golden view

Belgium (F/D/L) - 2018


A trip through Belgium mainly, but also with short sidesteps to Germany, France and Luxembourg. We visited some abandoned industrial places, some historical sites, mines and so on. The journey will be described in reversed order, beginning in Calais and ending in Germany.

blue eye

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cooling tower preview (Belgium) - more will come later for sure part of the abandoned "Power Plant IM" in Charleroi

Cooling Tower IM - the fisheye view

Cooling Tower IM

new life

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cooling tower IM - see PiP! For size comparison see the entrance door in the PiP, at the end of the left "corridor".

Cooling Tower IM - funnel view

Cooling Tower IM - funnel view

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I held the camera down with the extended tripod from the upper level, which you can see in the upper right corner of the image ;-)

Cooling Tower IM - looking down

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It was quite difficult to get images from the lower space. Either you climb along the bottom through mud and water, which we not did, or you extend the tripod as far as possible and hold it down as far as possible. Car tires in the water for size comparison.

underneath

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power plant IM - "basement" of the cooling tower

Power Plant IM

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Last image of the "Power Plant IM"-series. Some inventory of the old control room can be found elsewhere now and a few detail images will follow. Just returned from short holidays on El Hierro, so I couldn't visit your images during the last days. Hope I can catch up soon. Have a great sunday ;-)

Power Plant IM - controls

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Parts of the control room of Power Plant IM, now standing in an old industrial building, used by a collective of artists. - See PiP's!

Power Plant IM - controls

Power Plant IM - controls

Charleroi - Ghost Metro

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Chet Metro Station at the never finished and operating Châtelet branch of Charleroi's subway system, as the expected passenger numbers were too low to pay for the extra staff and rolling stock.

Charleroi - Ghost Metro

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Chet Metro Station at the never finished and operating Châtelet branch of Charleroi's subway system, as the expected passenger numbers were too low to pay for the extra staff and rolling stock.

Bouzebel

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Charleroi - Ghost Metro

Charleroi - Ghost Metro

dark

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Charleroi - Ghost Metro

Charleroi - Ghost Metro

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A rainy day at Chet Metro Station. The Châtelet branch of Charleroi's subway system was never finished and operating, as the expected passenger numbers were too low to pay for the extra staff and rolling stock. It's now abandoned.

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