Before electrification, the route was a difficult one, since there are two summits on its 74¼-mile ( 120 km ) run.

Before electrification, British Rail services often did not stop at Waterbeach, or if they did stops would be unofficial.

Before electrification, services were normally operated by InterCity ( latterly Network SouthEast ) locomotive-hauled trains, normally pulling British Rail Mark 2b coaches ( many services featured restaurant cars ).

Before electrification in 1992, InterCity ( latterly Network SouthEast ) locomotives operated most services, normally pulling British Rail Mark 2b coaches.

Before 1900, the trams were horse-drawn ; that year, the process of electrification began.

Before Wiseman's publication, Thiele had determined from the biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem occurred in the spring of 597 BC, while other scholars, including Albright, more frequently dated the event to 598 BC.

Before the snap of the ball, in the American game, backfield players may only move parallel to the line of scrimmage, only one back may be in motion at any given time, and if forward motion has occurred, the back must be still for a full second before the snap.

* Before the Industrial Revolution, most manufacturing occurred in rural areas, where household-based manufacturing served as a supplemental subsistence strategy to agriculture ( and continues to do so in places ).

Before modern disaster management, when floods occurred, some of the population might initially die from drowning but then many more would suffer from the ensuing famine and spread of diseases.

Before the 1940s minor changes occurred in the uniform.

I used to be red when I'd play in front of people because I believed they were looking at my hand, which they probably weren't ... Before my accident with my finger occurred, my oldest brother was killed in a car accident and two weeks afterward my younger sister had her big toe cut off.

Before 1850 most of Clatsop County's government activity occurred in Lexington, a community located where Warrenton is now.

Before the outbreak of the First World War work was undertaken at Chepstow, Bodiam, Caernarfon and Tattershal ; after the end of the war various major state funded restoration projects occurred in the 1920s with Pembroke, Caerphilly and Goodrich amongst the largest of these.

Before the core of a light water nuclear reactor can be damaged, two precursor events must have already occurred:

Before the vaccine to rubella was introduced in 1969, widespread outbreaks usually occurred every 6 – 9 years in the United States and 3 – 5 years in Europe, mostly affecting children in the 5-9 year old age group.

Before development occurred most rainfall soaked into the ground and contributed to groundwater recharge or was recycled into the atmosphere by vegetation through evapotranspiration.

Before the reform of the rite by Pope Pius XII, the blessing of the palms occurred inside the church within a service that followed the general outline of a Mass, with Collect, Epistle and Gospel, as far as the Sanctus.

The Beringian land bridge is believed to have existed both in the glaciation that occurred before 35, 000 Before Present ( BP ) and during the more recent period 22, 000-7, 000 years BP.

Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries Bristol was within the Diocese of Worcester, and it was under the care of Bishop John Carpenter of Worcester ( d. 1476 ) that his transformation to the clergy occurred.

Before the local protein synthesis hypothesis gained significant support, there was general agreement that the protein synthesis underlying L-LTP occurred in the cell body.

Before being introduced in the 1997 season, matchups between teams in the American League and National League only occurred during spring training, the All-Star Game, other exhibition games such as the Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown, New York, and the World Series.

Before Wiseman's publication of the Babylonian Chronicles in 1956, Thiele had determined from Biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem and its king Jeconiah occurred in the spring of 597 BC, whereas Kenneth Strand points out that other scholars, including Albright, more frequently dated the event to 598 BC.

Before this occurred, the sides settled.

Before Kudirka's death, the first performance of the poem occurred at a concert in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1899.

Before this division occurred, the Ottomans implemented the millet system, which segregated peoples within the Ottoman Empire based on religion.

Before the meeting at the church, the most controversial incident in Clark's career occurred.

An interesting meteorological occurrence was the first snowfall, which occurred on July 8, 1994 in Pelotas from 11: 00 am to 1: 30 pm Before this date, there had never been any record of snow in the city.

Before 1852, the president of the Ohio State Senate would serve as acting governor if a vacancy in the governorship occurred.

Before 2004 no privately operated manned spaceflight had ever occurred.

Before adjournment Monday afternoon, the Senate is expected to approve a study of the number of legislators allotted to rural and urban areas to determine what adjustments should be made.

Before 1940 Finland was a poor rural nation of urban and rural workers and independent farmers.

Before consolidation of many of these rural school districts in the last half of the twentieth century, Indiana high schools had fewer students than those of most other states ; basketball was a natural game for these schools since it only required five starters and a few reserves.

Before 1971, a municipality could be called a town ( stad ), a köping or a rural municipality ( landskommun ); present municipalities which used to be towns are still commonly called towns.

Before the revolution, state penetration of the rural areas was limited by the power of local notables, but under Nasser, land reform reduced their socioeconomic dominance, and the incorporation of peasants into cooperatives transferred mass dependence from landlords to government.

Before the early 20th century, Oegstgeest had a rural character and did not have a centre of population.

Before the advent of radio, entertainment in the rural areas relied to a large extent on stage performances by folk singers.

Before the occupation of the area of the island by ' chácaras ' - rural residences, and subsequently by urbanization, there was a vast flooded land covered by mangroves, the native Atlantic Forest, and coastal vegetation.

Before the railway came the area was rural and specialised in growing lavender ; Lavender Hill is to the east of the station.

( Before we encounter him in the novel, before the sunstroke, Anse had cleared his own farm and fixed up a house on his own so that he could start building a family, and all of these characteristics are consistent with common maladies suffered by rural farmers in harsh conditions )

Before 1820, South Shields was a predominantly sparse hamlet and village based rural economy with some small-scale shipbuilding, glass making and salt processing along the riverside.

Before 1870, the area which later became Clydebank was largely rural, and agricultural.

Before World War II and on through much of the 1940 the Quebec government did not plough the rural roads around Valcourt and elsewhere in the province.

Before the introduction of rural free delivery ( RFD ) by the U. S. Post Office in 1896, and in Canada in 1908, many rural residents had no access to the mail unless they collected it at a post office located many miles from their homes or hired a private express company to deliver it.

Before the end of World War II, Shard End was completely rural with the only buildings being farmhouses, farm outbuildings and tithe cottages.

Before formal recognition as a modern breed in 1943, the type had been kept separate from other dogs as an undocumented breed for centuries in the rural province of Drenthe.

Before the 19th century the area that is now Nether Edge was largely rural, the only clusters of cottages being the small medieval hamlet of Cherry Tree Hill and a small hamlet at Machon Bank.

Before 1850 a lightly populated rural farming area, Llwynypia experienced a population boom between 1860 and 1920 with the sinking of several coal mines after the discovery of large coal deposits throughout the Rhondda Valleys.

Before the comarca was called simply Roda ; it took the name of Roda de Ter in late 20th century when the municipality was split into Roda de Ter ( the town ) and Masies de Roda ( the rural zone ).

Before his election to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, Dr. Cheema was a family doctor in Surrey ; he has also practised medicine in Winnipeg and rural Manitoba.

Before this point, the company was a grocer in the vein of Piggly Wiggly, where a mix of rural and urban stores made up the company in general.