European Railroad Discussion > Brussels in December

A few pics from a weekend in Brussels in December.

Standard Eurostar pics in St Pancras an original clas 373 e300 set and a new class 374 e320 set and lunch.

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A visit to Train World [the Belgian railway museum] was in order and the visit starts in the old Schaerbeek station with the main exhibits being in a purpose built building which is very interactive with lots of atmospheric lighting and visual displays to track the history of the Belgian railways, it must have been good as my  wife thoroughly enjoyed it. 
The rear of the station, the existing station is on the right and consists of platforms and ticket machines.
Ticket office
Lots of memoribilia similar to this.

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Some views of the museum exhibits.

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2 views of our nearest tram station Bourse/Beurs
Interior of a Flexity 4000 7 segment tram.

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Tram line 3 terminus, Esplanade and the truning circle.
Heysel metro station.

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Brussels is a wonderful city.  Made a number of business trips there in the 1990's.
Unfortunately, my visits did not include railroads or railfanning.
Have really enjoyed your excellent photo posting.  
Thanks very much.  Happy New Year!
ALLEN

Traveled to Paris from Cologne 15+ years ago on a Thalys train that stopped in Brussels but not at a stub end station.  Where would we have stopped?
jb

You probably stopped at Brussels Midi or Zuid.  Gerry
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boejoe Wrote:
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> Traveled to Paris from Cologne 15+ years ago on a
> Thalys train that stopped in Brussels but not at a
> stub end station.  Where would we have stopped?
> jb

Nice set, always liked Brussels.

Looking at pictures 1 and 2, I thought only Amtrak had dirty passenger trains.

Astonishing amounts of beer, chocolate, and trains.

Great country

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