Next week: "Hello and Hola from Buenos Aires!"

This is my favourite 1920's test track on top of buildings youtube channel.

Hi from a train driver who operate from Liege-Guillemins! I can see the circuit from the train when I ride towards Liege on the railway line 37 (from the curve you can see in the background at 04:40), the one you used to get to Nessonvaux. By the way, the tunnels on that line were excavated in 1841, and are probably among the oldest still in use in the world...

Belgium and "no-one around, nothing seems to be happening" is the longest running gag in history. There are highways with roadwork project signs along the road dating back to the 2000's, lol.

Poke-Your-Camera-Through-The-Gaps-O-Vision is my new favourite method of documentary cinematography. Well done Tim.

Tonight on Tim Gear: Some trees get in the way We learn the history of Belgian car production And Tim uses his finger to demonstrate how cars drove around the test track

The Soundtrack: 1. Jessica - The Original Top Gear Theme 2. The Tim Traveller Theme 3. Tintin theme (this is in Belgium after all) 4. Tomorrow's World theme. 5. The Chain - Fleetwood Mac (Grand Prix theme) 6. Ghost Town - The Specials 7. Wish you Were Here (UK TV Series) theme Utter class as usual. Thanks Tim.

I really hope they keep that old castle-like building as well when redeveloping the property. It looks just too cool to be demolished.

Love the subtle Tintin cartoon-theme in the background as you put the journalist hat on.

Nessonveaux fait partie de la commune de Trooz et a effectivement été une des communes les plus touchées par les inondations. La rénovation du site a été votée en janvier 2024, selon le journal la meuse : La création d’un hall omnisports et d’un musée sur le site Impéria va être réalisée. La façade classée sera conservée, ainsi qu’une partie du circuit sur le toit." Mais le fait d inscrire les travaux dans le budget de la commune ne veut pas dire que les travaux vont forcément débuter cette année. Cela dépendra de l avancement des projets de la même enveloppe budgétaire... et des résultats des élections communales d'octobre 2024. Si la majorité change, les travaux peuvent aussi changer...

The drone footage saved this video else we'd all be wondering what it looks like now. Nice work, TIm!

About the Tintin background reference: in the German translations, Tintin is named Tim. Chapeau!

As a Belgian it makes me proud to learn we were 100 years ahead when the Pieper was introduced. Never heard about this brand until today. Thanks for the video !

The easter eggs in your background music are always appreciated!

In Herstal, near Liège, the factory SAROLEA of motorbikes also tested the motorbikes on their roof.

Once again, Tim has some of the best music of any KZfaqr.

Tim, coming from a Belgian, thank you for being the only living human being able to make Belgium look like a legit tourist destination. :P Don't hesitate if you ever are lacking "original" destinations ideas, I've a few industrial (let's say "peculiar") places to recommand to you. ;)

From the blocks of concrete piled against those doors it looks like someone was expecting Hindenburg and Ludendorff to show up any minute.

Going to Italy this fall and mentioned to my non car loving partner that, IF we are in Turin I'd like to drop in on the racetrack. We now have 5 days booked in Turin lol.

I live in nessonvaux ! Would have loved meeting you there :) great to see my abandonned village on this channel!

The colours covering Liège-Guillemins station are a temporary installation by French artist Daniel Buren which was supposed to be removed in October 2023.

Now we just need to get this man on a flight to Argentina.

You should visit the remnants of the abandoned test track at the old DeLorean factory in Dunmurry, outside of Belfast.

Another Easter Egg: Look at the map at 8:20. Up in the right-hand corner you can spot a bit of the Vennbahn, which was also the subject of a Tim video.

5:43 The _banking_ , blistering barnacles! Proper steep, especially the second bit from this angle. And no seatbelts back then. Formidable.

I live in Liège, and seriously I'm so happy to see someone speaking about the town nicely. And by the way, it's impressive how you say the name of towns (and the station "Guillemins" who's phonetically more a curse than a gift even for french speaking people) without slaughtering it at all. Hat down!

Any day with a new Tim Traveller video is a good day

By the look of it, it's not so much a factory with a test track on it but a a test track that happens to go over a bit of the factory..... The "rooftop" element seems to be rather more a banked curve with some sheds underneath (If i was a guessing man, I'd imagine they were mainly storage....)

