generation halls. At its peak it had an output of 530 MW, most of which was applied to power the railway linking Lulea with Kiruna and Narvik. Josephson’s power station, now replaced by a modern plant, serves as

The importance of Kremnika from the Middle Ages in mining for gold and silver was linked to the creation of a mint that has operated continuously for some 700 years. The museum tells the stories of mining

Schepdaal was opened in 1962 in a former Vicinal depot, that was from 1887 the terminus of steam trams linking the centre of Brussels with Schepdaal. The line was extended to Ninove, and was electrified in 1925

a multi-media introduction to the geology of the area and the history of the mines. Ardoi’Alle is linked through the organisation Le Réseau Ardoise d’Ardenne and the trail guide La Route d’Ardoise with

extends for 7.6 km from the town of Brienz, where there are connections with trains on the Brünig line linking Lucerne and Interlaken, and with steamers on Lake Brienz to a station near the summit of the mountain

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

slopes of the nearby mountains, and their remains are still visible as part of a unique landscape, linked to the extraction of iron in Asparrena.

The Mittelland Canal, the strategic link between Berlin and the Ruhrgebiet, was authorised in 1905 and crosses the River Weser at Minden. It was part of a comprehensive programme of waterways development

A trip on the East Lancashire Railway is journey back in time. Opened in 1846 to link the Manchester to Bolton line with Radcliffe. It was a popular passenger and freight route which continued along the

happened when coal was dug underneath the building and from the parkland up to the edge of the garden. Links to Wortley Hall and Wentworth Castle too.

The building of the Canal du Midi, linking the Garonne navigation at Toulouse (and therefore the Atlantic Ocean) with the Mediterranean at Sete demonstrated to the whole of Europe the possibilities of [...] his retirement in 1662 he began to argue at the court of Louis XIV that a canal should be built, linking the Atlantic with the Mediterranean, demonstrating that he had developed means of supplying such

building of the Gebr woollen factory next to the River Dömnitz. The factory and the brewery are now linked by a bridge. The museum was comprehensively redeveloped in 2018. The focus is on the social, tec

tourist excursions to the papal summer palace in Castel Gandolfo are also offered from there. Related Links WIKIPEDIA: Economy of Vatican City Vatican City. Vatican Radion

1-m-gauge rack railway at the western end of the French Pyrenees, in the French Basque Country. It links the Col de Saint-Ignace for 4.2 km to the summit of the mountain called La Rhune. The purpose of the

Hollander first used there in 1745. There is an extensive library and the museum has many international links.

The Elbe Lateral Canal (Elbe Seitenkanal) is an almost straight waterway, 115 km long that links the River Elbe at Artlenburg near Hamburg with the eastern part of the Mittelland Canal near Wolfsburg.

for dresses and furnishings. The museum is the base for the Waldviertel Textilstrasse, a route that links together all the historical textile sites and collections in Lower Austria.

of models, photographs, documents, tickets and plans, and an extensive archive. The depot is still linked to the tracks of the city’s operating network, and in the summer months visitors can travel there

limestone in the hills around Cricova are some of the most extensive in Europe. Some 120 km of roadways link great chambers from which limestone has been extracted since the fifteenth century. Since 1952 the

Cologne and Aix-la-Chapelle in Germany with the Belgian cities of Liège and Antwerp. The railway line linked the Rhineland with a seaport – a way to avoid the expensive Dutch customs tariffs on the River Rhine