Underground network, but it was accessible from main line railways, and was used by cross-London freight trains until 1962. It was closed between 1995 and 1998 for maintenance and the construction of links with [...] The museum provides a full history of the tunnel and visitors are encouraged to travel by boat, train or on foot the short distance to the site where Brunel’s ship the SS Great Eastern was launched in

locomotive to watch the stoker shovelling coal into the crackling oven. Sometimes there’s a whole train attached to the locomotive as it chuffs peacefully along the Ruhr valley. There is no doubt that the [...] inspect the points, water tower, turntable, engine sheds and coal crane. In addition a rumbling field train waits to take its passengers on board, not forgetting the old-fashioned pig’s nose rail bus – because

surface for its further processing into mercury. You want to follow this process? Just let the mining train take you to the Park's well-restored surface buildings: the metallurgical furnaces where the mercury [...] walls since quicksilver was precious; the magnificent Gate of Charles IV through which packhorse trains and ox carts passed on their way to Seville; the mining museum revitalising the former compressor

join a “grand voyage” in a historic train. And don’t miss the “Caves of the Steel Animals” which is the name of two World War II bomb shelters. Children take the mini-train to go around the site. The roundhouse

on several floors cover public transport on water, road and rail, by horse-tram, metro, commuter train, tramway, bus and boat. Some 80 vehicles at the museum include a horse-drawn bus of around 1840 (the

caverns 540 metres below ground. A model shows a section through the ore body, shafts and tunnels. Trains, lorries, bulldozers, conveyors and cutting equipment are displayed alongside historical photographs

protecting and enhancing the Italian historical, artistic and landscape heritage. A 7-km journey by land-train passes between the mountains of salt and the salt lagoons colonised by flamingos, which extend for

another turntable and locomotive shed were added. By 1902, 350 people worked in the depot. Regional trains are still serviced there and the workshops repair and reconstruct steam locomotives. In the museum

20th century technology, including models of locomotives and trains, uniforms, banners, maps, awards, traffic control equipment, clocks, train sets and simulator of the Polish electric locomotive EU07. There’s

parts of Austria, Switzerland, and Germany, including Lake Constance with over 2km of track and 200 trains, of which 40 at a time run on the circuit. Projectors change the lighting effects from nighttime [...] to the permanent exhibition of over 2,000 tin toys, which date between 1860 and 1930 and include trains, cars, ships and zeppelins. In addition, there are children’s peddle cars and Porsche cars with which

regular passenger trains have been withdrawn. Since 2003 the track and the railcars that use it have been owned by a voluntary organisation, the Verein Erzbergbahn, which operates trains for visitors in

This building was once The Macclesfield School of Art built in 1877 to train designers for the silk industry. It now houses exhibitions exploring the properties of silk, design education, Macclesfield´s

design required the bridge to be sufficiently stiff to support the heavy loading associated with trains, so Stephenson constructed a bridge with two main spans of 140-m long rectangular iron tubes, each [...] Two additional spans of 70-m length completed the bridge making a 461-m long continuous girder. The trains ran inside the tubes. For its time, it was a bridge of "magnitude and singular novelty", far surpassing

1950s. Films and displays explore how trains work and the impact of coal and electricity. On scheduled days, visitors can take a ride on a 1950s passenger steam train or heritage diesel locomotives, which

Opposite to the entrance of the Truck Museum, the famous 'Slovenská strela' ("Slovak Arrow") express train is exhibited. Visits to the depository (guided tours only, organised by Tatra Technical Museum) are

ascent and descent. Based at Mürzzuschlag railway station, they had the horsepower needed to pull the trains across the Semmering. Some of these engines are still on display at the Südbahn Museum, which opened [...] n of the Semmering Railway and a real-life "tunnel experience" to famous rail travellers on the "Train of Destinies" and a mysterious "Locomotive of the Senses". Highlights of the rolling stock collection

000 tons of stone out of the mountain. Showing the underworld is the job of "Katl", a former pit train for miners. Intrepid ones can board it to get one and a half kilometres into the maze of tunnels beneath

Railway Museum in 1975. Exhibits include George Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 , which pulled the train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, and Derwent , built in Darlington in 1845

to save surviving elements of the Transcarpathia railway heritage. The museum consists of a single train with an operating steam locomotive and ten cars. The exhibits tell the story of the development of

and secure it began in 1996 and even included the construction of a mine train for visitors known as “Austria’s smallest mine train”. A facility of the mine above ground shows objects found underground and