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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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Holywood | Ulster Folk & Transport Museum |
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Cultra | BT18 0EU Holywood | Great Britain |
| The museum originated as a traditional open air museum following the pattern of Skansen, portraying chiefly the social life of the northern counties of Ireland in the early twentieth century. It was e... more >> |
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Hoorn | Hoorn-Medemblik Steam Tram Museum |
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Van Dedemstraat 8 | 1624 NN Hoorn | Netherlands |
| Some of the steam locomotives look just like outsize toys. Or exactly like Emma, the locomotive in Michael Ende’s fairytale about Jim Knopf and the train driver Lukas. But as soon as smoke begins to... more >> |
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Hyvinkää | Finnish Railway Museum |
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Hyvinkäänkatu 9 | 05800 Hyvinkää | Finland |
| The Finnish railway museum has been located at Hyvinkää since 1974, when some of its collections were moved to a station and a locomotive depot that includes a roundhouse. The exhibition hall that a... more >> |
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Interlaken | Jungfrau Railway |
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Harderstrasse 14 | 3800 Interlaken | Switzerland |
| Narrow gauge railways make it possible for visitors to travel in comfort from the resort of Interlaken in the Bernese Oberland to the highest railway station in Europe at Junfraujoch, 3454 m above sea... more >> |
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Istanbul | Rahmi Koç Industrial Museum |
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Hasköy Caddesi 27 | 3445 Istanbul | Turkey |
| The majority of the industrialist donated Rahmi Koç Museum is an excellent example of how historic industrial buildings a new use can feed. In the former anchor foundry of the Arsenal Hous... more >> |
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Jaworzyna Śląska | Lower Silesian industrial and Railway Museum |
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Towarowa 4 | 58-140 Jaworzyna Śląska | Poland |
| The museum was founded to protect, preserve and safeguard industrial heritage of Lower Silesia. In a former locomotive depot in Jaworzyna Śląska, date back to the end of XIX century. It houses an e... more >> |
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Jenbach | Achensee Railway | Zillertal Railway |
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Bahnhofplatz 1-3 | 6200 Jenbach | Austria |
| Jenbach is a small mountain resort that was formerly the centre for non-ferrous metal mining, on the railway from Kufstein on the German frontier to the Brenner Pass and Italy, where it is joined by t... more >> |
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Jystrup Midtsjaelland | Tramway Museum at Skjoldenaesholm |
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Skjoldenaesvej 107 | 4174 Jystrup Midtsjaelland | Denmark |
| Denmark’s transport museum is run by a voluntary association, the Sporjevshistorisk Selskab,formed in 1965, whose site at Skjoldenaesholm, 20 km south-west of Roskilde has been open to the public si... more >> |
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Kalamata | Kalamata Railway Museum |
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241 00 Kalamata | Greece |
| Kalamata is an important trading city in the southern Peleponnese, and the seat of a bishopric and a university. The railway museum, opened in 1986, occupies the buildings of a former station, which a... more >> |
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Kampen | Gothic House Town Museum |
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158 Oudestraat | 08161 GR Kampen | Netherlands |
| Kampen is a port on the banks of the River Ijssel near to its confluence with the Ijsselmeer (formerly the Zuyder Zee). Its narrow streets, lined with warehouses and merchants’ houses of many period... more >> |
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Kangasala | Vehoniemen Car Museum | Mobilia Automobile and Road Museum |
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Kustaa Kolmannen tie 75 | 36270 Kangasala | Finland |
| Kangasala is a town with a population of about 17,000 in western Finland, 20 km from Tampere, in an area of spectacular scenery commemorated in the poem ‘Summer Day in Kangasala’ written in ... more >> |
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Karlskrona | Naval Museum |
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Stumholmen | 37132 Karlskrona | Sweden |
| Karlskrona, on the south coast of Sweden, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998 as ‘an exceptionally well-preserved example of a European naval base’. The city was founded in 1680 wh... more >> |
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Kidderminster | Severn Valley Railway |
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Comberton Hill | DY10 1QX Kidderminster | Great Britain |
| This journey into the industrial past is a good 25 km long and leads through the heart of England. The Severn Valley Railway operates almost throughout the year with a huge variety of historic steam t... more >> |
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Köln | River Rhine |
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Frankenwerft 35 | 50667 Köln | Germany |
| The River Rhine has been the most important European trade artery during the industrial period. It is now a commercial navigation between Rotterdam and Basle. Its course through the Netherlands has be... more >> |
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Kopřivnice | Tatra Technical Museum |
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Záhumenni 367/1 | 74221 Kopřivnice | Czech Republic |
| Kopřivnice in eastern Moravia is the site of the Tatra works, founded in Ignác Šustala (1822-81), which progressed from making horse-drawn coaches, to building railway wagons and coaches from 1881,... more >> |
