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The increase in frequencies, new stations and a strong publicity campaign three years ago seem to have done the trick: 44% more people are using the S suburban network of trains than in 2015.
In 2014, France paid €50 million to victims who had been transported to death camps by SNCF trains during the Holocaust.
The SNCB is considering legal action after aerial photos of the 2010 Buizingen railway disaster were used in a Netflix horror movie.
Federal mobility minister Francois Bellot has invited executives from rail authority SNCB to a round table discussion on how it might improve services.
Belgium's federal transport minister, François Bellot, has said he will not allow the SNCB to go ahead with a plan to ban non-folding bicycles from rush-hour trains.
Non-folding bicycles will be banned from rush-hour trains in Belgium from next February, in a move that has disappointed cyclists' associations.
Police in Liège have arrested 20 people suspected of belonging to an organised gang of copper thieves who are stealing cables from Belgian railway lines.
The SNCB has come up with a new way of informing passengers about possible delays - by plotting every train in Belgium on a live map.
Rail commuters in Liège, Charleroi, Antwerp and Ghent can expect some changes to their journey from 3 September as Belgian rail operator SNCB extends its suburban "S-Train" concept to the four cit