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* Waiau Branch, a Canterbury branch line railway in service from 1882 to 1978: see also Weka Pass Railway
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Waiau and Branch
* Main North Line, New Zealand and Waiau Branch in Canterbury
It is operated on a 12 km length of the former Waiau Branch railway between Waipara and Waikari.
: See Waiau Branch for more details
The first stage of the Waiau Branch line inland through the Weka Pass to Waikari was completed in 1882.
The Waiau Branch suffered the fate of many rural branch lines in later years as increasing competition from road transport saw a decline in traffic carried.
* Waiau Branch
The Weka Pass Railway has its base in Waipara, and runs on 12 kilometres of track between here and Waikari over the former route of the Waiau Branch, a branch line railway that diverged from the Main North Line and ran to Waiau.
Although the line to Culverden was treated as the main line for decades, it eventually became part of the Waiau Branch.
Waiau and Canterbury
Waiau Ferry Bridge over Waiau River, Canterbury | Waiau River, just outside of Hanmer Springs
* The Waiau River, Canterbury, once called the Waiau-ua River and
* Waiau, Canterbury
* Waiau River, Canterbury
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Waiau and line
Further sections of the line through Hawarden, Medbury, Balmoral, Pahau, Culverden, Achray, Rotherham and Waiau were constructed in subsequent years.
The line was officially opened to Medbury in 1884 and to Culverden in 1886 but the final section to Waiau was not completed until 1919.
The Culverden line now ran all the way as Waiau and some work took place on a line to link Waiau with Kaikoura, but after a few kilometres of formation was made, work came to a halt.
Waiau and from
The Waiau River ( Southland ) is both a natural inlet and outlet for the lake, flowing into the northeast of the lake from Lake Te Anau, to the north and flowing out from Manapouri's south-eastern end.
The Plains extend from the Waiau River in the west to the Mataura River which forms the border with the Otago Region to the east.
Waiau and Pass
This route continues over the Waiau Pass, eventually connecting with the St James Walkway and Lewis Pass.
Branch and Canterbury
Following the commemoration of the centenary of this line, various groups including the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society ( Canterbury Branch ) ( now the Canterbury Railway Society ) became interested in developing the historical site.
At that time the Canterbury Branch of the NZRLS applied to the New Zealand Railways Department to lease part of the old Southbridge Branch at Prebbleton.
The Museum of Science and Industry and the Canterbury Branch decided that the Ferrymead site was ideal.
The Canterbury Branch started construction of the Ferrymead Railway with infrastructure and facilities including the workshop, engine shed, stations, signalling systems and other facilities.
Also in that year, the NZRLS Canterbury Branch was reconstituted as the Canterbury Railway Society.
Similar works were soon started in Christchurch ( Ferrymead Railway ), Auckland ( Glenbrook Vintage Railway ), Wellington ( Silver Stream Railway ) and the Waikato by the NZRLS Canterbury Branch, Railway Enthusiasts Society ( former NZRLS Auckland Branch ), NZRLS Wellington Branch and NZRLS Waikato Branch.
Included in these was the Canterbury Branch of the New Zealand Railway and Locomotive Society, which had formed in the late 1950s to cater for local rail enthusiast interests.
The Canterbury Branch came into existence in the late 1950s.
The Ferrymead Railway has been the main project of the Canterbury Branch since 1964.
As noted above, excursion trains were a major early activity of the Canterbury Branch.
When the requirement for full membership of the parent society began to be enforced there was a move for the Canterbury Branch to follow the lead of the former Auckland, Wellington and Otago Branches and form a separate Society.
Constitutional amendments were passed in 1990 which resulted in the Branch becoming the independent Canterbury Railway Society.
* Little River Rail Trail, a similar but smaller trail in Canterbury along the route of the Little River Branch
Branch lines were later opened to Tunbridge Wells, Hastings, Canterbury and other places in Kent.
Branch and branch
In 1876, a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad, the Berkeley Branch Railroad, was laid from a junction with the mainline called Shellmound ( now a part of Emeryville ) into what is now downtown Berkeley.
* Branch: Bcc ( a branch where the " cc " specified one of 16 tests of the condition codes in the status register: equal, greater than, less-than, carry, and most combinations and logical inversions, available from the status register ).
One conjecture holds that " Nazareth " is derived from one of the Hebrew words for ' branch ', namely ne · ṣer, נ ֵ֫ צ ֶ ר, and alludes to the prophetic, messianic words in Book of Isaiah 11: 1, ' from ( Jesse's ) roots a Branch ( netzer ) will bear fruit.
; Branch offset optimization ( machine independent ): Choose the shortest branch displacement that reaches target
** Santa Fe Branch ( Chili Line ), a narrow-gauge branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
“ Thus says the Lord of hosts: Here is a man whose name is Branch ( Hebrew: Zemah ): for he shall branch out in his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord … he shall bear royal honor, and shall sit upon his throne and rule.
The South Branch rises out of Lake St. Helen in Richfield Township, Roscommon County at and flows northwest into Roscommon then northeast to the main branch of the Au Sable.
Branch leaders are ' tipped ', removing the top three or four buds to a bud facing in the desired direction to make them branch out and so produce more tip-bearing shoots.
To honor the original town name, the local town branch that flows near Crooked Creek and through town is called the Shawnee Town Branch.
Selbyville was originally known as Sandy Branch due to its location on a branch of that name emanating in the Cypress Swamp at the head of the St. Martin's River.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Miami Branch Office, one of the five Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta branch offices, is located in Doral.
A rail branch spur from the Great Eastern Line, known as the Aldeburgh Branch Line, went from Saxmundham to Aldeburgh, with intermediate stations at Leiston and Thorpeness.
There are four post offices in the city, located in Flint Village, the South End Branch ( near Globe Corners ), Highland Station and the central branch just behind Government Center, a post office modeled after the James Farley Post Office, the New York City main post office behind Penn Plaza.
The road closely follows the East Branch of the North River south to its junction with the West Branch, before following the main branch southward towards Massachusetts Route 2 in Shelburne.
Barnett became the first postmaster of Branch, in Mason County, on February 1, 1876, named for the township, which in turn is named for the north branch of the Pere Marquette River.
It later became West Branch when lumberjacks named it after the " west branch " of the Rifle River.
The railroad was originally a Central Railroad of New Jersey branch connecting the still-active former Penn Central line from Jamesburg, New Jersey to CNJ's Seashore Branch and the New York and Long Branch line ( now owned by New Jersey Transit ) at Matawan, New Jersey.
LIRR trains also run directly along the northeast boundary of the CDP using the Central Branch ; however, the last station along this branch, the South Farmingdale Station, closed in 1974.
The new branch is now called the Far Rockaway Branch of the Long Island Railroad.
Early on, the location was also called " East Branch ," in reference to its location on the east branch of the Oswegatchie River.
Murphy was once the terminus of the Murphy Branch rail line built in the late 19th century, although the branch now ends in Andrews since 1985.
In 1826, the Pennsylvania Board of Canal Commissioners engaged John Bennett to survey the route of a new canal, to be called the North Branch Canal, to run alongside the north branch ( the main branch ) of the Susquehanna River from Northumberland to the New York border.
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