1864. It stands on the Eider river with which the Nord-Ostsee-Kanal, or Kiel Canal, the ship way linking the North Sea with the Baltic, built between 1910 and 1913, follows a parallel course. The completion

towns in the United Kingdom to become part of the railway network. The North British Railway’s route linking Glasgow with Fort William was completed in 1894, and the 67.5 km extension to Mallaig in 1901. The

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

design of Peter Behrens. Offices are arranged around a large hall, and the spacious stair well is linked to the old main entrance to the site by an imposing bridge. The building is an outstanding example

contrast to the lunar landscape of the immediately adjacent modern opencast mine. Both worlds are linked by a 2 km path.

when it was the principal outlet to the sea of the Habsburg Empire. In 1857 the city gained a direct link to Vienna with the completion of the Sudbahn (southern railway) over the Semmering Pass, whose terminus

reached the west of Cornwall the tin and copper mines of the area around Redruth ahd Camborne were linked with harbours on the coast by early railways. The routes of some of these lines have been adapted

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

that linked the River Clyde at Bowling, 4 km south-east of Dumbarton, with the Firth of Forth near Grangemouth, and the Union Canal, constructed in 1818-22, that from a junction at Falkirk linked it with [...] but they were subsequently restored for recreational purposes, and the innovative Falkirk Wheel linking the two was a Millennium project, funded by the National Lottery, and was opened in 2002. The structure

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

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.

part of the project begun in the 1950s to make the late 19th and early 20th century Canal du Centre linking the Meuse and the Scheldt through the coalfield between Mons and Charleroi accessible for the standard

(1913-98) who was born and spent his whole life in Sesto San Giovanni. The Museum maintains close links with an Institute of Contemporary History (ISEC), formed in 2002, which aims both to stimulate and

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

the mining museum at Bar-de-Luc and the PASS science centre at Frameries. La Chaine des Terrils has links with the similar association in Nord-Pas-de-Calais which is based at Loos-en-Gohelle.

by the completion of the enclosing dam (Afsluitdijk) which created the Ijsselmeer, in 1932. It is linked by a road across the dyke to Lelystad in Flevoland. The museum follows the tradition established

single-storey weaving shed, with half its roof of glass, was built on the opposite side of the river, and linked with the rest of the premises by two iron bridges. He also established a canal connection with the

1877, the difficult terrain dictating the choice of a metre gauge system. The strategic north-south link from Bastia through Corte to Ajaccio was completed in 1888. The network totalled 295 km by 1914 and

area from the Middle Ages, but in the 1840s Francesco Rossi developed a scheme for a canal that would link the Po near Chivasso with its tributary, the River Ticino near Galliate, more than 80 km to the north-east

generally acknowledged to be the first bridges for which static values were worked out. They are closely linked with the name of Professor Johann Andreas Schubert (1808-1870), the rector of the Saxon Education