Just a note on the Arms Manufacturer. Liege was historically a very important European centre for Firearms manufacture, from small one man enterprises to large conglomerates. It produced everything from cheap Pocket Pistols to elaborate high-end civilian arms to large quantities of military weapons. These days that legacy remains with FN Herstal having their HQ there. They are a large multinational that owns firms like Winchester and, obviously, the famous FN. And it is all owned by the Regional Government of Wallonia.

There is so much quality and effort in this channel, and its views do not match the brilliance in the content.

Love the topgear, bbc f1 and tintin piano easter eggs... On tonight's programmmmm.... Tim rides a Train Tim climbes a hill and Tim peak's through a fence

I love the usage of the Tintin track, seeing as this is an adventure about 1920s Belgium. As well as you doing some investigative journalism.

Tim, have you ever considered doing a video on Brooklands racetrack? There's a lot to see there, including the car, bus and plane museum, with a Concorde, and there's also Mercedes Benz World. But the cool bit is the abandon banked F1 racing circuit, which you can actually walk up.

My first thought at around 5:35 was "This looks like it's made when reaching through a barred gate", nice to get it confirmed later in the video. Also, really impressive work to not just filming through the gate but getting your second hand in there to correctly point at things. Now I'm rather curious as to how it must've looked to anyone passing by with you reaching far inside the gate with both hands 😀

I visited this place last friday, just because of your last video. Looking forward to this one. 😊

wow! I live close and never heard of this place, will visit soon!

Merci pour ce moment. 😊 C’était vraiment très intéressant. Et j’ai beaucoup aimé l’utilisation de la musique de Tintin pour accompagner le journalisme d’investigation en Belgique !

With the "Tintin" soundtrack for the "investiagtive journalism" part ! It was perfect !

Hergé's Adventures of Tim-tim does have quite the catchy theme

Lmao, with that first view you had me like "why doesn't he have a drone?", then at 4:30 "YEAH DRONE'S HERE!" :D

Thank you for keeping these videos the perfect length. And special props to your renditions of "Jessica" and "The Chain". Well done as always!

I love your great content about my silly little country of Belgium (and also your other content to be honest). It is good inspiration for myself too. So thank you very much! ❤

There’s definitely some bits there worth keeping - a great find, Tim. I have a feeling it could still look the same in 10 years!

Always love the quirky, humourous and informative style Tim - the music choices always make me smile too! Nice one! ☺️

What Happened To Belgium's Abandoned Factory Rooftop Track? At last the answer to the question that has been keeping me up at night since the previous video!

After a lifetime of auto related hobbies...I have not heard of these fantastic looking cars, Thanks for the video my friend

Who knew there would be more than one rooftop testing track 👏 loving this little series Tim.

7:24 "and Im here in what should be the middle of a working day. There is no one around, and nothing seems to be happening." Sounds about right for Wallonia 🤭

Two recommendations for one the next videos: 1. Go to Essen in Germany and explore the weird quirks of the local transport system. The Spurbus (Track Bus System on line 146), the very interesting combination of a low-floor meter gauge tram and a high-floor standard gauge Stadtbahn, that in a few places even share stations (and provide some other random things such as abandoned tunnels, platforms with the wrong height like at Rathaus Essen), the Hespertalbahn heritage railway and the Zeche Zollverein, a coal mine that has been turned into a museum. 2. Hamburg: Visit Hamburg and try to find the remains of the abandoned underground line to Rothenburgsort. Go diving at the chalk see in Hemmoor (about 45 mins by train) to see a chalk mine, that has been flooded but left like on the last day of operation, featuring cars, roads and even a underwater railroad crossing

3:55 the largest Lego bricks I have ever seen…

Loved the old-timey piano version of "Ghost Town" - très pertinent!

Another Tim delight - please keep them coming, they're such a joy to watch!

I love how often Fleetwood Mac’s chain just plays in these videos

What a cleverly presented and entertaining video this is, many thanks, and keep up the investigative journalism, you make it all work so well

Thank you for your videos. Besides being interesting, they very much add to our mental well being.

Thank you for this! Also for so many of your videos that have been so informative and sometimes enabled me to tell my husband things he didn't already know.

a beautiful piece of industrial archaeology :)

Dear Tim! Thanks for the great video! INdeed, the floods disrupt here current developments. I assume they pick up the building plans once the floods are forgotten, or alternative flood-proof plans have been proposed.

06:58 This Tow-own! Is coming like a Ghost Town! Well played, sir!

From above the factory looks like a formwr railway works. Absolutely lovely video tim!

I have been years ago. At that time it was easy to enter the testtrack and take pictures. It nice to hear and see that it still exist.

