Hainaut
A vast forest in Wallonia was crossed in 1876 by the single-track line 90A between Jurbise and Saint-Ghislain.
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Liège
Close to the three-country point between Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, you will find remains of a train stop named after an unsightly hamlet that is part of Plombières.
East Flanders
Almost thirty years after the construction of this useless bridge, the planned regional road underneath has still not been constructed. Instead of cars rushing by, nature is given free rein for now.
East Flanders
In the East Flemish village of Basel, there is a two-hundred-year-old suspension bridge that engineer Jean-Baptiste Vifquain designed on behalf of Philippe Vilain XIIII, a Dutch King William I chamberlain.
East Flanders
Since 1870, trains and pedestrians have been able to cross the Scheldt at Temse along a 343-meter-long bridge.
Belgian coast
Hauts-de-France
Railway line 73 connected the French port city of Dunkirk with the Belgian Adinkerke.
Hainaut
In the 19th century, many Flemish inhabitants commuted daily by train to le Centre (the mining region around La Louvière) to descend into one of the coal mines.
Hainaut
Twenty years after construction started, the Strépy-Thieu boat lift lifted the first boats. Until 2016, it was the largest ship lift in the world.
Hainaut
The millions of euros of public money pumped into the renovation of the Binche coal preparation plant since 2008 are still not making any difference a decade later.
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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On the occasion of International Art Nouveau Day, celebrated each year on June 10, a look at how this ornate architectural movement found its way into the most unlikely of places like coal mines, power stations, and railway yards and the long, sometimes heartbreaking battles to save what remains.
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