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La majorité des journalistes dans le monde ont choisi de développer leur sujet sur des thèmes polémiques et sensationnels : violence, guerre, criminalité. Mais tous ces faits ne représentent que 1 % de notre monde et de ses habitants, en oubliant les 99 % restant dont on ne parle jamais.
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Taste of Belgium | 2013
This video gives you a taste of the country famous for its beers, chocolate, waffles and lovely villages, featuring Brussels, Bruges, Waterloo and Braine l'Alleud.
Some of the main highlights are: the Atomium, Grote Markt, Mini-Europe, Manneken Pis, European Parliament, etc.
Belgium: Braine l'Alleud, four SNCB class 27 electric locos working 'top & tail' passenger trains
Belguim: A busy scene at Braine l'Alleud with SNCB Class 27 electric locos 2753 & 2752 arriving on a southbound train formed of single deck 'M4' coaches and 2745 & 2750 departing on northbound train IC4512, the 1227 Charleroi Sud to Essen, formed of double deck 'M6' coaches. Both trains are operating in 'top & tail' formation with a loco at each end of the train. Recorded 4th October 2018.
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The SNCB Class 27 was the first of the large 1980s family of 144 electric locomotives. The family was made up of Classes 11 (12), 12 (12), 21 (60) and 27 (60). Classes 11, 12 and 21 were nearly twice as powerful as Classes 22, 23 and 25. Class 27 was more than twice as powerful as the 1950s locomotives. This family was heavily influenced by the Class 20² locomotives built in the mid 1970s. This family came into service with M4 and M5 coaching stock and the AM 80 and AM 86 series of EMUs. These four sister classes are visually identical except for a few minor details. Class 11's livery is specific to the Benelux service on which they operated on for most of their service lives.
Class 27 locomotives are the staple power for SNCB/NMBS. They work all over the 3000 volt electrified lines including the occasional trip through to Luxembourg City. The arrival of Class 13 had little impact on Class 27 at the time as the 13s were occupied with trains of I11 coaching stock and goods trains working on newly electrified sections under 25000 volts, 50 HZ where Class 27s could not go. Class 27s were frequently engaged in pulling heavy freights from the Flemish ports to the sorting yard at Montzen, near the German border. They also pulled a number of passenger services including peak hour trains of M5 double deck coaching stock. They have become very active on trains with the newer M6 stock. Locos 2742 to 2760 have been modified with MUX and automatic couplers at one end so they can work in multiple in push-pull trains made up of two Class 27s each with a rake of five M6 coaches running one behind the other. The trains start at separate destinations and join up later to run together as a unit over most of their route. Later they split up and go their separate ways to their final destinations and reverse for the return journey.
Locomotive 2711 currently holds the world record for the longest passenger train ever pulled by a single locomotive. The record was set on 27 April 1991, when the locomotive pulled 70 carriages from Gent to Oostende.
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The Brussels-Capital Region is bilingual; hence, both the French and Dutch names of the station are official. Outside Belgium, this often leads to the use of combined shorthands; for example in the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable, Brussels-South is designated as Brussels Midi/Zuid; Dutch Railways announce the station as Brussel Zuid/Midi.
The Belgian railway network grew rapidly during the second half of the 19th century, and the old station quickly became too small, so it was demolished. A new monumental station designed by architect Auguste Payen opened in 1869, a short distance south of the original site. Payen's terminal station was itself demolished in 1949 and replaced on its present site by a through station, as part of the North-South connection project. Most of the current buildings were erected between 1939 and 1954, in modernist style, from plans by architects Adrien and Yvan Blomme and Fernand Petit. The rear part, built in front of the Victor Horta square, and designed in 1992 by architect Marc De Vreese, serves as a terminal for high-speed trains.
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NMBS/SNCB is the national railway company of Belgium. The company formally styles itself using the Dutch and French abbreviations NMBS/SNCB, however it is commonly referred to in English and internationally using just the French abbreviation SNCB. The corporate logo designed in 1936 by Henry van de Velde consists of the linguistically neutral letter B in a horizontal oval.
Belgium has a rail network of 3,602km of main railway lines (or 6,399km of mainline tracks).
The network currently includes four high speed lines suitable for 300 km/h (190 mph) traffic: HSL 1 runs from just south of Brussels to the French border, where it continues to a triangular junction with LGV Nord for Paris Nord and Lille Flandres (and London beyond that), HSL 2 runs from Leuven to Ans and onward to Liège-Guillemins, HSL 3 runs from Liège to the German border near Aachen and HSL 4 connects with HSL-Zuid in the Netherlands to allow services to run from Antwerpen-Centraal to Rotterdam Centraal.
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Brussels tourism waterloo and autoworld
Le parc du Cinquantenaire et la butte du lion de Waterloo
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Louvain la Neuve, Belgium
Louvain-la-Neuve (pop. 30,000), 30km south of Brussels, is an almost exclusively student town. The town was only founded in 1972, after the split of the University of Leuven (Louvain in French) between the Dutch and French speakers in 1968, thus creating the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL).
Louvain-la-Neuve is not only th newest town in Belgium, but also a quite particular one, as half of its population are currently attending its university, while the other half is made mostly of former students, making it also the youngest town in the country.
The novelty of the town means that there is of course no historical buildings, but Louvain-la-Neuve make it up by its architectural harmony, pure air (the town is mostly pedestrian) and its spaciousness. It was designed around a lake and the modern layout of its streets certainly contrast with that of other Belgian cities.
In other words, Louvain-la-Neuve is more like a very big village where people greet each others at almost every corner, and parties presides over the life of its inhabitants.
The only touristic site is Museum of Louvain-la-Neuve, although the whole city is an attraction in itself.
