Brussel is the main city of Belgium, situated in the middle of the country. Today there are aboutn 200.000 inhabitants, the same amount as around the year 1880. In the agglomeration of Brussel, consisting of 19 communities, there live today around 1,2 million inhabitants

Brussel was the first town in Belgium where a horse tram was opened. Already in 1869 a short line from the Naamsepoort to the Ter Kamerenbos was opened. Later on the Tramways Bruxellois (TB) opened five tram lines and also another company, the Société Générale de Tramways (CFE), opened some more lines. The lines were laid on normal gauge (1435 mm).

In 1899 the TB started to change its lines to electric trams. Other lines remained in use as horse tram until the outbreak of the First World War. Brussel is one of the cities in Belgium were todays there is a large network of tram lines.

In Brussel there was also a network of lines of the NMVB. As the track width was different (TB: 1435 mm, NMVB: 1000 mm), the lines operated separately. For details of the NMVB lines, see the detail pages of the NMVB in the province of Brabant.

The evolution of the tram network in the city of Brussel is too large to be described on this page. To read much more, you can visit the page of the Brusselse tram on Wikipedia.