Have you heard the train whistle on Monday evening? If the answer is no, it is because you were not before Trains like no other And it’s a shame because the program offered by Philippe Gougler on France 5 had settled down to survey the rails in Belgium.
The appointment has been full of viewers and the pawn to channels generally much more in sight. Thanks to its program devoted to rail-and its side, France 5 rose on the third step of the audience podium, preceded by a replay of Camping Paradis on TF1 (2.6 million viewers) and Murders in paradise on France 2 (2.3 million). They are still 1.6 million to have chosen to discover Belgium through Rails like no otherwhich constitutes a remarkable audience.
The use of languages in Belgium will always surprise our French neighbors …
On the menu of this issue: the exploration of some of the treasures of the rail of our kingdom such as the tram of the coast (the longest tram in the world!), The railway of the Bocq and its yellow and red car, the Namur stoists, the Belgian humor, the Manneken-Pis and the signal of Botrange culminating at 694 meters of altitude. Sorry, 700 meters if we add the small stone extension built to reach a round figure.
Spontin: we embark with the railway workers of the Bocq valley
The most surprising in this issue was however elsewhere. Philippe Gougler discovered this typical particularity in Belgium: the use of languages. Embarked on a train starting from Wavre (Walloon Brabant) towards Louvain (Leuven, not Louvain-la-Neuve), he was entitled to the announcements in French when the train was in French-speaking territory, and in Flemish when it had crossed the linguistic border.
Of course the completely improbable incident of this unfortunate controller who had launched “Goeiedag, hello” and against whom a complaint was filed because he spoke French in Flemish land was addressed in the company of Alain Gerlache, ex-artbf and media specialist. The latter explained the subtleties of the law on the use of languages in our country. “”So say, it doesn’t laugh, Address the animator of France 5 to a controller. No, not always, She replies with a slightly embarrassed smile. Not sure that the French in front of their posts have not been taking us for crazy since! Or a little more than before. That said, the sequence was funny for the Belgians that we are.
The controversy of the “hello” of a train controller turns to community and political tension
