the scene the brown coal came from primitive drift mining shafts. Later, around 1900, these were linked by a chain railway to the neighbouring open-cast mine. From 1928 onwards the coal was transported

skills. Furthermore, anyone wanting to explore the neighbourhood on foot can follow a signed path linking the different sites of the stone industry in Sprimont, and dotted with detailed information boards

and subsequently laid out to its present plan. The two principal streets run down a slope, and are linked by alleyways, making up a grid pattern. The Røros museum holds collections of historic documents

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

lies on the western slopes of the Pennines above the Lancashire town of Oldham to which it is now linked. The townships include many fine houses of local stone with long-light windows that illuminated the

The 96-km Caledonian Canal linking the east and west coasts of Scotland from Inverness to Corpach near Fort William, was built under the direction of William Jessop and Thomas Telford between 1804 and

far as a reservoir at Stoke Newington. In 2004 Thames Water completed the 22 km New River Path, linking Hertford with Islington. There are interpretation boards on the full length of the New River describing

on the English canal system, the starting point of the Grand Junction Canal, opened in 1805, which linked it to London, and the point where it was joined by the Oxford Canal, which took boats to central

built in Europe in the late 19th that is still operated with its original equipment. Its 2 km course links the station at Prien, on the railway from Munich to Saltzburg, with the pier at Stock, from which

Edwin Clark (1814-94), and was similar in principle to that at Anderton. It replaced five locks that linked the Aa and Lys waterway systems, and raised vessels 13 m. It was replaced by a new lock in 1967,

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

failure. The Rhein-Marne canal, completed in 1853, ran between Vitry-les-Francois and Strasbourg and linked the Saone, the Marne, the Maas, the Mosel and the Saar. The barges on the Rhine on their way from

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

established as a private venture by Jack James, the lock keeper from 1947 until 1962, and is now linked to the National Waterways Museum at Gloucester. Its displays relate to canals all over England, but

water from the low fen areas and to improve navigation. Denver lock is the main navigation structure linking the south Level River system to the tidal river and then to the middle level or the sea. The first

The pass of San Gottardo is one of the principal links between northern and southern Europe. The much-rebuilt hospice at its summit, 2100 m above sea level, originated in the 14th century and is now an

metres and as such seems to be a complete brewery universe. Today more than 500 different beers are linked with the name Carlsberg. A tour of the museum leads you through the original and still operational

production had been transformed by the 1920s by the introduction of machinery. A flashing light system links the museum with the modernistic Centre for Artificial Light in Art on the other side of the street

of lumbermen and hunters, and more modern prefabricated wooden buildings. A bridge over the river links the forest museum to the Glomdalsmuseum, an open-air collection of buildings from the Glomma valley

and more recent products, particularly vehicles, are displayed in the Munktell Museum, which is linked with the Volvo company.