Talk:Rail transport in Belgium

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In 1870 the Belgian state owned 863 km, while the private enterprises owned 2,231 km. From 1870 to 1882 the railways were gradually nationalised. In 1912, 786 km were state property compared to 275 km private linesand full nationalisation was considered, << these are some very strange numbers, someone has to look this up!

From over 3000 km to only 1000km within 12 years.

Correced it, in 1912 5,000 km of railway line was state owned —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.197.224.40 (talk) 21:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Boemeltrein
Isn't a boemeltrein simply a local train (a 'slow train')? I don't think it's at all specific to Belgium. And the fact it has fewer carriages is normal, and not notable, surely? In the given example, the stopping train is an 'IR' train on the timetables, rather than the faster 'IC'. (In other places the stopping trains are designated 'L' or 'CR'.) --David Edgar (talk) 15:16, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed, a boemeltrein is in fact an L train or local train that should stop at every station along the way. IC trains connect te bigger cities, IR trains connect the major cities with smaller stops. P trains are rushhour trains, they only drive during rushhour while all the rest runs the entire day. CR stands for City Rail, CR is intended as a service around Brussels and will later be changed to GEN once all the works for the GEN are completed. 88.197.190.84 (talk) 11:47, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Request to redirect
Request to redirect Belgian railways to Belgian Railways instead of to this page. There's a small disambiguation page now. Wakari07 (talk) 16:38, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree with this, I'll make the change. —fudoreaper (talk) 15:51, 18 September 2012 (UTC)