Coming from Haccourt we drive into Bassenge by the Rue Neuve.
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Further in Bassenge there is this viaduct across the line at the Rue de Chemin de fer.
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Viaduct across the Route Provinciale.
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Viaduct across the Route Provinciale with view on the west portal of the Glonstunnel.
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The west portal of the 146 meter long Glonstunnel, which was built under a middel-age tower from the 12th century, surrounded by a cemetary, which is a rijksmonument .
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Vieille tour hameau De Brus ( 8 Juni 2008 )
Viaduct Rue de la Station.
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Vista to the Rue Oborne.
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Since WW I in Glons the lines 24 and 34 crossed by fly-over, without any connection between both lines (stations Glons-Haut and Glons-Bas).
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In 1973 a arched connection was built between the higher line 24 and the lower line 34, after that the junction Tongeren - Nerem - Glons of line 34 was put out of use and cleared away.
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The old stationhouse is no longer in use by the railway, but inhabited privatly.
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The old stationhouse from the trackside.
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Glons station in the old days.
From zhe collection of Guy Demeulder.
For more old postcards see : Les gares belges d'autrefois
The entrance to the platform from the streetside.
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The section Glons - Liers was reduced to singletrack before the elektrification in 1982. The maximum speed until Liège is 90 kmh. The left track is no longer in use.
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View on the church in Nerem (Nederheem), which is directly situated behind the arched viaduct.
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The viaduct exists out of five arches, from which the two outmost were closed off and are overgrown by bushes. At this viaduct for a short time after 1982 was a sideway stop with the name Nerem-Vreren.
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Under the middle arch flows a litlle stream the "Buth", a sidebrench of the river Geer or Jeker.
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The railway passes along the churchyard.
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The Nerem cemetery : on the line above a locomotiv is passing.
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H.J.Vos
2002/2008
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