Railways

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.

The Wiedauwkaai bridge over the canal-Terneuzen is a swing bridge that allows passenger traffic over the railway line between Ghent and Eeklo and freight transport towards the Kluizendok.

The Albert Canal was opened to shipping in 1939. However, its construction had consequences for rail traffic. Railway line 20's route between Hasselt and Maastricht was changed, and the Albert Canal at Gellik was crossed via a Vierendeel bridge.

Not much remains of Ramskapelle's former railway station today, as it was shot to pieces during the Battle of the Yser. The station was, therefore, right on the front line along the Yser.

No expense was spared in building the more than 46-kilometre-long railway line between the Dutch town of Lage Zwaluwe and Hertogenbosch. Thus, in the 1880s, the construction of a spacious railway bridge above the Bossche inundation field began.