Bremen, Munich and Karlsruhe. An unusual feature of the network in Timisoara was its use from 1916 as a link carrying freight wagons between 10 factories and the railway system at Timisoara Est station. The

seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The planned city is located on the island of Trosso, that is linked by the ‘bridge of sighs’ to the islet of Stumholmen, on which was built the naval base, the principal

1870, the landing point for the cables that linked Britain with Spain, Portugal, Africa, the Mediterranean and more distant parts of the Empire. The first, linking England with Portugal, was laid in 1870 under

coast in south-eastern Spain, from Roman times. The Carretera del 33 (Way of the 33) is a road that links the community of La Unión with the port of Portmán. From 1869 until the last mines closed in 1991

devised a ´contour´ route, which followed the natural lie of the land, and the canal was, by 1772, linking Birmingham with Wolverhampton. But there was great difficulty in getting water into the canal, as

hydro-electric plant in 1904. From 1918 Oskar von Miller began to establish the Bayernwerke complex, linking existing plants with new generating capacity that made possible the electrification of railways in

retain marks of style and quality, with integral porches, porthole windows, hipped roofs and arcades linking semi-detached pairs. The former staff club, the most elegant building in Gretna, is now a hotel.

between the western and eastern parts of Norway. It was built in two stages, the more southerly linking the lower end of Lake Norsjø with Skien being completed in 1861, and the section south from Dalen

Rondane National Park, established in 1962. It offers an exhibition ‘From Mine to National Park’ which links the industrial history of the area with its ecology. There is a geological garden where rocks and

rowing boats and kayaks in which visitors can explore nearby parts of the harbour. The museum is linked with the centre of the Tysksebryggen (German Quay) by a small ferry boat the Beffen .

by Hans Hollein (1934-2014), opened in 1982 and was re-constructed in 2006-07. The museum fosters links between the city’s textile industries and practising artists and it holds collections of textile patterns

shows and multi-media presentations. It is part of a larger project for museums in Nordland and has links with museums across the frontier in north-west Russia.

Speyside as a centre for the manufacture of whisky. The town’s prosperity, based on its easy sea links with Glasgow, diminished as railways enabled Highland distillers to distribute their whisky more readily

style’ by William Frame for the Bute Dock Company, became the nerve centre for the trading activity linking railways and shipping. Today pierhead remains as a testimony to South Wales’ great industrial past

industrial society. A 25 km long metre-gauge electric railway the Thamhavnbanen was constructed to link the mines with the port of Thamhavn, near Orkanger on an inlet off the Trondheim Fiord. Shortly afterwards

tions Museum was established in 1990 and is a unique in its kind technology museum, inextricably linked with the technological and social development in Greece. Through its educational programs, visual

mining around Hrastnik in the Sava region of central Slovenia began in 1804 and was stimulated by a link to the Austrian Südbahn (southern railway) in 1849. Glass making in Hrastnik began in 1860 but the

and huge workshops in iron and steel works. The various production sites and housing estates were linked by a complex and dense network of railways. In 1854 the first railway line was opened between Gijón

The Gotha Canal forms part of a 558-km waterway that links Gothenburg on the west coast of Sweden with Stockholm on the Baltic. It was built between 1810 and 1832 through the energy of Count Baltzar von

What is the link between a certain Lady Victoria, black diamonds and a place called Newtongrange in Scotland? It’s simple? For Lady Victoria is the name of the old colliery in Newtongrange and when the