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CFL Line 50. Line 50 is a Luxembourgian railway line connecting Luxembourg City to the west of the country, leading to Kleinbettingen and on to Arlon, in south-eastern Belgium. The terminus at the eastern end is Luxembourg railway station. It is designated, and predominantly operated, by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois .
Arlon (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Luxembourgish: Arel ⓘ; Dutch: Aarlen [ˈaːrlə(n)] ⓘ; German: Arel ⓘ; Walloon: Årlon) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in and capital of the province of Luxembourg in the Ardennes, Belgium. With a population of just over 28,000, it is the smallest provincial capital in Belgium.
On May 5, 1835, the first railway in continental Europe opened between Brussels -Groendreef/Allée verte and Mechelen. Some sort of railroad or canal had been envisaged as early as 1830. The feasibility of a railroad was investigated by engineers Pierre Simons and Gustave De Ridder. The first trains were Stephenson engines imported from Great ...
The Belgian railway line 162 is a railway line in Belgium connecting Namur to the Luxembourg border at Sterpenich ( Arlon ). Completed in 1859, the line runs 146.8 km. [1] Together with the Belgian railway line 161 ( Brussels – Namur) and the CFL Line 50 ( Sterpenich – Luxembourg City ), it forms the important rail link between Brussels and ...
Le Belge ("The Belgian"; 1835) was the first steam locomotive built in continental Europe. Belgium was heavily involved in the early development of railway transport. Belgium was the second country in Europe, after Great Britain, to open a railway and produce locomotives. The first line, between the cities of Brussels and Mechelen opened in 1835.
Victor Tesch. Victor Jean-Baptiste Tesch (12 March 1812 – 16 June 1892) [1] was a Luxembourgish and Belgian jurist, industrialist, journalist and liberal politician. He was born in 1812 in Messancy (then still part of Luxembourg, now part of Belgium), one of nine children of Jean-Frédérich Tesch (1774-1844) and Marie-Cécile Nothomb (1780 ...
CFL Line 80. Line 80 is a Luxembourgian railway line connecting Rodange to Belgium. It is designated Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, but predominantly operated by NMBS/SNCB. The services overlap with those designated as Line 70. On the Belgian side of the border the routes are numbered in the NMBS/SNCB series. [1] The routes are all electrified ...
All railway lines in Belgium are identified by a route number and these numbers are in widespread general use (for example, in passenger train timetables). Most of the numbers have remained unchanged since the creation of the SNCB/NMBS in the 1920s, although line closures and the construction of new routes have led to a few alterations over the years.