The railway links Agordat and Asmara with the port of Massawa ; however, it was nonoperational since 1978 except for about a 5 kilometre stretch that was reopened in Massawa in 1994.

Of this, uses a broad rail gauge of, while a narrow gauge of is used on a 957-km ( 595-mile ) stretch of railway on Sakhalin Island.

To the left is the restored Saltisford Canal Arm, a short stretch that used to run under the railway to the original canal basin complex and terminus of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal-the basin was filled-in in the 1970s.

* Staff ( railway signalling ), a token authorizing a locomotive driver to use a particular stretch of single track

The most famous portion of the railway is Bridge 277, ' the bridge over the River Kwai ', which was built over a stretch of river which was then known as part of the Mae Klong.

The Wabash Railway Company, which built a stretch of the LM & B through Illinois, originally wanted to construct a railway switch at a site known as Weaver City, a small town just west of Ambia in Vermilion County, Illinois ; the owner of the property, however, refused to grant land for it.

The railway network consists of the electrified standard gauge stretch of the Deutsche Bahn Stralsund ( Rügendamm )- Bergen-Sassnitz line ( timetable route ( KBS ) 195 ), Lietzow-Binz ( KBS 197 ), the non-electrified routes Bergen-Putbus-Lauterbach Mole of the PRESS ( KBS 198 ) and the narrow gauge stretch ( 750 mm ) of the Rügen Resort Railway ( Rasender Roland ): Lauterbach Mole-Putbus-Binz-Sellin-Göhren ( KBS 199 ).

Dymock was served by the Hereford & Gloucester Canal, opened in 1845 ; this closed in 1881 and the section between Ledbury and Gloucester converted into a railway line, a branch line of the Great Western Railway, though a stretch between Dymock and Newent was by-passed as it was decided not to take the line through the 2, 192 yard Oxenhall Tunnel.

The railway line is carried on eight stone viaducts along this stretch ( see Cornwall Railway viaducts ).

Three years later the first nine miles ( 14 km ) or so of this line, the stretch from Great Chesterford to Six Mile Bottom, was superseded by a more viable section linking Six Mile Bottom directly with Cambridge, and so the Great Chesterford-Six Mile Bottom section closed in 1851, one of the earliest closures in British railway history ( the former Bourne Bridge station is believed to have been partly incorporated into a public house just across the road from a station opened later on another line-Pampisford, on the now-closed Cambridge-Haverhill-Sudbury route ).

The railway will stretch from Harbin, Heilongjiang ’ s capital, to Dalian in Liaoning province via Changchun and Shenyang comprising 23 stops.

He named the stretch of coastline, particularly the Overstrand and Sidestrand area, " Poppyland ", and the combination of the railway and his writing in the national press brought many visitors.

A 20 – 35 km wide stretch of land in Vyborgsky District and Republic of Karelia to the west of the Vyborg – Hiitola railway, as well as the islands and shores of the Gulf of Vyborg, belongs to the strictly guarded zone of the border control, reaching the shore of Lake Ladoga at Hiitola.

The busiest stretch of railway runs from Lauterbrunnen to Wengen as this is also used to transport goods to traffic-free Wengen.

Much of Chepstow's late 13th century Port Wall remains intact, although the stretch south of the railway line was demolished when the National Shipyard was constructed in 1916.

* Token ( railway signalling ), a physical object given to a locomotive driver to authorize him to use a particular stretch of single railway track

Along this stretch it also passes Salford Crescent railway station near the junction with Albion Way.

First of all it was decided that the new airport was to have an as environmentally friendly ground infrastructure as possible, resulting in the decision to build a high speed railway on the 56 km stretch from Oslo Central Station to the airport, which would only take 19 minutes.

The Great Central Railway ( GCR ) is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, named after the company whom built this stretch of mainline in the past.

This stretch had no buildings or side tracks, and all facilities which meet the present-day visitor was built after becoming a heritage railway.

The stretch between Toddington and Cheltenham Racecourse, including Winchcombe, has since been reconstructed and reopened as a heritage railway called the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.

Shimbashi is the original terminus of Japan's first stretch of railway, the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is one of Japan's oldest stations ( the oldest station being Shinagawa, a few kilometres down the line ).

It began operating its first stretch of railway between Sasazuka and Chōfu in 1913.

Spending much of his youth on Bear Island, in Penobscot Bay off the coast of Maine, he had trouble with geometry, being unable to understand the abstraction necessary to imagine that a chalk dot on the blackboard represented a mathematical point, or that an imperfectly drawn line with an arrow on the end was meant to stretch off to infinity.

Because there is no single straight line of yarn anywhere in the pattern, a knitted piece can stretch in all directions.

West of the 141 ° E line of longitude, the river continues as the Victoria – South Australia border for, this being the only stretch where a state border runs down the middle of the river.

Napoleon then sends a diversionary infantry attack against Wellington's right flank — the Chateau of Hougoumont — with the view to stretch the Allied line and to " see the quality of this English aristocrat ".

Factors that may determine what line an angler chooses for a given fishing environment include breaking strength, knot strength, UV resistance, castability, limpness, stretch, abrasion resistance, and visibility.

Its ability to stretch is a disadvantage because it makes the angler's contact with the fish less direct and hook-sets less powerful than with a non-stretchable line.

Compared to dry hair, wet hair can be easier to manage in a cut / style situation because the added weight and surface tension of the water cause the strands to stretch downward and cling together along the hair's length, holding a line and making it easier for the stylist to create a form.

The last stretch between Tortosa and Sant Carles de la Ràpita was never completed before the line was terminated by RENFE in 1973.

A stretch of railroad line was laid through areas of Sadsbury Township and Salisbury Township, which portions of each township share the Gap ZIP code ( 17527 ) and the town name of Gap.

The Dutch first line of infantry was placed in a strong defensive position, on top of a stretch of dunes, with guns covering both flanks with enfilade fire.

A short stretch of the Middleborough-Lakeville line of the MBTA's commuter rail passes through the western section of town.

A small, quarter-mile stretch of Interstate 495 passes through the northeast corner of town, just before its exit on Route 58, which terminates along the town line at Route 28.

If laid end to end in a straight line, this cable would stretch from Whiteman AFB to beyond Los Angeles.

One is on the line between Summitville and Phillipsport where a lone stretch of the canal and the towpath, along with a dry-dock have been cleaned up.

The northern stretch of another " borough line " street, McNeilly Avenue, runs through Dormont on one side and the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Brookline on the other.

In 1929, a nine-mile stretch from Stuart to the North Carolina state line south was covered.

: What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

There is, however, a second school of change ringing on handbells, which uses a technique called ' lapping ', or ' cross and stretch ': the ringers stand or sit in a straight line at a single convenient table, from which they pick up a bell each time they ring it ; and to which they thereupon return it.