The old woman had a nephew from North Italy, a poor boy from a lumber mill who had got tired of the seasonal unemployment, and who had migrated to Canada to work on the railway.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

In June 2010, Transport Minister Manuk Vartanian revealed that Yerevan is seeking as much as $ 1 billion in loans from China to finance the railway ’ s construction.

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

The Abensberg railway station is located on the Danube Valley Railway from Regensburg to Ingolstadt.

It can be reached by underground railway ( although the stations are at a distance from the Park and at a much lower level below the hill ), by city buses, or by commercial tourist buses.

* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.

Starting in 1840, the railway from Cologne to Belgium passed through Aachen.

Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne.

* Railway gun: large-caliber weapons that are mounted on, transported by and fired from specially-designed railway wagons.

The railway came to Aberdour in 1890, with the building of the line east from the newly opened Forth Railway Bridge.

The town has strong local travel links as Accrington railway station lies on the East Lancashire Line serving trains running locally and trains running from Blackpool to York.

The Stuart Highway runs from north to south through the centre of the continent, roughly paralleled by the Adelaide-Darwin railway.

All passenger services have been suspended in Botswana, with the only remaining service being an international link to Zimbabwe from Francistown, the only railway station that is still in service.

There are 622 kilometres of railway in Burkina Faso, of which 517 km run from Ouagadougou to Abidjan, Côte d ' Ivoire ; and 105 km from Ouagadougou to Kaya.

At a meeting to inaugurate the Northern Corridor Transit Coordination Authority ( NCTCA ), the governments of Uganda and Burundi backed the proposed new railway from the Ugandan western railhead at Kasese into the DRC.

The rest of the link, from north Kent to St Pancras railway station in London, opened in 2007.

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It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

With the acquisition of Adtranz from DaimlerChrysler, Bombardier Transportation emerged as one of the largest manufacturers of railway rolling stock in the world.

Bodmin Parkway railway station is served by main line trains and is situated on the Cornish Main Line about 3½ miles ( 5½ km ) south-east from the town centre.

The railway brought granite stones from a rock quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, so that the Bunker Hill Monument could be erected in Boston.

The chapter 9 account of the Cheynes ' journey from San Diego to Boston is a classic of railway literature.

Boston remained something of a local railway hub well into the twentieth century, moving the produce of the district and the trade of the dock, plus the excursion trade to Skegness and similar places.

Boston railway station is served by East Midland Trains on the Poacher Line from Grantham to Skegness.

Hunnewell was named for Boston financier and railway owner H. H. Hunnewell.

Ice Collected from the Congamond lakes, was once stored in massive ice houses in blocks and delivered via railway for food storage from New York City to Boston before electric refrigerators were available for public purchase.

The passing of a later act for the railway also saw cannon celebrations but, on this occasion, a fitter at Boston Lodge, who was assisting with firing, lost the fingers of one hand in an accident.

Between Porthmadog Harbour station and Boston Lodge, the railway runs on the Cob, the dyke of the Traeth Mawr " polder ".

On the Boston side of the bridge, the line briefly transformed into an elevated railway, rising over Charles Circle and connecting to another tunnel dug through Beacon Hill to Park Street.

The Northeast Corridor ( commonly abbreviated as the NEC ) is a fully electrified railway line owned primarily by Amtrak serving the Northeast megalopolis of the United States from Boston in the north, via New York to Washington, D. C. in the south, with branches serving other cities.

By 1850, however, promoters of this project learned of plans by Boston interests to build a railway from Lake Champlain, to Ogdensburg, opposite Prescott, on the route of the projected Bytown & Prescott Railway.

A South Holland council nature reserve is situated on part of the old Boston railway line at Vernatts Drain.

The Macmillan Way heads through the town, finishing at Boston and there is also Torpel Way to Peterborough, which follows the railway line, entering Peterborough at Bretton.

The Pratt truss was patented in 1844 by two Boston railway engineers, Caleb Pratt and his son Thomas Willis Pratt.

Ownership of the railway was transferred from the private Boston Elevated Railway to the public Metropolitan Transit Authority ( MTA ) in 1947, reconstituted as the modern Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 1964.

In 1833, he was one of the founders of the Boston & Portland railway, which later changed its name to the Boston & Maine Railroad, and served as its director from 1834 to 1841.

E. R. Boston, was notable as a traction engine and light railway enthusiast and engineer who constructed the now-dismantled Cadeby Light Railway.

Tattershall railway station was a station on the line between Boston and Lincoln until closure.

The railway quickly mobilized aid, sending a dozen relief trains with fire and medical help from towns in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick on the day of the disaster followed two days later by help from the other parts of Canada and the United States, most notably Boston.

Permission was granted in 1880 for a nearly long railway from Mill Hill Park station to Hounslow Barracks, with stations at South Ealing, Boston Road and Spring Grove and agreement reached for the District to work the line.

* March 23 or 26-Cambridge Railroad street railway opens in Boston ( United States ), giving the city the world's oldest continuously working streetcar system.

The railway line between Boston and Skegness crosses to the north bank, and then follows the course of the river to below Wainfleet All Saints.

Croft Lane bridge is next, after which the A52 and the Boston to Skegness railway cross, and the relief channel rejoins Wainfleet Haven.