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ERIH Board meeting in Katowice/Poland
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Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
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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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Market Harborough | Foxton Inclined Plane and Lock Staircase |
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Foxton | LE16 7RA Market Harborough | Great Britain |
| Foxton Locks A unique patchwork of 18th, 19th and 20th century industrial heritage unmatched anywhere in the world, Foxton is most famous for the ruins of the Incline Plane Boat Lift, and the bre... more >> |
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Marseillan | Canal du Midi |
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Chemin du Canal du Midi | 34340 Marseillan | France |
| The building of the Canal du Midi, linking the Garonne navigation at Toulouse (and therefore the Atlantic Ocean) with the Mediterranean at Sete demonstrated to the whole of Europe the possibilities of... more >> |
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Middlesbrough | Transporter Bridge |
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Ferry Road | TS2 1PL Middlesbrough | Great Britain |
| Middlesbrough, on the south bank of the River Tees about 9 km from its mouth, is one of the classic new towns of the industrial revolution. It developed from the 1820s as a port for the despatch by se... more >> |
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Milton Keynes | National Museum of Computing |
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Bletchley Park | MK3 6EB Milton Keynes | Great Britain |
| Few centres of wartime activity have had as much influence on the long term development of industry as Bletchley Park, a mansion adjacent to a railway junction, 60 miles north of London and now within... more >> |
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Minden | Canal Aqueduct |
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Bauhofstraße | 32425 Minden | Germany |
| The Mittelland Canal, the strategic link between Berlin and the Ruhrgebiet, was authorised in 1905 and crosses the River Weser at Minden. It was part of a comprehensive programme of waterways developm... more >> |
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Mlada Boleslav | Skoda Auto Museum |
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Vaclava Klementa 294 | 293-60 Mlada Boleslav | Czech Republic |
| The Skoda factory in Mlada Boleslav, 72 km N of Prague, traces it origins from 1895 when Vlaclav Laurin and Vlaclav Klement began to manufacture bicycles, soon progressing to motor cycles, and in 1905... more >> |
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Monaco | Monaco Top Cars Collection |
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Les Terrasses de Fontvieille | 9800 Monaco | Monaco |
| This is a display of about 100 vehicles collected by HSR Prince Rainier III of Monaco, and visitors are reminded by the voice of HSH Prince Albert at the entrance that it is a private collection that ... more >> |
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Mostar | Old Bridge Museum |
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Halebiya | Mostar | Bosnia and Hercegovina |
| The ancient city of Mostar is the capital of Hercegovina. It was part of the Ottoman Empire between 1468 until 1878 when it came under the rule of the Habsburgs, and subsequently belonged to Yugoslavi... more >> |
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Motala | Gotha Canal Museum |
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Varusgatan Dockanomradent | Motala | Sweden |
| The Gotha Canal forms part of a 558-km waterway that links Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden with Stockholm on the Baltic. It was built between 1810 and 1832 through the energy of Count Baltzar v... more >> |
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Mulhouse | Cité du Train. French Railway Museum |
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2 rue Alfred de Glehn | 68200 Mulhouse | France |
| There are more than 100 locomotives in the French Railway Museum, which is located to the north of the city in purpose-designed buildings of 1976, which have been subsequently enlarged. The collection... more >> |
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Mulhouse | Cite de l’Automobile | Motor car museum |
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192 Avenue de ColmarBP 1096 | 68051 Mulhouse | France |
| The collection displayed in the Cite de l’Automobile now belongs to the French nation and is regard as being to motorcars what the Louvre is to art. It has curious origins.
The Swiss brothers Ha... more >> |
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München | Deutsches Museum |
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Museumsinsel 1 | 80538 München | Germany |
| The Deutsches Museum von Meisterwerken der Naturwissenschaft und Technik (German Museum of the Masterpieces of Natural Science and Technology) holds one of the world’s most important collections of ... more >> |
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München | Deutsches Museum (Transport Centre) |
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Theresienhöhe 14a | 80339 München | Germany |
| The Deutsches Museum’s collections of railway and road vehicles were removed in 2003 to a former exhibition hall in the Theresienhöhe area of Munich.
The collection of motor cars is one of the ... more >> |
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Mylau | Götzsch Valley Railway Bridge |
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Brückenstraße | 08499 Mylau | Germany |
| Göltzsch Valley Bridge
The 574 metre long Göltzsch valley bridge took five years to build, and when it was completed in 1851 the 78 metre high viaduct was the highest railway bridge in the world. I... more >> |
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Napoli | National Railway Museum |
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Via Pietrarsa | 80146 Napoli | Italy |
| The National Railway Museum is located in the former engineering works of the railway system of the kingdom of Naples, which had links to the armaments works at Torre Annunziata. About 1840 the gunpow... more >> |
