De Panne is a small city with (today) about 14.000 inhabitants (only 1500 inhabitants around the year 1900). It is situated in the province of West-Vlaanderen, at the most nort eastern side of the coastal line of Belgium, just near the border with the Netherlands.

From 1894 on there was an omnibus service (bus with horses riding over the road) from the railway station of Adinkerke to the beach. It was operated by a local hotel manager. On 1901-07-14 this service was replaced by a hors tram. The track witdh was only 600 mm (very narrow). During the First World War it was temporarily replaced by a service with a tractor with a petrol motor (hay for the horses was too expensive, horses were required by the army). In 1918 the horses came back, but in 1920 a steam locomtive was acquired and the horse tram ended. The line remained in operation by steam tram and a tractor until 1932, from which the NMVB operated the linea with electric trams.

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