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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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Differdange | Industry and Railway Park Fond-de-Gras |
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erreichbar über / accessible via Differdange-NiedercornPostadresse / postal address1, Place du Marché | L-4576 Pétange Differdange | Luxembourg |
| At first sight the “vallée de la Chiers” looks peaceful, even abandoned. But then an old steam locomotive chugs into sight moving towards a small station. Fond-de-Gras is the name of this hidden-... more >> |
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Diss | Mid-Suffolk Light Railway |
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Brockford Station | IP14 5PW Diss | Great Britain |
| The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway is the only preserved railway operating in Suffolk and dates from the late Victorian period when an Act of Parliament encouraged the construction of light railways in rur... more >> |
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Donetsk | Museum of History and Development of the Donetsk Railway |
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Artemovskaya Street 47 | Donetsk | Ukraine |
| The railway museum in Donetsk opened in 2000, the 130th anniversary of the arrival of the railway in what was to become the largest industrial city in the Ukraine. It occupies the former Uzovo locomot... more >> |
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Downham Market, Norfolk | Denver Sluice |
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Denver | Downham Market, Norfolk | Great Britain |
| Denver Sluice was designed originally in 1651 to bar tidal water from the low fen areas and to improve navigation.
Denver lock is the main navigation structure linking the south Level River system... more >> |
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Dresden | Railway station |
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Wiener Platz 4 | Dresden | Germany |
| The principal railway station in the onetime capital city of Saxony is a building of profound significance in European history. The hauptbahnhof was constructed in 1892-98 to the design of the archite... more >> |
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Dresden | Museum of Transport at Dresden |
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Johanneum am NeumarktAugustusstrasse 1 | 01067 Dresden | Germany |
| Dresden is a city of the first importance in the development of transport within its region. It was the terminus of the first long-distance railway in Germany, which opened to Leipzig in 1839, and pas... more >> |
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Dresden | Saxon Steamboat Company |
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Anlegestelle:Terrassenufer | 01067 Dresden | Germany |
| For more than 170 years visitors to Dresden, he capital city of Saxony, have enjoyed cruises by steamboat on the River Elbe. The steamboat company, Elbdampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft was formed in 1836,... more >> |
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Drobeta Turnu-Severin | Iron Gates Museum |
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Str Independentei 2 | 220160 Drobeta Turnu-Severin | Romania |
| The Iron Gates is the traditional name for the gorge by which the River Danube passes through the Transylvania Alps, where it now forms the boundary between Romania and Serbia. The ‘cataract region... more >> |
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Dromod | Cavan Leitrim Railway |
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Station Road | Dromod | Ireland |
| The Cavan, Leitrim & Roscommon Light Railway & Transport Co was formed in 1883, and in 1887 opened a 54 km long 0.914 m (3 ft) gauge line linking the railway from Dublin to ... more >> |
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Dublin | Grand Canal of Ireland |
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Grand Canal Quay | Dublin | Ireland |
| The Grand Canal is Ireland’s most notable artificial navigation and has the most substantial surviving monuments relating to passenger traffic by water of any canal in Europe. The canal was first pr... more >> |
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Dubrovnic | Maritime Museum |
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Ulica kneza Damjana Jude 2 | 2000 Dubrovnic | Croatia |
| The ancient port of Dubrovnik is one of the most spectacular walled cities in Europe. It was effectively a self-governing city, then known as Ragusa, from 1526 until it was invaded by the armies of Na... more >> |
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Dudley | Black Country Living Museum |
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Tipton Road | DY1 4SQ Dudley | Great Britain |
| Here is an opportunity to step back in time; step on the tram, and take it in to town. Stroll around the shops, watch the children whipping their spinning-tops in the street. Talk to the shopkeepers.... more >> |
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Dudley | Dudley Canal Tunnel and Limestone Mines |
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501 Birmingham New Road | DY1 4SB Dudley | Great Britain |
| There’s no towpath for your horse, and no engine in your boat, so how do you get your narrowboat through the long tunnel into the vast limestone caverns? You have to get out and push! Two men woul... more >> |
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Duisburg | German Inland Waterways Museum |
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Apostelstraße 84 | 47119 Duisburg | Germany |
| Just popping down to the shops is out of the question. The family is much too tied up. The man of the house has several professions: pilot, engineer, sailor, accountant – all at the same time. The s... more >> |
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Duxford | Imperial War Museum Duxford |
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CB22 4QR Duxford | Great Britain |
| Six large halls, one more gigantic than the other: inside, hundreds of veteran aeroplanes, from biplanes via propeller-driven reconnaissance and combat aircraft to jets. Glitteringly restored, they st... more >> |
