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

Valley Railway operates almost throughout the year with a huge variety of historic steam trains. It links mediaeval Bridgnorth –in the shadow of Pisa-like leaning tower – with Kidderminster, a former car

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 town of Toijala lies south of Tampere on the main railway line linking the city with Helsinki. The locomotive museum is located in a roundhouse of the 1870s. Its collection of about 20 locomotives

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

reserve extended its transport and storage facilities to the municipality of Ormaiztegi, where it was linked to the Madrid-Irún railway line, looking for profitability in European markets. This rich iron ore

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

A dozen neatly arranged copper cauldrons, linked to tall distillation columns by curved pipes, the whole framed by smoothly jointed brick walls and permeated by the characteristic mix of sweet and dry

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

The suspension bridge that links Buda with Pest is one of Europe’s most iconic bridges, a monument to Hungarian nationalist feeling of the mid-19th century and to Hungary’s recovery from the destruction

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.

Europe. Tavistock was the inland terminus of the Tavistock Canal, an early 19th century waterway which linked the town to the copper port of Morwellham Quay on the River Tamar. The museum is located in the centre

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

the former kingdom of Saxony and the former DDR. It includes two steam locomotives with particular links to Chemnitz, a 2-cylinder 2-10-0 of class 43, built by Henschel in 1926, of a type which worked from

superior to that of charcoal. To make matters worse the Lenne Valley railway was built as a direct link between the ore reserves in the Siegerland region and the blast furnaces in the Ruhrgebiet. The L

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

also steam boat passenger services. The canal’s museum is at Ørje, alongside the three locks that link the lakes Rødenessjøen and Øymarksjøen. It is located in a former pulp mill, Ørje Brug, and includes