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Events in the year 1872 in Belgium .
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Events in the year 1872 in Belgium .
The Société Franco-Belge was a Franco-Belgian engineering firm that specialised in the construction of railway vehicles and their components and accessories. The company originated in 1859 as the Belgian firm Compagnie Belge pour la Construction de Machines et de Matériels de Chemins de Fer, founded by Charles Evrard. The company expanded its share capital in 1881 forming a new firm Société Anonyme Franco-Belge pour la Construction de Machines et de Matériel de Chemins de Fer and constructed a factory in Raismes (Valenciennes) in the Département Nord in France.
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. Belgium was the first state in Europe to create a national railway network and the first to possess a nationalised railway system. The network expanded fast as Belgium industrialised, and by the early 20th century was increasingly under state-control. The nationalised railways, under the umbrella organisation National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB), retained their monopoly until liberalisation in the 2000s.
Events in the year 1834 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1835 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1836 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1838 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1839 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1843 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1863 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1845 in Belgium.
The following lists events that happened during 1907 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Events in the year 1852 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1873 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1874 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1851 in Belgium.
The following lists events that happened during 1908 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Henri Borguet was Belgian entrepreneur who built in Belgium the first steam passenger railway in continental Europe, between Brussels and Mechelen.
Events in the year 1877 in Belgium.
Events in the year 1848 in Belgium.
The Société royale grand-ducale des chemins de fer Guillaume-Luxembourg or "Royal Grand Ducal William-Luxembourg Railway Company", was a Luxembourgish company, with French capital, created in 1857 to operate the 1855 concessions for the railway lines in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. It constructed a set of lines that made up the railway network called the Guillaume-Luxembourg network. It was never an operating company, transferring this activity to a French company, the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est, then to the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine in 1872, to the Administration des chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine in 1919, and then to the SNCF in 1938. During the German occupation in World War II, the Deutsche Reichsbahn operated the network until the liberation; the Guillaume-Luxembourg company ceased to exist as such in 1946 with the creation of the Société nationale des chemins de fer luxembourgeois.
