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The tracks of the Industrial Revolution. European Theme Route Transport
During the early years of the Industrial Revolution there was a radical change in transportation. The arrival of pounding steamships and steam locomotives gave a huge boost to industrialisation. The change began on the canals which, for centuries, had proved to be the best means of transporting goods. In 1761, the Bridgewater canal was completed in one of the birthplaces of the industrial age, the British textile area Lancashire; from then on, the route supplied the booming city of Manchester with coal.
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Bangor | Holyhead Road | Menai Suspension Bridge |
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A 5 | LL57 2 Bangor | Great Britain |
| The road between London and Holyhead, the packet port for Dublin on the island of Anglesey in north Wales, was improved on an heroic scale between 1815 and 1840, under the direction of a commission es... more >> |
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Barrow-in-Furness | Dock Museum |
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North Road | LA14 2PW Barrow-in-Furness | Great Britain |
| The Dock Museum is a striking modern building on a scenic channelside site. Built over an historic graving dock, the museum is home to a wealth of objects and information on the social and industrial ... more >> |
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Bastia | Corsica Railway |
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BP 170 | 20294 Bastia | France |
| Corsica belonged to Genoa until the Treaty of Versailles of 1748 under which it was transferred to the French crown. It is celebrated as the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821).
The islan... more >> |
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Beamish | Beamish Museum |
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DH9 0RG Beamish | Great Britain |
| Beamish, once called the North of England Open Air Museum and now ‘the living museum of the north’, occupies a site of more than 100 ha 14 km north-west of Durham City. It was established in the 1... more >> |
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Beaulieu | The National Motor Museum |
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Brockenhurst | SO42 7ZN Beaulieu | Great Britain |
| There are many motor museums in Great Britain, one of the largest of which is at Beaulieu on the edge of the New Forest west of Southampton. It was founded in 1952 by Lord Montagu, whose ancestral hom... more >> |
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Benndorf | The Mansfeld Works Railway Line |
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Hauptstraße 15 | 06308 Benndorf | Germany |
| Broad, undulating fields and rows of fruit trees line the stretch of the oldest narrow-gauge railway in Germany. At the front of the train is one of the original Mansfeld steam engines. Clattering beh... more >> |
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Bergen | Hanseatic Museum |
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Finnegardsgaten 1a | 5003 Bergen | Norway |
| The Tysksebryggen (German quay) at Bergen, the principal port of western Norway, was for centuries one of the principal places of exchange between northern and southern Europe. The port’s prosperity... more >> |
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Berlin | German Technical Museum |
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Trebbiner Strasse 9 | 10963 Berlin | Germany |
| The German Technical Museum holds one of the largest collections of its kind in Europe, but dates only from 1982. It was initially a museum of railways, and is based at the former Anhalter Bahnhof, on... more >> |
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Berlin | Museum of Communications |
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Leipziger Strasse 16 | 10117 Berlin | Germany |
| The museum of communications in Berlin claims to be Europe’s oldest postal museum. The collection was established in 1872 by the postmaster of imperial Germany, Heinrich von Stephan (1831-97), who, ... more >> |
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Bern | Communications Museum |
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Helvetiastrasse 16 | 3000 Bern | Switzerland |
| The Communications Museum has wide-ranging displays that illustrate most of the ways in which people have exchanged ideas, from body language to the Internet, with the emphasis on people’s experienc... more >> |
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Birkenhead | Birkenhead Tramway & Wirral Transport Museum |
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1 Taylor Street | CH41 1BG Birkenhead | Great Britain |
| Birkenhead is the historic home of the first street tramway in Europe. It was here on August 29 1860 that Europe´s first tramway was established, running from Woodside to Birkenhead Park. This early ... more >> |
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Bochum | Railway Museum Bochum-Dahlhausen |
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Dr.-C.-Otto-Straße 191 | 44879 Bochum | Germany |
| Dozens of children’s’ dreams are simultaneously fulfilled here. For example when the eyes of large and small railway fans light up as they climb into the driver’s cab of a steaming locomotive to... more >> |
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Bodø | Norwegian Aviation Museum |
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Olav 5 gate | 8004 Bodø | Norway |
| Bodø is a city of almost 50,000 people, the capital of Nordland, located just north of the Arctic Circle, and at the northern terminus of the Norwegian railway system. It was a place of great strateg... more >> |
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Brecon | Brecon Canal Basin |
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Rich Way | LD3 7 Brecon | Great Britain |
| The basin forms the terminus of the 56km Monmouthshire and Brecon canal, one of the most beautiful in Britain. Historically this was the gathering and distribution centre of a range of industrial and ... more >> |
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Bremerhaven | German Maritime Museum |
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Hans Scharoun Platz 1 | 27568 Bremerhaven | Germany |
| The Hanseatic city of Bremen at the mouth of the River Weser was one of Europe’s principal ports for many centuries, but its harbour could not accommodate vessels that drew more than 2 m, and in 182... more >> |
