Stoomtrein Dendermonde-Puurs, Heritage railway in Dendermonde, Belgium
The Stoomtrein Dendermonde-Puurs is a heritage railway operating on a 14-kilometer line through countryside between two Belgian towns. The organization maintains steam locomotives, diesel engines, and vintage passenger cars representing different eras of Belgian rail transport.
The organization formed in 1977 with the goal of preserving railway heritage and gained permission to run tourist services on this line in 1985. Since then the association has rescued historic equipment from scrap and kept it in operational condition.
The railway demonstrates how train travel once looked and how central it was to Belgian life. Visitors experience how steam engines and vintage cars operated in daily use and what journeys meant to people.
Trains generally run on Sundays from July through September, though specific dates and routes may vary by season. During off-season months, volunteers maintain the tracks and equipment at repair facilities.
The association's repair workshops in Baasrode are working spaces where volunteers and technicians restore and rebuild steam engines by hand. This hands-on restoration work reveals the mechanical complexity of historic locomotives that most passengers never see.
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