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I added a company box for the NMBS/SNCB to the text with some financial date retrieved from the anual report. Based on the data in the report, I also changed the sentence that passenger transport in Belgium is profitable to the the NMBS is subsidised, because that is simply (at this moment) not profitable. The passenger devision of the group reported, even with almost €800 milion in government subsidies, an operating loss of €64 milion and an net loss of €80 milion over 2005.
Crownsteler 18:58, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand, why it's called NMBS/SNCB. On the official website, english version, I just see SNCB and not NMBS/SNCB. Furthermore, on the new SNCB Europe website, it is also called SNCB. Same goes for the website of Eurostar and Thalys ( see sources below ). So looks like the name use in English is SNCB. I suggest therefore, to change the name to SNCB.
http://www.b-europe.com/Travel
http://www.eurostar.com/UK/us/leisure/travel_information/before_you_go/railteam.jsp
http://www.thalys.com/be/en/about-thalys/corporate —Preceding unsigned comment added by Le Liegeois ( talk • contribs) 14:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
yes exactly, the name used by the company in foreign languages like English and even German is quite inconsistent. I've also read news articles where just the Flemish name was used. Clearly an expat living in Antwerp will also refer to the company as just NMBS and not SNCB. Furthermore, I doubt that most Flemish speakers would even know that SNCB is the translation of NMBS in French, and vice versa. So as to not offend anyone, i suggest the official abbreviation NMBS/SNCB is used throughout the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.235.159.178 ( talk) 23:01, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone actually call it "National Belgian Railway Company" or "National Railway Company of Belgium", or is that just a slightly painful way of trying to get around the fact that English speakers with no interest in Belgian language politics call it SNCB (cf English speakers using the German name for SBB rather than French or Italian options), and some Dutch-speaking Belgians might not like this so want us to use something else instead? Wheeltapper ( talk) 11:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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I added a company box for the NMBS/SNCB to the text with some financial date retrieved from the anual report. Based on the data in the report, I also changed the sentence that passenger transport in Belgium is profitable to the the NMBS is subsidised, because that is simply (at this moment) not profitable. The passenger devision of the group reported, even with almost €800 milion in government subsidies, an operating loss of €64 milion and an net loss of €80 milion over 2005.
Crownsteler 18:58, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand, why it's called NMBS/SNCB. On the official website, english version, I just see SNCB and not NMBS/SNCB. Furthermore, on the new SNCB Europe website, it is also called SNCB. Same goes for the website of Eurostar and Thalys ( see sources below ). So looks like the name use in English is SNCB. I suggest therefore, to change the name to SNCB.
http://www.b-europe.com/Travel
http://www.eurostar.com/UK/us/leisure/travel_information/before_you_go/railteam.jsp
http://www.thalys.com/be/en/about-thalys/corporate —Preceding unsigned comment added by Le Liegeois ( talk • contribs) 14:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
yes exactly, the name used by the company in foreign languages like English and even German is quite inconsistent. I've also read news articles where just the Flemish name was used. Clearly an expat living in Antwerp will also refer to the company as just NMBS and not SNCB. Furthermore, I doubt that most Flemish speakers would even know that SNCB is the translation of NMBS in French, and vice versa. So as to not offend anyone, i suggest the official abbreviation NMBS/SNCB is used throughout the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.235.159.178 ( talk) 23:01, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
Does anyone actually call it "National Belgian Railway Company" or "National Railway Company of Belgium", or is that just a slightly painful way of trying to get around the fact that English speakers with no interest in Belgian language politics call it SNCB (cf English speakers using the German name for SBB rather than French or Italian options), and some Dutch-speaking Belgians might not like this so want us to use something else instead? Wheeltapper ( talk) 11:14, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
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