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Brugge Belgium
A boat trip to Brugge's canals. May 2012
Waterloo Travel
Waterloo Travel - Waterloo is a historic town in the Walloon province of Walloon Brabant in Belgium (close to Brussels).
Hourly trains run from Brussels and (on weekdays) Leuven to Nivelles, stopping at Waterloo and Eigenbrakel/Braine-l'Alleud. From either of these stations it is a 3-kilometre walk to the site. The most convenient way to get to Waterloo from Brussels is the hourly bus to Charleroi operated by TEC. It starts at Brussel-Zuid/Midi station and, after about half an hour, has a stop that is just 300 metres away from the Lion's Mound.
Tourists have been swarming to Waterloo ever since Napoleon's 1815 defeat when one of Europe’s bloodiest ever battles caused 32,000 deaths and changed the course of history. Before visiting, do remember that a battlefield is, after all, just a field. Or in this case many fields – a vast, attractive patchwork of gently undulating cropland dotted with memorials and museums. For the full experience come during one of the battle re-enactments, usually held on the weekend nearest the battle’s anniversary (18 June).
The main battlefield site is known as Lion Hamlet. That's some 5km south of central Waterloo town where the tourist office rents bicycles, opposite the inn at which Wellington stayed – now the modest if well laid-out Musée Wellington.
Other sites are spread considerably further afield.
Enjoy Your Waterloo Travel!
Belgium: Two NMBS/SNCB Class 18 electric locos leave Gent Sint-Pieters in Top and Tail formation
Two NMBS/SNCB Class 18 electric locomotives (1824 Front / 1843 Rear) leave Gent Sint-Pieters station in Top and Tail formation working train IC439, the 1649 Welkenraedt to Kortrijk.
Clip recorded 4th October 2018.
The SNCB/NMBS HLE 18 (Siemens class ES60U3) are a series of four axle Bo′Bo′ multivoltage electric Siemens EuroSprinter locomotives ordered in two batches of sixty in 2006 and 2008.
The locomotives were supplied for use by SNCB/NMBS (Belgian national railways) on passenger services.
96 of the class form the HLE 18 class, 24 units fitted with an automatic central coupler form the SNCB HLE 19 class.
The locomotives were ordered to replace SNCB Class 13 and Class 27 locomotives on passenger intercity services.
Locomotive number 1860 was officially presented at InnoTrans in 2008. The first unit, number 1801 was transferred to the Velim railway test circuit for testing in December 2008.
On March 3, 2009, the first unit (roadnumber 1802) was officially delivered to SNCB/NMBS for test and homologation purpose. Homologation issues delayed commercial introduction (originally planned for the summer timeschedule - May 2011), as a result Siemens was obliged to pay the maximum amount of penalties (€ 21.12 million).
In July 2011 the first revenue earning Intercity services ran, under temporary approval. The type received homologation certification for use in Belgium in late 2011.
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Gent-Sint-Pieters is the main railway station in Ghent, Belgium, and the third-busiest in Belgium, with 17.65 million passengers a year.
The origins of the railway station is a small station on the line Ghent-Ostend in 1881. At that time the main railway station of Ghent was the South railway station built in 1837. At the occasion of the 1913 world exhibition in Ghent, a new Sint-Pieters railway station was built. It was designed by architect Louis Cloquet and finished in 1912 just before the World Exhibition.
The station is built in an eclectic style with a long corridor dividing the building in its length which provides access to diverse facilities. A tunnel (designed by ir. P. Grondy) starting from the entrance hall provides access to the 12 platforms. This gives the station its cross-form design. The original waiting rooms for second and third class now serve as a buffet and restaurant.
The station was classified in 1995. In 1996 the station was renovated, with the renovation of the interior of the western wing completed in 1998.
In the middle of 2007 the project entered a new phase to make the station more customer-oriented. The work is planned to be completed by 2022. This eventually will lead to the removal of several period features that are not part of the classified main building, like the platform canopies, waiting rooms, and the tunnel by P. Grondy.
In 2007, the tower at the entrance of the station has been renovated. In 2008 a new glass canopy was placed at the main entrance. In 2010, the murals of the main entrance hall have been renovated.
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Ghent is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the second largest municipality in Belgium, after Antwerp.The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. It is a port and university city.
As one of the largest cities in Belgium, Ghent has a highly developed transport system. The municipality of Ghent comprises five railway stations:
Gent-Sint-Pieters Station: an international railway station with connections to Bruges, Brussels, Antwerp, Kortrijk, other Belgian towns and Lille. The station also offers a direct connection to Brussels Airport.
Gent-Dampoort Station: an intercity railway station with connections to Sint-Niklaas, Antwerp, Kortrijk and Eeklo.
Gentbrugge Station: a regional railway station in between the two main railway stations, Sint-Pieters and Dampoort.
Wondelgem Station: a regional railway station with connections to Eeklo once an hour.
Drongen Station: a regional railway station in the village of Drongen with connections to Bruges once an hour.
Ghent has an extensive network of public transport lines, operated by De Lijn.
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Ottignies - Louvain-la-Neuve : EDEN award winner 2013 in Belgium
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SNCB Bruxelles Heure de Pointe.
The Brussels rush hour witnesses an orgy of loco-hauled trains passing between the three city centre stations of Midi, Central and Nord, as they head towards a wide variety of Belgian destinations. A handful of these 'P' trains as they are known, are hauled by the older SNCB classes 23 or 26, or the recently displaced class 11. The rest are hauled by the more modern classes 21/27 or class 13. Some of the trains are double-headed or top and tailed, this is necessary for the older electric locomotives to cope with the new double-decker stock, which can be formed in rakes of up to 10 vehicles.
I hope you enjoy this snapshot of life on the Belgian railway in the rush hour.