Railways

A 49-meter-long bridge over the River Scheldt, dating back to 1959, was the first railway bridge in Belgium to utilise the technique of prestressed concrete.

A graceful arch bridge, a kilometres-long railway tunnel, and several pedestrian bridges still recall a railway line in France from the 1930s that was never completed.

Almost 100 years ago, the electric locomotive ADU No. 6 was assembled in the former steelworks of the Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange, better known as Arbed.

You will find relics of the former railway yard Spoor Oost along the ring track around Antwerp.

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.