Namur

The first steam locomotive built in Belgium left the workshops of John Cockerill in Seraing at the end of December 1835.

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.

The Cul du Mont forest's flank is littered with the Linglé slate quarry's ruins.

After over fifty years of disuse, this old quarry was cleaned up and made accessible to the general public again.

Fewer traffic jams and fewer trucks through the centre. There was no shortage of noble intentions when the mayor of a Walloon municipality unveiled plans at the beginning of this century to construct a new, three-kilometre-long bypass between the motorway entrance and exit complex and the industrial park.

In the early twentieth century, a water tower was erected near the Treignes border station to supply the steam locomotives running between Charleroi and the French border.