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

later. The three main features of the project, the approach viaduct, the 185m long steel and glass train shed, which originally accommodated 10 platforms, and the station building, designed by Louis Delacenserie [...] traffic in 1907, and the whole scheme, with a new entrance from Kievilplein, was completed in 2009. Trains now operate from 14 platforms on three levels. As in many modern stations there are extensive retailing

using models, images and specimens. The tour underground begins with a journey of nearly 1km on a train and continues on foot for 300m. Guides explain the working techniques and conditions underground to

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

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

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

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

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

shallower deposits was extracted by open-cast working. Visitors are able to go 1 km underground on a train, to explore the working face of the mine, and to eat underground the typical lunch of a mid-20th century

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

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

They represent most modes of transport in Austria, including horse carriages, bicycles, trams and trains, motor vehicles and aeroplanes. All kinds of specialist vehicles are included, such as fire engines

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

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

are flying through the sky. For both the rails and the wheels are connected to the ceiling of the train. 12 metres below flows the River Wupper. The railway only leaves the river in the West near Vohwinkel [...] The whole journey offers wonderful views of the city. This is not only due to the height of the trains but to Wuppertal itself – more precisely to the nature of the Wupper valley, which is the literal [...] 13.3 kilometre long steel framework began in 1898. Three years later on 1st March 1901 the first trains went into operation. Now the overhead railway carries more than 23,000,000 customers a year and is

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

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

Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949. An exciting part of the museum looks beyond train operation, illustrating the equipment of train depots at the turn of the 19th century. In this context the collection features [...] forming the framework of the museum, hints to a precious relic of Portuguese railroad history. The train depot sits right next to the station of Lousado and is home to a collection that offers railway e

In a reconstructed section of underground workings visitors see coal-cutting machines, electric trains, a suspended monorail and coal conveyors. A dedicated area explains the dangerous work of mine rescue

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