Today, no trains run along the former railway line 109 between Mons and Chimay, but historic steam locomotives and diesel and electric railways of the local railways in Belgium do.
When the Swedish mining company LKAB decided in 1903 to build an electric tram line in the young mining town of Kiruna, it wasn’t a luxury or a novelty. It was a pure necessity.
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As November 11 nears, the world pauses to mark the end of World War I in 1918, when the guns finally fell silent. In Belgium’s Flanders region, scarred by brutal trench warfare, the echoes of that conflict still endure.
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