On 05/08/2022 19:14, Clank wrote:
> Spent a few hours there this afternoon and thought of uk.railway,
> naturally...
>
> It's a nice little museum, worth a (2 to 3 hour) visit if you're
> in Brussels I think. It's a lot more 'staged' than somewhere
> like the tram museum in the same city, with plenty of moody
> lighting and jaunty angles, and the collection isn't massive -
> perhaps a dozen locos or units - but despite that, very nicely
> done I thought.
>
> Things I particularly liked are that it's easy to get up close and
> personal to almost everything, most of the collection you can
> climb into or onboard, and there is an almost total absence of
> "no touching" signs or ropes. Also I thought the way the
> track/OHL equipment was presented was very nicely done (complete
> with an OHL tensioner you can touch and play with, but let's not
> revive that thread ;-)), with a decent effort to educate on what
> the various bits of a railway actually do.
>
> Also, there's a pantograph you can raise and lower by pressing a
> button, which kept the child in me amused far longer than it
> should have.
>
>
> Anyway, I took a load of bad snaps with my phone - the intention
> was not to take good photos, rather to be adequate to give a
> feel, for anyone to make up their mind if they think it's
> somewhere they'd be interested in going:
>
> https://imgur.com/a/J4KXxkS
>
>

Nice, the last couple of times I was in Brussels it was shut so I
haven't got to see it. The tram museum is good as well. Almost tempted
to climb on a Eurostar and go.

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Graeme Wall
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