Great video. Thanks, Tim

Fascinating as always!

Next time you come around Liège, let me know, there is so much to see !

And now, Tim is off to Argentina for round 3, so it won't be the last episode at all. Go Tim!

Not me finishing your last video this morning and now you post again! 👌🏾✨

You make me learn more on my country .... thank you!

Very nice to learn about it, thank you. I was there 4 years ago.

Thanks for the part 2!!! 😁

Fantastic video sir.

I wasn't banking on that after your great Lingotto video.......

SO COOL! THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!

Hello, my family (mother side) comes from Nessonvaux. My aunt worked in Imperia as a secretary in the beginning in the years '40. 3:06 : the river is "La Vesdre". 4:01 : The door of the old factory cannot be destroyed and is "protected" to maintain the heritage and the "souvenir". 3 years ago, unfortunatly, the Imperia Museum (NOT located in the old factory and not in Nessonaux but in Fraipont (6 km downstream along the river "Vesdre")) was totally destroyed with big mentionned floodings (all the valley from Verviers to Liège was destroyed).

the specials? ghost town? fitting.

Half the fun of a Tim video is trying to name all the piano tracks used. Nice use of the Tintin cartoon theme tune!

Notice the Top Gear intro in the beginning! Great video once again Tim!

I loved Tintin as a kid and it is just so fun that you have that music.

Interesting to see. I hope whatever happens in the future the section of test track is incorporated into the new development.

great video thanks!

Lovely video bud! Even better music in the beginning, Top Gear was the best haha :)

Utter fascinating. I had absolutely no knowledge of any of this.

Merci Tintin 😄 Quelles aventures! I always love watching your videos, because they are really educative and super interesting. Your great storytelling skills makes any subject fascinating, even when it is about a factory roof top test track which is now a demolition site 😄 I love your reportages and my partner too 😊😊👍🏻👍🏻 I also enjoy playing the game recognise the piano theme 🎶 - Top Gear - This is Formular 1 (BBC) - Les aventures de Tintin - Ghost town What did I miss?

I missed Tim... I take this train every days !!!! Just to go to Welkenraedt.

Amazing how much I have learned about my own country due to your vids!

It's Belgium, it could take another 50 years to start working there. Those new signs might wither away before anything happens. Especially in Wallonie.

Keep Traveling, Tim! And keep sending reports! :D

Bienvenue à la Belgique Tim! Welkom in België Tim! Hopefully some day we’ll see you visit the many other quirks of our wonderful little country 😊

What a fun coincident. FIAT logos @4:18. :) And doesn't the building in the foreground @7:28 look strangely modern?

If you cannot find any more roof top test tracks then perhaps you could widen your scope and include ground level test tracks. Ford have a brilliant facility at Lommel, in Belgium, but it is difficult to get into, big secure fences and big security guards too. Armstrong Siddeley used to have their own test track at Ansty, near Coventry, but it was really an airfield perimeter road with some snazzy car testing extras - although it is now a building site and very likely all ripped up, which is a shame as the foundations for this track utilised debris from the wrecked city of Coventry after it was bombed in WW2. With total confidence I leave it to you to continue this rather wonderful series that you have started.

6:26 "the once-great Belgian car industry".... did not know until this second that Belgium even had a car industry....

Don't sell yourself short, Tim. That is an awesome view of a thing. As long as by "thing" you mean tree. The tree is totally in focus. Maybe try to get a picture in winter?

Thanks for joining my love of history, travel, and motorsport with such an emphasis on the first two. I find a lot of motorsport fans I've met (lol and I'm a former motorcycle track rat and car dragrace pit helper) don't really have a huge interest in the first two, outside of where they concern the last. Yet another banger, as always!

Loved the TinTin-cover in The background!

I was so surprised when you got off the train in Nessonvaux, not Buenos Aires.

again fantastic video, also that you used the tintin theme. I love tintin! thank you for all the great videos you brought us. ❤

As a former, and now reasonably elderly, Danish, Long Distance Walker, I walked a lot in Belgium also, all over Belgium, during mostly 100km walks, last time before the turn of the Century! And to see You walk around gives a lot of good memories. I never heard of this Track as, sadly I also missed the left over German Tiger 2 in La Gleize, though I/we also looked at many sights and Museums in Belgium. Finn. Denmark

The tintin music is such a nice touch to the video

These tracks are just coooooooool. Never knew they existed til recently.

Nice video. Thanks. Greetings from Eddy

Hi from Belgium!