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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Once a year, the Arenberg coal mine and two abandoned railway bridges play a starring role during the passage of the spring cycle classic: Paris-Roubaix.
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