Water towers

In the early twentieth century, a water tower was erected near the Treignes border station to supply the steam locomotives running between Charleroi and the French border.

Mariembourg station, today the terminus of railway line 132 between Charleroi and the Belgian-French border, has a spacious water tower in store.

The ten-kilometre-long railway line 102 cut through the Borinage and connected several coal mines between Saint-Ghislain and Frameries.

A Monnoyer-type water tower stands in the shadow of the headframe and compressor building of the Helchteren-Zolder mine.

The Brothers of Charity built a new institution and school complex in Zwijnaarde around 1830, specifically with the Medical Pedagogical Institute Sint-Jozef.

A new concrete water tower was erected in 1984 in a Flemish Brabant village near Halle.

A stone's throw from Ostbahnhof station in the German capital, Berlin, you will come across this brick water tower from 1880.

A 50-meter-high water tower rises from the ground between the former Tempelhof railway yard tracks in Berlin. With a capacity of 400 cubic meters of water, he could supply ten steam locomotives with the snap of a finger.

Barely a quarter of a century after constructing the Anhalter Bahn railway depot, the water reservoir was no longer sufficient to supply the larger and more powerful steam locomotives. That is why a completely new water tower was erected in 1908.