TEC Hainaut 3634 (NED 119) in Tournai - 17 Sep 1997

Wednesday 17 September 1997 – TEC Hainaut 3634 (NED 119), a MAN engined Van Hool A500 integral new in January 1994, seen outside the railway station in Tournai working city bus service W.

TEC (Transport En Commune) is the trading title of the Walloon Regional Transport Company (Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport). The company was created in 1991 when it took over the responsibility for the bus and tram operations in southern Belgium that had previously been operated by Belgium’s national bus and tramway company (SNCV/NMVB).

In addition to operating its own bus fleet (and trams around the Charleroi area) there are also buses operated by contractors to TEC. Vehicles in its own fleet carry four digit fleet numbers with those of contractors carrying six digit fleet numbers – the first four digits relate to the TEC contract number with the final two digits indicating the fleet number of the particular operator.