgerhoeke lock in Eeklo in honour of the Canadians who liberated the town from German occupation on 15 September 1944.
A water tower in the Walloon Brabant village of Virginal-Samme still recalls the architecture of the 1940s.
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