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15.05.13
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 - Save the date - Call for papers now open
ERIH Annual Conference 2013 – Back in the Ruhr
Subject: “Measuring the benefits of industrial...
10.03.13
Review of the ERIH Annual Conference 2012
More than 100 delegates from 15 European Countries attended the ERIH Conference 2012 in September...
21.02.13
Call for papers: Rust, Regeneration and Romance: Iron and Steel Landscapes and Cultures
International Conference Announcement and Call for Papers from the Ironbridge International...
Itinéraire thématique des transports
La révolution industrielle entraîna rapidement un changement radical dans les transports – en échange, le ronflement des nouveaux bateaux à vapeur et la fumée des locomotives accéléraient l’industrialisation. Le changement commença avec les routes fluviales qui, depuis des siècles, s’étaient avérées les plus efficaces pour assurer le transport des marchandises. Dans la région du textile du Lancashire, l’un des berceaux de l’ère industrielle, le canal Bridgewater fut achevé en 1761.
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Brest | Musee National de la Marine et Musee de la Compagnie des Indes de Port-Louis |
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Chateau de Brest | 29200 Brest | France |
| The maritime museum has been located since 1958 in one of the finest fortresses on the French coast, one that has walls surviving from Gallo-Roman fortifications of the 3rd century ad, but which is la... plus >> |
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Bristol | SS Great Britain |
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Great Western DockyardHarbourside | BS1 6TY Bristol | Great Britain |
| The SS Great Britain was the first ocean-going, iron-hulled, screw-driven vessel, and was the world’s largest ship when she was launched from the dockyard in which she now reposes in 1843. She was d... plus >> |
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Brno | Technical Museum in Brno |
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Purkyñova 105 | 612 000 Brno | Czech Republic |
| Brno grew from the late 18th century to be one of the principal industrial cities in Europe. The manufacture of woollen cloth was introduced by a state-sponsored company in 1764. The German Wilhelm Mu... plus >> |
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Brussels | Musee de transport urbain bruxellois |
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Avenue de Tervuren 364 B | 1150 Brussels | Belgium |
| Brussels has an extensive tramway system that originated in the late nineteenth century and is now incorporated in the city’s Metro system. The museum has a collection of more than 60 vehicles, the ... plus >> |
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Brussels | Tour et Taxis |
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Avenue de Port 86c | 1000 Brussels | Belgium |
| The early 20th century inter-modal transport hub on the north side of Brussels takes its name from the family of Frans de Tassis who became Master of the Post in the Holy Roman Empire in 1501, and who... plus >> |
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Brussels | Autoworld |
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JubelparkParc de Cinquantenaire 11 | 1000 Brussels | Belgium |
| The Autoworld museum displays about 200 hundred historic motor cars in one of the Cinquantenaire exhibition halls built for the exhibition of 1880 that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the establi... plus >> |
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Budapest | Hungarian National Railway Museum |
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Tatai ut 95 | 1142 Budapest | Hungary |
| Hungary’s national collection of railway vehicles has been housed since 2000 on the site of the former Budapest North motive power depot of the state railway company (MAV). Some of the 50 locomotive... plus >> |
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Budapest | Underground Railway Museum |
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Deák Ferenc téri metró aluljáró | 1052 Budapest | Hungary |
| An underground electric railway, 3.7 km in length, was opened in Budapest in 1896 to convey visitors to the exhibition staged in that year to mark the millennium of the Hungarian nation. This line, no... plus >> |
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Budapest | Chain Bridge |
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Széchenyi lánchíd | Budapest | Hungary |
| The suspension bridge that links Buda with Pest is one of Europe’s most iconic bridges, a monument to Hungarian nationalist feeling of the mid-19th century and to Hungary’s recovery from the destr... plus >> |
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Burnley | Weavers´ Triangle |
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85 Manchester Road | BB11 1JZ Burnley | Great Britain |
| The Weavers´ Triangle is a modern name for an area astride the Leeds and Liverpool Canal that was once at the heart of Burnley´s textile industry. The name was first used in the 1970s, as interest d... plus >> |
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Bury | Chemin de fer Lancashire de l’est |
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Bolton Street Station | BL9 0EY Bury | Great Britain |
| A trip on the East Lancashire Railway is journey back in time. Opened in 1846 to link the Manchester to Bolton line with Radcliffe. It was a popular passenger and freight route which continued along t... plus >> |
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Cadca | Orava Logging Railway | Kysuce open air museum |
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Moyzesova 50 | 022 01 Cadca | Slovakia |
| The mountainous regions of Orava and Kysuce, in the north-west of present-day Slovakia near to the Polish border but previously part of the Habsburg Empire, have been an important source of timber for... plus >> |
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Camborne | Mineral Tramways Discovery Centre |
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Troon | TR16 3SE Camborne | Great Britain |
| Long before I K Brunel’s broad gauge main line railway reached the west of Cornwall the tin and copper mines of the area around Redruth ahd Camborne were linked with harbours on the coast by early r... plus >> |
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Cardiff | Pierhead Building |
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Maritime Road | CF10 4PZ Cardiff | Great Britain |
| By 1890 Cardiff was the most important coal port in the world. The pierhead building (1986), designed in ‘chateau style’ by William Frame for the Bute Dock Company, became the nerve centre for the... plus >> |
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Ceské Budìjovice | Ceske Budejovice (Budweis) horse-drawn railway |
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Mánesova 10 | 2T38 Ceské Budìjovice | Czech Republic |
| The original Bodvar (Budweiser) beer and Koh I Noor pencils are manufactured at Ceske Budejovice in southern Bohemia, but the town was also a place of great trade, and is important as the terminus of ... plus >> |
