Hainaut
At the end of 2014, the demolition hammer threatened the modernist concrete mine shaft of Saint-Albert in the village of Péronnes-lez-Binche.
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Hainaut
In the shadow of the Strépy boat lift, an unused four-lane road leads to a freshly ploughed field.
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Coal trains, military transports and steam locomotives across the High Fens have made way for cyclists on the historic Vennbahn—a report of the route between the German city Aachen and Waismes, in Belgium.
Hainaut
The four historic boat lifts on the Center Canal in Hainaut overcome a height difference of 68 meters between the river basins of the Meuse and the Scheldt in Belgium.
Hainaut
In Ressaix, you will still find some relics of railway line 241, which branched off from Leval station to the coal mines in Péronnes-lez-Binche.
Hainaut
When the Quesnoy coal mine closed in 1972, it was the last active mine in the Belgian Center coal region.
Hainaut
A kilometre-long canal tunnel was dug at the end of the nineteenth century to allow larger ships to sail on the canal.
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