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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GB	Gloucester \| National Waterways Museum and Gloucester Dock
	Llanthony WarehouseGloucester Docks \| GL1 2EH Gloucester \| Great Britain
	How do you build a canal? Or a lock? The interactive computer in the Llanthony Warehouse can give you quite a headache? Tons of corn used to be stored here. Now the warehouse building in the Glouceste... more >>

NL	Goes \| Goes-Borsele Steam Train
	Stephensonweg 9 \| 4462 GM Goes \| Netherlands
	The preserved railway based at Goes in Beveland currently extends 7 km south to Hoedekenskerke on the northern shore of the Wester Schelde but there are plans to restore another 4 km of track as far a... more >>

D	Göppingen \| Märklin Museum World of Adventure
	Reutlinger Strasse 2 \| 73037 Göppingen \| Germany
	The Märklin company, perhaps Europe’s best-known manufacturer of model trains, originated in 1859 in Goppingen, 40 km east of Stuttgart, when a tinsmith, Theodore Märklin, began to make dolls’ h... more >>

S	Göteborg \| Indiaman Götheborg III , The Swedish Ship Götheborg
	Eriksberg pir 4 \| 41764 Göteborg \| Sweden
	The Swedish East India Company was founded in 1731, with the intention, following English and Dutch precedents, of trading with China and other countries in the Far East. The company used 38 ships to ... more >>

S	Göteborg \| Maritiman
	Packhuskajen 8 \| 41113 Göteborg \| Sweden
	Maritiman, in the Lilla Bommen area of Goteborg, near to the Opera, is one of Europe’s principal collections of ocean-going ships. The collection totals some 19 vessels. The largest is the destroyer... more >>

S	Göteborg \| Maritime Museum
	Karl Johansgatan 1-3 \| 41459 Göteborg \| Sweden
	The maritime museum in Goteborg was founded in 1913 by the city’s Nautical Society, and presents detailed pictures of many aspects of the relationships between the city and the sea from the seventee... more >>

S	Grimeton \| World Heritage Grimeton
	Radiostationen 72 \| 432 98 Grimeton \| Sweden
	In the age of the cell phone almost every place on earth can be reached within seconds. That said, less than 100 years ago wireless communication demanded gigantic technical equipment. The clearest ex... more >>

NL	Haaksbergen \| Buurt Railway Museum
	Stationstraat 3 \| 7481 JA Haaksbergen \| Netherlands
	The railway between Haaksbergen, 12 km south of Hengelo and Boekelo 6 km to the north was opened as a tourist line in 1967. It enables visitors to see the landscape of the Witteveen, the ‘white peat... more >>

EST	Haapsalu \| Estonian Railway Museum
	Raudtee 2 \| 90504 Haapsalu \| Estonia
	Haapsalu is a resort of wooden villas ornamented with carvings ranged around a cathedral and the imposing ruins of a medieval bishop’s castle, situated on the sandy west coast of Estonia. Railwa... more >>

N	Hamar \| Norwegian National Railway Museum
	Strandveien 163 \| 2316 Hamar \| Norway
	The national railway museum of Norway is located on the shore of Lake Mjosa within a park where several wooden station building have been re-erected, and in which there is a steam-operated narrow gaug... more >>

D	Hamburg \| Museum of Work
	Wiesendamm 3 \| 22305 Hamburg \| Germany
	The telephone, the light bulb, the camera – what we now take for granted was revolutionary around 1900. But technical progress had its price, as can be seen by the spittoon for tuberculosis sufferer... more >>

DK	Helsingor \| Danish Museum of Technology
	Fabriksvej 25-27 \| 3000 Helsingor \| Denmark
	The museum of technology was established by a private trust in Copenhagen and moved to Helsingor in 1966, where it has been located in several premises but is now all on one site in buildings once occ... more >>

FIN	Helsinki \| Tram Museum
	Toolonkatu 51 \| 00250 Helsinki \| Finland
	The first trams in Helsinki were horse-drawn vehicles that began operation in 1891. The system was electrified in 1900, and passed into municipal control in 1945. Tramways form an essential and popula... more >>

FIN	Helsinki \| Cable Factory
	Tallberginkatu 1 \| 00180 Helsinki \| Finland
	The cable factory in Helsinki characterises the changes that took place in industry in Finland, and in other European countries in the course of the 20th century. All cables used in Finland had to be ... more >>

NL	Hengelo \| Museum of Technology HEIM
	Industriestraat 9 \| 7553 CK Hengelo \| Netherlands
	How does a farming hamlet grow into an industrial town? The Educational Industrial Museum in Hengelo will give you the answer. Its theme is the industrial development of the town of Hengelo in the wes... more >>