Germany's first museum railway. Today, the association operates a 7.8-kilometre-long line with its 1,000-millimetre gauge that runs from Bruchhausen-Vilsen to Asendorf and includes 8 stations and stops

and panoramic views from large-scale technical equipment like the bucket-wheel excavator 1547 (about 1.300 metric tons, built in 1985) or the belt stacker 1115 (2.400 metric tons, built in 1986). The Be

fascinating world of mining. Once you have been equipped with a helmet and protective clothing, travel 1.5 kilometres into the pit on the original mine railway. Experienced miners tell the story of their past

entrusted to trustees the government of ‘the port harbour and town of Whitehaven’ and James Lowther 1 st Earl of Lonsdale (1736-1802) undertook further developments. A new pier built in 1733-35 named the

that the bridge should be built quickly, and in spite of delays in the quarry, at Farrowchil, only 1.5 km away, and shortages of transport, it was used by traffic from late October of the same year although

their role in the siege of Belgrade. The mines were closed in 1993 by which time galleries extended 1,300 km through the workings, and went to a maximum depth of 850 m. Two show mines were established after

illustrates every aspect of the history and manufacture of iron and steel, and can be experienced in 1,5 hours. Visitors who have more time can choose from a several tours. One, taking about 3 hours, is

5 km. The system of loops and hairpin bends is known as the ‘Sargan Eight’. The average gradient is 1 in 55, and the line goes through 22 tunnels; the longest, at the summit, is 1666 m long. After a working

ur lies on the north coast of Iceland, 260 km from Reykjavik. Its population now numbers just over 1,200, but had declined from a total of more than 3,000 in the 1950s as a result of the disappearance

Bussières is a village of about 1,500 people 70 km west of Lyons in the Beaujolais region in the department of Loire. There have been weavers in the community since the Middle Ages, but the weaving of

be seen working. The best known is the replica dating from 1975 of George Stephenson’s Locomotion No 1 which worked on the Stockton & Darlington Railway from its opening in 1825. The original “Puffing Billy”

exhibits of outstanding interest, based at a station with a long and complex history. The station lies 1 km from the village of Quainton, 10 km north west of Aylesbury, and 71 km from London. The first station [...] Railway and used for many years on a branch line in Cornwall, a gigantic 4-8-4 passenger locomotive of 1.08 m gauge, built in 1953 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow for South African Railways

became part of the Blenheim estate of the Dukes of Marlborough, given by the nation to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722) in recognition of his victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704, whose

Towards the end of the war anti-aircraft gun batteries were built to combat the threat of German V1 flying bombs. An Atomic Weapons Research Establishment which was based at Orford Ness from 1955 until

Shrewsbury on 14 December 1942 and was completed on 30 June 1943. It extended over 22 ha, had a camp for 1,250 men, and 17 km of railway sidings. The industrial estate that now occupies the site provides a rich

the war. The first Colossus machine was installed at Bletchley Park in December 1943, the second on 1 June 1944, and eventually there were 10 at the establishment. After the war it is understood that two

know the house, and fewer have witnessed its palatial grandeur. The current house was built by the 1st Marquis of Rockingham and incorporates part of an earlier manor house built in 1630. An incredible

constructed a bridge with two main spans of 140-m long rectangular iron tubes, each weighing 1,500 long tons (1,700 short tons), supported by masonry piers, the centre one of which was built on the Britannia

the industrial, mining, and social history of potash mining in the Hessian-Thuringian Werra region on 1,000 square meters and is divided into five departments: potash as raw material, geological conditions

built by Burmeister & Wain for the power station in 1932, 24.5 m. long and 12.5 m tall and weighing 1,400 tonnes, which generated 15MW, equivalent to 22,500 h.p. It supplied electric power to Copenhagen