Railways

The Green 62 (Groene 62) in Belgium lives up to its name. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Wijnendale, where the excavated railway bed has transformed into a verdant microcosm.

Those who stroll along the canal near the Redersplein in Brussels will encounter a striking sight: a 1923 steam locomotive perched on an abandoned railway bridge spanning the Brussels-Scheldt Sea Canal.

Since 2023, a shunting locomotive from the NMBS (Belgian National Railways) has stood proudly at the entrance to Ougrée's new city boulevard. Its location was no coincidence. 

The neo-Gothic station building of Binche today forms the impressive terminus of a railway line that once continued all the way to the border station of Erquelinnes.

Along the Moselle lie the silent remnants of a railway bridge that was once of great strategic importance. The bridge was part of the dense railway network that, from the late 19th century, connected Germany’s industrial regions.

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.