Tramway museum in Brussels

  Museum of Brussels Urban Transport seems to be one of the biggest tram museum in Europe. We can enjoy not only normal exhibition but also heritage tram-riding into the town.

 

 

There is a combination ticket with visiting museum and historic tram-trip. 



It is possible to ride the tram from some station which the historic vehicles run through.

 

 

Tourist Tramway also run about 40km occasionally (see official website).

 

 

 

 Tram depot style museum offers also the opportunity of looking historic buses.

 

 

There are various non-revenue equipment. It looks like the special car for cleaning railroad.

 

Brussels public transport system has changed dynamically rather than Japanese one. In other words, scrap and build is effective to save money for maintain of whole regional transportation of 2.6 million population. The combination between previous tram and new underground network have same tariff system and offer convenient transfer in the underground stations. Some abandoned tram lines were replaced with metro or integrated to 'Pre-metro'.

 

 In the city centre, the tram runs into the underground network. Some of them are called 'Pre-metro', because the network is considered to conversion the real metro system in advance.  

 



 

Anyway, it is worth to visit Brussels if you are interested in transport systems.

http://www.trammuseumbrussels.be/

(2013/2/28)