Jul

6

Belgian Railway History Project – Update

Filed Under Local History on July 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment

I though today might be a good time to share another snapshot of my on-going project to Map all Belgium’s railways, past, present, and even to some extent future, with Google Earth. This snapshot is much more complete than the last one, though I still don’t consider it even close to finished.

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Nov

22

My Google Earth Railway History Project

Filed Under Computers, Local History, The Internet on November 22, 2009 | 7 Comments

This is not a finished project. Not even nearly. But I think it’s about time I shared what I have, and now is the perfect time since it’s the topic for this week’s Chit Chat Across The Pond segment on the Nosilla Cast.

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Jul

17

Google Earth – Illuminating our History

Filed Under Local History on July 17, 2008 | 3 Comments

Remains of Bridge on Line 25AI've loved Google Earth since I first used it, but today I had a real "wow" moment with it. Last Christmas my interest in trains was re-kindled when I took some time to do something I hadn't done in years, shoot some photographs in and around my native village, Duffel. I got some lovely shots of trains but also came across a very curious artefact. A lump of brick, cement and steel with a sign on it. The sign indicated that this strange lump was all that was left of a railway bridge. I looked around, there was nothing even remotely resembling a railway line, or indeed even the track bed of one. It turns out that most of the track bed was ripped up, and used to build the near-by E19 motorway, which runs between Brussels and Antwerp.

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