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France Belfries - Unesco World Heritage Site
An unequalled ensemble of fifty-six Belfries of Belgium and France is designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Site, in recognition of an architectural manifestation of emerging civic independence in historic Flanders and neighbouring regions from feudal and religious influences, leading to a degree of local democracy of great significance in the history of humankind.
UNESCO inscribed 32 towers onto its list of Belfries of Flanders and Wallonia in 1999. In 2005, the belfry of Gembloux in the Walloon Region of Belgium and 23 belfries from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardie régions in the northern tip of France were appended to the renamed list. A notable omission is the Brussels City Hall belfry, as it was already part of the Grand Place World Heritage Site.
Besides civic belfries, or buildings such as city halls that rather obviously may have rendered a similar service, the list includes religious buildings that also had served as watchtower or alarm bell tower: the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, the St. Rumbolds Tower in Mechelen, and the St. Leonard's Church in Zoutleeuw - all three in Flanders, Belgium. Few of them are standalone towers; most are connected to larger buildings. ( source Wikipedia )
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2008 Belgium World Heritage set : The Belfries of Belgium
Euro coin set from Belgium, 2008. Theme : the belfries of Belgium. In the Middle Ages, a lot of cities in Flanders built a belfry as high as possible to show their power. Nowadays, 32 of them are recognised as World Heritage by the Unesco. These are the cities : Aalst - Antwerpen ( 2x ) - Brugge - Dendermonde - Diksmuide - Eeklo - Gent - Herentals - Ieper - Kortrijk - Leuven - Lier - Lo Reninge - Mechelen - Menen - Nieuwpoort - Oudenaarde - Roeselare - Sint Truiden - Tielt - Tienen - Tongeren - Veurne - Zoutleeuw - Bergen - Binche - Charleroi - Doornik - Gembloers - Namen - Thuin. this set contains the 8 euro denominations and a coloured coin.
Belgium: A view inside a luxury 'M4' first class coach on a Brussels Midi to Liege St Lambert train
Belgium: View inside a luxury 'M4' first class coach on the 1003 Brussels Midi to Liege Saint Lambert service. The train was hauled by SNCB class 27 electric loco number 2736. Recorded 5th 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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Brussels (French: Bruxelles; Dutch: Brussel, officially the Brussels-Capital Region (French: Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community,[ but is separate from the Flemish Region (in which it forms an enclave) and the Walloon Region. Brussels is the most densely populated and the richest region in Belgium in terms of GDP per capita. It covers 161 km2 (62 sq mi), a relatively small area compared to the two other regions, and has a population of 1.2 million. The metropolitan area of Brussels counts over 2.1 million people, which makes it the largest in Belgium. It is also part of a large conurbation extending towards Ghent, Antwerp, Leuven and Walloon Brabant, home to over 5 million people.
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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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Belgium: x2 NMBS/SNCB Class 27s leave Bruxelles-Midi (Brussels-South) station
x2 NMBS/SNCB Class 2700s (2701 & 2718) leave Bruxelles-Midi (Brussels-South) station after arriving on train P7401, the 0726 Liege Guillemins to Brussels Midi.
Clip recorded 4th October 2018.
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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Brussels-South (French: Bruxelles-Midi, Dutch: Brussel-Zuid, IATA code: ZYR) is one of the three major railway stations in Brussels (the other two are Brussels Central and Brussels North) and the busiest station in Belgium. It is located on the territory of the municipality of Saint-Gilles/Sint-Gillis.
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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