Комментарии к фотографиям из города Брюссель

Брюссельская Пуща™! А рельсы-то какие ровные, несмотря на зум.

Done, and as bonus: https://goo.gl/maps/SFVuc6Rpwd7Qzoce6

Thanks for your description. Is it possible to pinpoint the location on the map?

In 1977, the trams were already equipped with bus indications, and it was known that this line did not have a long life ahead of it: it was finally to be closed down on 31 July 1978.
That it was (together with the route to Wemmel) the last remaining one, is no coincidence and this can be seen in the photo: the 3 trailers and accompanying conductors were really not used to transport air, although the photo - without passengers or staff - suggests otherwise.
Only passengers with a season ticket were allowed to board the motor car: the sign '1 agent' indicates this.
It was probably ready to depart for Brussels, to bring the passengers back home in the late afternoon.
In any case, a beautiful postcard!

Route AL\ (N.M.V.B.) was closed the 26/06/1970.
The city tram (M.I.V.B.) continued to use the normal gauge tracks; the meter gauge track (1) was only removed later - on some place only + 10 years later.

До какого года там существовали две нити колеи?

Продавец рубашек и галстуков Дезире.

Ответ на ваш вопрос гуглится менее чем за 0,5 минуты
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%...B%D1%8F
> В 19 коммунах, образующих аггломерацию современного города-региона Брюссель-столица (Брюссельский столичный округ) площадью 161,38 км² официально признано равноправие двух языков. Ими признаны французский и нидерландский.

Почему названия остановок помимо на французском, дублируют ещё и на нидерландском?!

If only 1% of the existing historical photos were shared here, Transphoto would undoubtedly be the best documented site on the internet.
We should therefore be grateful to the author for sharing (a part of) his collection. Most don't do it, keep it for themselves and later the valuable photos disappear into the darkness.
I know some photographers, who protect their photos like the gold of Fort Knox. In the best case, you might see a photo of them in a publication. Everything else is considered as a big secret...

A unique series of old photos. Many thanks for your input.

The situation is now at least as complicated: part of the complex is underground. https://transphoto.org/photo/1265612/?gid=4856 (search "Bara").
In 1964, underground tramway work did not yet exist: a few short tunnels, like this one, had been built in 1958, but actually without any stations.
The complexity has remained about the same: trams have to leave in different directions. There were also many more tram lines then than now, and an added bonus: this complex was built on the occasion of the 1958 World Expo.
https://transphoto.org/photo/1094758/?gid=4856
Now, just 2 tracks exists. https://goo.gl/maps/Xqketw6jtTYf2Vse6
Just 1 route (81) is coming here, many other routes runs underground.

Отчего здесь столько путей?

In Brussels, 2 networks existed.
STIB/MIVB 1435 mm and still exists.
NMVB/SNCV 1000 mm closed 31/07/1978.
The NMVB/SNCV had tramlines in the whole country, only in Charleroi a couple of kilometers of the original network exists. And of course, the Kusttram between Knokke and De Panne.
During WW II direct services were organized between Brussels and Liege, transfers of trams over 150 km... it was a very big network.

> the Brussels tram network maintained the use of the trolleys until its closure in July 1978

The Brussels tram network had been once closed in 1978 and then once restored? Or what did you mean with "its closure"? Or maybe there were two separate networks in Brussels?

Цитата:
>> A l'occasion des 50 ans de la suppression des Trolleybus qui exploitaient la ligne 54 et du remplacement de ceux-ci par des autobus, le dernier exemplaire a circulé ce lundi de Pentecôte dans la rue de la Régence et la rue Royale.

„По случаю пятидесятилетия с момента закрытия троллейбусного движения по маршруту 54 и замены такового автобусным последний экземпляр курсировал в понедельник святого духа по улицам Режанс и Рояль.“

Thanks

22 till 09/2022.
21 more for later, when is not know at this moment.

How many M7 trains have beeen ordered in total?

Quote (Volodya, 2.28.2021):
> Quote (Alexander Kozlov, 02/28/2021):
> > in principle, there may be a reason to call on separate paths?
>
> I would single out three groups of probable reasons:
> Driver error in determining where he should go (not like).
> Unexpected appearance of an obstacle on the road.
> Malfunction of the car (steering wheel, suspension, brakes) or the driver (fell asleep, lost consciousness).
> The third point may well follow from the second point. We just got used to those who put themselves above everyone else and go around the traffic jam on tram tracks. Only here in the photo there are no these "everyone else". Although, in Brussels there is a nuance - traffic jams there can last 1 hour because everyone has the same time to work.

The reason here was arrogance. Perhaps giving priority and waiting is something for 'others'. The tram route was the shortest route for the driver: with it, he did not have to wait at a traffic light.
A little further on, he could then either turn into the next street, or just quietly drive onto the main road.
And what Sergei wrote is unfortunately correct, at least as far as Brussels is concerned.