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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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Échillais | Rochefort Transporter Bridge |
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Rue de Transbordeur | 17300 Échillais | France |
| The transporter bridge linking Rochefort and Martrou across the River Charente in the commune of Échillais in south-west France is one of only 12 of its kind that remain in use. It was designed by Fe... more >> |
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Ellesmere Port | Ellesmere Port |
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South Pier Road | CH65 4FW Ellesmere Port | Great Britain |
| This unique, award winning museum is set in over 7 acres of historic canal port and is home to the world’s largest floating collection of inland waterway craft.
Set in the old dock complex overlo... more >> |
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Enkhuizen | Zuiderzeemuseum |
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Wierdijk 12-22 | 1600 AA Enkhuizen | Netherlands |
| Enkhuizen is an ancient port on the Zuyder Zee that was cut off from the sea by the completion of the enclosing dam (Afsluitdijk) which created the Ijsselmeer, in 1932. It is linked by a road across t... more >> |
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Erica | Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway Museum |
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Griendtsveenstraat 140 | 7887 TK Erica | Netherlands |
| The Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway museum was opened at Erica, 8 km south of Emmen, in 1984. The objective of the museum is to preserve evidence of narrow gauge railway systems, particularly those th... more >> |
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Falciano | Maranello Rosso Collection |
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21 Strata des Censiti | 47891 Falciano | San Marino |
| The principal collection of the cars made by Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988) is held in this museum in the republic of San Marino. Ferrari, known within his company as ‘il Commendatore’, had a successful... more >> |
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Falkirk | The Falkirk Wheel |
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Lime Road | FK1 4RS Falkirk | Great Britain |
| The Falkirk Wheel is the most spectacular work of engineering so far constructed during the restoration of the inland waterways network in Britain which began in the 1960s. It connects two canals buil... more >> |
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Finnas | Kulleseid Telegraph Station |
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Bömlo | 5437 Finnas | Norway |
| The oldest telecommunications building in Norway is a small, cream-painted, wooden building with a red pantile roof, at Kulleseid in the centre of Bomlo, one of the larger islands in the archipelago s... more >> |
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Fort Augustus | Caledonian Canal |
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Ardchattan House | Fort Augustus | Great Britain |
| The 96-km Caledonian Canal linking the east and west coasts of Scotland from Inverness to Corpach near Fort William, was built under the direction of William Jessop and Thomas Telford between 1804 and... more >> |
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Frankfurt | Museum of Communications |
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Schaumainkai 53 (Museumsufer) | 60596 Frankfurt | Germany |
| The core of the museum of communications in Frankfurt is the part of the collection of the museum established in Berlin by Heinrich von Stephan (1831-97) that was removed to Hesse after the Second Wor... more >> |
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Friedrichshafen | Zeppelin Museum |
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Seestrasse 22 | 88045 Friedrichshafen | Germany |
| Friedrichshafen on the shore of the Bodensee (Lake Constance) was the birthplace of Count Ferdinand Zeppelin (1838-1917). The airships that bore his name before the Hindenburg was destroyed by fire in... more >> |
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Gangelt | Selfkantbahn |
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Am Bahnhof | 52530 Gangelt | Germany |
| The speed is breathtaking. The train rushes through the gentle Selfkant countryside at a full 20 kilometres an hour! From time to time clouds of smoke from the steam locomotive pour in through the ope... more >> |
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Gävle | Swedish Railway Museum |
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Ralsgatan 1Box 407 | 801 05 Gävle | Sweden |
| The principal railway museum collections in Sweden have been located at Gavle since 1970, and consist of over 100 locomotives, 150 passenger carriages and several hundred wagons. The museum is adminis... more >> |
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Gdansk | National Maritime Museum |
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ul. Szeroka 67/68 | 80-835 Gdansk | Poland |
| The maritime museum was established in 1960 and is responsible for the conservation of several historic buildings in one of Europe’s most important ports, including three traditional granaries built... more >> |
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Gijón | Railway Museum of Asturias |
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Aza-Plaze de la Estacion del Norte | 33201 Gijón | Spain |
| The railway museum of Asturias was opened in 1998 on the site of the former RENFE station at Gijon North that was rendered redundant when the tracks in the city were re-routed in 1990. The original st... more >> |
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Glenfinnan | Glenfinnan Railway Station Museum |
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Station Road | PH37 4LT Glenfinnan | Great Britain |
| Mallaig, the port for the island of Skye, was one of the last significant towns in the United Kingdom to become part of the railway network. The North British Railway’s route linking Glasgow with Fo... more >> |
