Ateliers de construction de La Meuse

During the period from 1888 to 1958, La Meuse built 1350 steam locomotives some for Belgian State Railways (later NMBS/SNCB), and many more for industrial networks.

During 1835 Charles Marcellis, forge master, moved his business to La Boverie, Liège.

The company was set up as Société Anonyme des Ateliers de la Meuse.

These new workshops were erected on the site they currently occupy between the Meuse river and the Paris-Namur-Liége-Cologne rail line.

Their customers were mostly Belgium, but also Italy, Yugoslavia, Morocco, Congo, Romania, Turkey, Spain, Latin America and the Netherlands.