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The Museum of Belgian Railways is established within Brussels-North train station. It recounts the history of Belgian railways. The locomotion Pays de Waes (Country of Waes), constructed in 1845, is surrounded by scale models and photographs of different vehicles, marking devices, railway tracks and points, as well as Coupes explaining the functioning of stream traction. The room on the floor above is only accessible every first Saturday of each month. It shows scale models of train stations and old lithographs and pictures giving an overview of railway life of past and present times. Let's not forget that it is in Belgium that the steam train ran for the first time on the Continent (1835)!

The future train museum Train World will open its doors in 2014 near Schaerbeek Station. The new 8,000 m2 building will stand next to the station’s historic concourse dating from 1913, which will host part of the permanent exhibition and temporary exhibitions. It will pay tribute to the rich history of the train in Belgium: the first railway line in continental Europe was opened in 1835 between Mechelen and Brussels, the world’s first capital city to be served by train. The museum is also a unique marketing tool for the Belgian railways. Schaerbeek-based designer François Schuiten has devised the displays for the future museum together with the company Expoduo. ‘We will try to bring the machinery alive at Train World (…) and to make this place as magical as possible,’ he has commented. The SNCB/NBMS Group has invested 20.5 million euros in the project, and hopes to attract 100,000 visitors per year from its third year of operations onwards.

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