Railway line Tilburg - Turnhout

The Bels Lijntje was a railway line between Tilburg and Turnhout and this route formed the Dutch part of Railway line 29. Since 1990, the Bels Lijntje has been a cycle path.

Until 1865, the entire area between Turnhout and Baarle-Nassau was dominated by vast heathlands. In that year, construction of the railway line between Turnhout and Tilburg was started and the Weelde-Merksplas station (south of the Steenweg op Zondereigen) was built. The railway line was constructed and operated by the "Grand Central Belge", which is why the railway line was popularly called the "Bels lijntje" in the (North Brabant) vernacular.

In 2009, a lookout tower was placed at the Kleine Klotteraard-Oost fen. This tower, 13 meters high, was built as part of the Nature Development Project Turnhouts Vennengebied-West, in a collaboration between the Agency for Nature and Forests and the Flemish Land Agency. In 2013, reports appeared in the media that Dutch and Belgian municipalities were discussing the possibility of widening the Bels Lijntje, because the cycle path was said to be too narrow for oncoming groups of cyclists.

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Hapee

April 26, 2021

Beautiful road through nature from Tilburg to Turnhout. Old stations along the cycle path.

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peter liekens

June 4, 2020

Pleasant part of the real bike path that goes a long way in the Netherlands.

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Distance 10.9 km

Uphill 10 m

Downhill 10 m

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Location: Ravels, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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Dessel–Turnhout–Schoten Canal

Wetlands

Klein Engelandhoeve

Kasteel in het centrum van Turnhout

Boones Blijk Bleachery and Pond

Zandweg met optie verhard fietspad

Poort van Baarle

Bird Observation Screen in Turnhouts Vennengebied Nature Reserve

Reth: fietspad onder randweg Baarle-Nassau

Footbridge Over the Dessel-Schoten Canal

Bels Lijntje

Former Baarle-Nassau Border Station

Bels Lijntje Cycle Path

1. Bels Lijntje – Bels Lijntje loop from Turnhout

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