Railways

Trains have been thundering over the Vierendeel bridge in Grammene between Deinze and De Panne for over a century.

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.

After over half a century, a double staircase climbing up the railway embankment is the only reminder of the vanished Tertre Charbonnage train station.

Ghent and Eeklo have been connected by railway line 58 since 1861. A year later, a railway bridge over the Schipdonk canal allowed travellers to travel further to Maldegem.

An iron railway bridge has stretched across the Old Rhine close to the Dutch border for over a century and a half.

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.

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.

Slender columns with Corinthian capitals support a canopy in glass and iron above the platforms of Pepinster station.

A 180-year-old tunnel still recalls the Verviers-West head-end station on the railway line between Liège and the border with the German city of Aachen.