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A railway station on Brighton Road ( on the Birmingham to Bristol line ) led to further expansion, and the end of the 19th century saw a proliferation of high-density small terraced houses.
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In the railway station at Berlin, a uniformed attendant was chanting, ' Foreigners this way!!
* Aberdeen railway station
** Aberdeen railway station, New South Wales
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.
* 1980 – A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
* Asa Station, Japanese railway station in San ' yō-Onoda, Yamaguchi
The Abensberg railway station is located on the Danube Valley Railway from Regensburg to Ingolstadt.
In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.
* 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.
Also well-known and well worth seeing are the two remaining city gates, the Ponttor, one half mile northwest of the cathedral, and the Kleinmarschiertor, close to the central railway station.
Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.
* Aspatria railway station, the National Rail code for the train station in the United Kingdom
The early 1960s and 1970s ( up until his death in 1976 ) were marked by key works in Helsinki, in particular the huge town plan for the void in centre of Helsinki adjacent to Töölö Bay and the vast railway yards, and marked on the edges by significant buildings such as the National Museum and the main railway station, both by Eliel Saarinen.
* Altnabreac railway station ( National Rail code ), in Scotland
* Achnasheen railway station ( National Rail code: ACN ), a United Kingdom railway station
* 1906 – Central railway station, Sydney opens.
The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.
One now leads to Aberdour railway station, a beautifully kept and cared for example of a traditional station, in keeping with its role of transporting at least a quarter of the village's working population to their work each day.
railway and on
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.
In 1894, the first train on the Achill railway carried the bodies of victims of the Clew Bay Drowning.
In San Francisco, after the war, he obtained a patent on the cable car railway that still runs there.
He introduced the secret ballot ; advised the creation of the Supreme Court of Canada ; the establishment of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston in 1874 ; the creation of the Office of the Auditor General in 1878 ; and struggled to continue progress on the national railway.
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.
Abergavenny railway station opened 2 January 1854 and is on the Welsh Marches Line.
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.
There are regular bus services on the route and the town has a railway station on the rail line between Balloch and Glasgow Queen Street.
Some InterCityExpress and most InterCity trains call at Bonn Hauptbahnhof whilst the Siegburg / Bonn railway station is situated on the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed rail line outside of Bonn and serviced by InterCityExpress trains.
The Oresund Bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö consists of a four-lane highway on the upper level and a pair of railway tracks at the lower level.
The only direct enemy action that the site experienced was when 3 bombs, thought to have been intended for Bletchley railway station, were dropped on 20 – 21 November 1940.
Canal barges, towed by draft animals on an adjacent towpath, contended with the railway in the early industrial revolution, but were outcompeted in the carriage of high-value items due to the higher speed, falling costs, and route flexibility of rail.
The British Rail " double arrow " logo is formed of two interlocked arrows showing the direction of travel on a double track railway and was nicknamed " the arrow of indecision ".< ref >
It can be fixed in place, as on a cargo truck, mounted on a swivel, as on a railway carriage / car or locomotive, or sprung as in the suspension of a caterpillar tracked vehicle, or as an assembly in the landing gear of an aircraft.
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.
** Between Basel SBB and Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Basel Badischer Bahnhof, and all other railway property and stations on the right bank of the Rhine belong to DB and are classed as German customs territory.
railway and Brighton
The line was opened in two stages, from St Kilda railway station to Middle Brighton on 5 May 1906 and to Brighton Beach terminus on 22 December 1906.
** Montpelier Junction, the section of track outside Brighton railway station
Brighton railway station
Brighton seafront is the home of Volk's Electric Railway, the world's oldest electric railway.
Hove railway station has access to the Brighton main line and on to London without the need to go through Brighton.
Thameslink is a 50-station main-line route in the British railway system running north to south through London from Bedford to Brighton, serving both London Gatwick Airport and London Luton Airport.
The East London Railway was created by the East London Railway Company, a consortium of six railway companies: the Great Eastern Railway ( GER ), the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ), the London, Chatham and Dover Railway ( LCDR ), the South Eastern Railway ( SER ), the Metropolitan Railway, and the Metropolitan District Railway.
The two centres still, however, have separate characters, with the village green, parade of shops and mediaeval church giving a ' village ' feel to Old Coulsdon, while the Brighton Road and the railway give the old Smitham Bottom a bustling, busier atmosphere.
Mitcham had until recently never been well served by railway, due to its being equidistant between the historic lines of Waterloo to Southampton and London Bridge to Brighton.
Belmont railway station opened in May 1865 and was originally called ' California Station ', named after the California Arms public house on the opposite side of Brighton Road which was built by John Gibbons in approximately 1858.
* 1891: The new owners opened a horse racecourse ( Gatwick Racecourse ), beside the London – Brighton railway, and a dedicated station including sidings for horse boxes.
* September 1935: A new railway station called Gatwick served by two trains an hour on the Victoria – Brighton line opened.
It entailed diverting the A23 London – Brighton trunk road and the River Mole, and building the runway across the erstwhile racecourse site and rebuilding the former racecourse railway station alongside the new terminal.
With the development of the London to Brighton mainline railway, however, those in the business soon realised that transporting sheep by train was more cost effective and easier than using the old roadways.
The town is served by the coastal railway line between Ashford and Brighton and has three railway stations, including Cooden Beach, Collington, and Bexhill.
The railway built by the Brighton, Lewes and Hastings Railway ( later part of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ) arrived on 27 June 1846, although the present station was not built until 1891, when the town had become popular as a resort.
In 1845 parts of this section were sold to the London and Brighton railway company with another section being sold to the company in 1851.
The London Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ) constructed their own wharf and facilities on the east side of the river, and opened the Newhaven harbour railway station.
The station opened on 10 May 1847 by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway as ' Carshalton ' on the new Croydon to Epsom railway and was renamed to ' Wallington ' in 1868 when the new Carshalton railway station opened in Carshalton village.
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