List and tourist tram railroads of Belgium

Belgium was one of the very first countries to be obtained a railway network, and the many ones impassioned wish to ensure the safeguarding of this technical and historical inheritance characteristic of Belgium.

It is the same for the many networks of trams, urban or local, which structured the territory and marked the Belgian character.

The unit constitutes a major tourist attraction of the country.

The lists which follow enumerate tourist trains or trams which are truths machines which roll on rails. It does not include/understand the “tourist trains” made up of some tyred carriages drawn by tractors disguised out of engines which one can see circulating in the streets of many tourist resorts.

They summarily mention the main features of each tourist network:

standard Spacing of the rails
of driving material: Locomotive with Diesel loco vapor, , railway Rail-car, urban Tram, local Tram…
Existence of a museum associated with the tourist network.
Web site

Area of Brussels-Capital

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MTUB - Museum of the urban transport of Brussels - normal Way - electric urban Trams - Museum

Flemish Area

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BVS - Belgische Vrienden van of Stoomlocomotief to Dendermonde - normal Way - http://www.stoomtrein.be/
LSV - Limburgse Stoom- Vereniging with Waterschei - normal Way - Vapor and diesel.
Stoomcentrum with Maldegem - Way of 0,60 m (1,5 km) and sees normal (10 km) - Locomotive vapor, diesel and rail-cars - Museum - http://www.stoomcentrum.be/
Tram of the Belgian side (in exploitation of public service) - metric gauge Track - electric Trams (with a tourist exploitation by the T.T.O. - Noordzee)

Walloon region

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ASVi - Association for the safeguard of local the with Thuin - metric gauge Track - local and urban Trams - Museum - http://www.asvi.be/index/index.htm
CFS - Museum and railroad of Sprimont to Sprimont - Way of 0,60m - Vapor and diesel - important Material of railway archeology
CFV3V - Railroad in Vapeur of the Three Valleys to Mariembourg - normal Way - Vapor, diesel and rail-car - Museum - http://cfv3v.in-site-out.com/
the Small train of Happiness - Rail Rebecq Kidney, of Rebecq to Kidney - way of 0,60 Mr. - Vapor - http://rrr.foudurail.net/
PFT-TSP Railroad of Bocq to Ciney - normal way - rail-car and possibly vapor - http://www.cfbocq.be/
Tram of Han - metric gauge Track - local Tram diesel - http://users.skynet.be/tramdehan/
TTA - tourist Tram of Aisne - metric gauge Track between Erezée and Dochamps - local Tram diesel - http://www.tta.be/
the railroad tourist museum of High Fagnes on the Vennbahn (of Eupen and Büllingen) - normal Way - vapor is not exploited any more - http://www.vennbahn.de/

The Musée of public transport of the Country of Liege (museum deprived of lane) presents urban trams, bus, trolley bus,…

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