TRAM MUSEUM OF THUIN

 July 7, 2015

We made an excursion to the tram museum in Thuin. 

The Vicinal Historic Tramway Discovery Centre, is a museum housing thirty tramcars which once ran for the SNCV (National Light Railway Company). It houses a steam engine from 1888 and the oldest completely electric tramcar, built in Belgium in 1901. A rural tram route is operated by enthusiastic volunteers, using vehicles which retrace the history of the world's larges tram network.



The tram museum



Trams of the 70th



and older once



I suppose this wagon was for luggages






I still remember this tram I took beginning the 60th to go to school. Only in Brussels they were yellow.




The seats are in wood



A driver cabin











views from out of the tram

We made a trip through the streets of Thuin, across a bridge over the river Sambre and through the countryside which offered unique views you couldn't see from a car.

We enjoyed our trip in these old trams very much. For me it was a trip into the past !



Today in Brussels the trams look like this !