Belgian Railway Stamps

Here's my toughie for tonite:

Tried to put this on the previous post, but no luck.

This is the only think I could find:






This is in the Charleroi district, and the closest railroad is to the E/SE about a mile or so.

Cursory Research, Tony.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoorlijn_121



Tough finding a map.
Industrial Lines (out of order =broken up, I assume)
http://www.wikiwand.com/fr/Liste_de..._de_Belgique

See Ransart - Masses-Diarbois. #256

To ask an intelligent question, a researcher has to know three-quarters of the answer. Obviously, I'm not nearly there yet. My first foray into these stamps was December 14th, so I'm not unhappy with my progress, by any means. I get that you have railway route lists, and I'll figure out where they hide on the Web and bookmark the appropriate sites.

What I don't understand is how you knew to look at the route you found the station on. That line was torn up 33 years ago. Is there a search tool or other asset that links station names to a specific railroad route? I've seen a few route station lists on Wikipedia, but those were more luck than anything else, and weren't always what I was looking for.

the answer....

Tony, you are doing just fine.
I am just a newbie, as well, First requirement, is curiosity, which we both share.
The rest is searching ability.
Perf 12 is an advanced fellow in this discipline, so is 22 crows, and others.

I merely typed in "masses Diarbois Rail" in my search engine, and up popped the options, "translate this page" followed.

Experiment with Text strings "Belgian railway maps" etc, and all sorts of goodies are served up.
Generally speaking the more accurate, and quantity of relevance you type in the text string, the better the response.

By the way, further to Chasa's response, have you noticed the date of your parcel strike ?

1535 I was wondering if this is a date slug error, or otherwise.........

I was thinking it should have been 1935.

Rod that is 3pm December 4, 1935

Right! Thanks Chasa,
was staring me in the face, but completely flew over the head.
So your example was 7pm
I have learnt something here.

Here's where the postmark was most likely applied:

Robert

Wow! nice pic there Robert, thanks a bunch.

Any members know if/how I can get / listen to a pronounciation of Masses-Diarbois please?
I am assuming "Mass-dubwa"

What or where, does the NORD-BELGE postmark indicate? AFAIK there is no town/city named North Belgium. I've seen this one with TILLEUR on the bottom third of the postmark; there are others I've seen, but can't remember.

Try Google Translate. It has an audio feature.

Robert

Perhaps this:


"The Compagnie du Nord - Belge was the Belgian administrative branch of the great French railway company Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Nord, which from 1854 operated various Belgian railways in Wallonia."
Robert

Here are 3 examples of why I'm asking about Nord-Belge. If it isn't a specific location, is it the modern line that runs the line that Robert referenced? That would indicate why different locations are listed on the lower portion of the CXL. However, that would appear to be a different system/method than any other I've seen so far, with a city on top, and a sub-location or alternate spelling below.


Nord-Belge appears to be a rather common CXL.

Tony