Vienna’s Arbeitsgruppe des Verbandes der Eisenbahn freude (Working Group of the Association of Friends of Railways, or VEF) was formed in 1969, and formally organised from 1972. The association opened [...] opened a Museum of the Vienna Tramways at Ottakring station in 1972 after six years of collecting, but space was limited and in 1986 the collections were moved to the Erdberg station near the Stadium Bridge [...] restoration of historic buildings but re-opened from 13 September 2014. The museum is concerned with Vienna’s tramways, underground railways and buses, and their history is portrayed in 15 chronologically arranged

The collection of rolling stock at Schwechat, 12 km south-east of Vienna, is modest in size in comparison with those of the great national railway museums, but it represents a particularly interesting [...] the political exigencies of the Danube valley during the 20th century. The main line railway from Vienna to the present day Slovakian city of Bratislava [German: Pressburg] follows the north bank of the [...] that would be called an ‘interurban’ route in the United States. At either end of the line, 12 km in Vienna and 7 km in Bratislava shared the tracks of city tramways. The new section extended 50 km across

The technical museum in Vienna holds many artefacts of significance to the industrial history of Europe. It was formally established in 1908, with Dr Ludwig Erhard as its director, as part of the jubilee [...] 1795, with several nineteenth-century steam engines, including one of 1856 made by Vincenz Prick of Vienna. There is a particularly important collection of early electricity-generating equipment, including [...] collections of machine tools and sewing machines, and of early bicycles and motor cars made in Styria and Vienna. The building department includes models of early Garden City style developments, and there is also

hammer mill, is devoted to the history of water supply and to the achievements in constructing the Vienna spring water pipeline which was of significant importance for the water supply of city. Since 1910 [...] capital with 217,000 cubic meters drinking water daily. The SpringWater Museum documents how the second Vienna spring water line was built and illustrates the city’s water supply. Interactive multimedia displays

The municipality in Vienna in the period between the end of the Habsburg Empire in 1918 and the anschluss of 1938 expended much energy in the provision of housing for the city’s working class, and many [...] four arched passageways and crowned with six towers. Like all the large community buildings of Red Vienna, the Karl-Marx-Hof also had a whole range of infrastructure and community facilities, such as a mother's [...] set up in the rooms of Laundromat No. 2, whose permanent exhibition presents the history of "Red Vienna" from 1919 to 1934/45, municipal housing and subsequent facilities, educational and cultural work

Guntramsdorf is a small town with about 9000 inhabitants, south-west of Vienna on the edge of the Vienna Woods. The Museum Walzengravieranstalt (Museum of Engraving) opened in 1989 on the premises that

Strasshof lies 25 km east of Vienna and between 1908 and 1951 was the site of a large marshalling yard around which grew up a community of railwaymen living in houses in the Garden City style. The railway [...] railway museum, a branch of the Technical Museum in Vienna, occupies an 8.5 ha site that includes the buildings of a railway depot. It holds a collection of more than 50 locomotives as well as many passenger

The Museum was established in 2001 by the Association of Warsaw-Vienna Railway Enthusiasts. The exhibits include: devices and elements of the railway equipment, lamps and uniforms. There is also a collection

the principal outlet to the sea of the Habsburg Empire. In 1857 the city gained a direct link to Vienna with the completion of the Sudbahn (southern railway) over the Semmering Pass, whose terminus was [...] includes 11 steam locomotives made by several Italian companies, and by works in Wiener Neustadt, Vienna-Floridsdorf, Berlin and Budapest, as well as diesel and electric locomotives and several railcars

from Greece, and its varied wares were sold to department stores in Berlin, Vienna, St Petersburg, Paris, London and Vienna. It was also well-known for black glaze wares whose manufacture was introduced

was established in 1976 and now occupies a striking building designed by Delugan Meissl (b 1959) of Vienna which was formally opened on 31 January 2009. It displays more than 80 vehicles in spectacular settings

Franz Josef Gerstner in 1807, but was realised by his son Franz Antonin Gerstner, a professor at Vienna Polytechnic, who studied similar lines in England. The line was converted to steam operation in 1870

The company Hackl und Söhne, which manufactured high quality clothing, was established in Vienna in 1843, and subsequently set up a factory around a manor house at Weitra in Lower Austria, 8 km south-east

Bodensee, and take refreshments at two restaurants. The cars, of modern construction, were built in Vienna, and can carry up to 80 passengers. The museum is located in a range of new buildings at the lower

Mining Museum at Sopron, 210 km W of Budapest on the eastern slopes of the Alpes, and 70 km south of Vienna holds the largest collection of mining artefacts in Hungary. It is located in one of the Baroque

The Vienna Arsenal is a huge industrial complex that once supplied one of the largest European armies. Unlike the Arsenale in Venice, it has no ancient origins, having been established in 1849 on the

mountain town near Turin that was a centre of silk manufacturing. Max Gütermann created a company in Vienna to manufacture silk thread for sewing in 1864. Because he needed soft water, he opened a factory

large collection of vehicles made and used in the town, the oldest of which is a horse tram built in Vienna in 1869. A 2-axle steeple cab electric locomotive used to haul freight wagons on the network is also

‘pater-noster’ from Borzas, and the first steam engine used in present-day Romania, brought from Vienna in 1853 to work a combined corn- and oil-mill, as well as several steam pumping engines from met

From Vienna to Trieste in 13 hours and 4 minutes - in 1857, when the last track of the Südbahn was laid, this was considered a sensation. Until then, crossing the Alps had been a challenging and time-consuming