Industrial Heritage

Two brothers, Charles and Jules Collart, secured a concession in 1881 to mine iron ore at the foot of the Katzenberg in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

A well-hidden pedestrian tunnel under the railway in Brussels, inaugurated in 1913, connects two branches of the Koninginnelaan.

Pont de l'Origine is one of the drawbridges along the old canal between Brussels and Charleroi. 

In both Seneffe and Arquennes, traffic was guided over the Brussels-Charleroi Canal via a swing bridge.

A monument erected at the end of the twentieth century to pay tribute to the city's wool industry proves that Verviers was once the focal point of the Belgian wool industry.

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

A three-arched brick viaduct stretches over the River Haine at Maurage.

This truncated metal headframe took miners from the French Meurchin coal mine four hundred metres underground to cut coal.

In 1941, the National Local Railway Company (NMVB) built a bridge over the Gete for tram traffic between Sint-Truiden and Tienen.

A metal railway bridge over the Canal du Centre commemorates the passage of railway line 107 between Écaussinnes and Haine-Saint-Pierre in the province of Hainaut.