Before railway construction on the Continent demanded huge quantities of maleable iron mainly for rails, for which low quality iron sufficed, Wallonia was the only Continental region to follow the British model successfully.

Before that, AK units carried out thousands of raids, intelligence operations, bombed hundreds of railway shipments, participated in many clashes and battles with the German police and Wehrmacht units and conducted tens of thousands of acts of sabotage against German industry The AK also conducted " punitive " operations to assassinate Gestapo officials responsible for Nazi terror.

Before December 2009 it had a circular route around the centre of London on the north side of the River Thames linking the main line railway termini.

Before Peckham Rye railway station was opened in 1865 the area had developed around two centres: north and south.

Before the coming of the railway, with the opening of the Bexleyheath Line on 1 May 1895, Welling was a village on the main road between London and Kent ( Watling Street ).

Before the Beeching Axe the town had a number of railway stations and a direct link to London down the east coast.

Before the bridge was built a series of paddle steamers operated from the oddly-named Corporation Pier railway station at the Victoria Pier in Hull to the railway pier in New Holland.

Before the second and third endings, the narrator — who the novelist wants the reader to believe is John Fowles himself — appears as a minor character sharing a railway compartment with Charles.

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

Before the construction of the Jungfraujoch railway tunnel, the approach from the glaciers on the south side was very long.

Before the lease of operations to CN, the railway transported over 120, 000 carloads of lumber, pulp, woodchips, and other forest products per year.

Before the Second World War, a railway was built from San Marino to Rimini under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini.

Before State Highway 1 and the railway were built the latter road was the main route in or out of what was then an extremely isolated community.

Before the establishment of the railway, the bulk of farming produce ( wool ) had to be transported east by horse and bullock cart to Napier, from where it was exported.

Before 1955, the railway ran from Linwood to Mulgrave where a ferry service operated to Point Tupper.

Before January 1, 2008, this line was called Gunsan Line which connected the major railway junction of Iksan ( on the Honam Line ) to the city of Gunsan.

Before the railway line was built, the area was in originally known as Woronora with the first local post office opening on 16 May 1883 followed quickly by the local school on 16 April 1884.

Before the Caledonian railway, the quickest journey between Glasgow and London would have been Glasgow to Liverpool by sea and then Liverpool to London by train.

Before the construction of the Gippsland railway line, Narre Warren North was actually the location of the Narre Warren township.

Before conversion of the Melbourne-Adelaide railway to standard gauge in 1995, Mount Gambier was connected to Adelaide on the broad gauge network via Naracoorte, Bordertown and Tailem Bend.

Before it was decommissioned in 1932 as a cost-saving measure by a state Labor Government, Northmead featured a train line known as the Rogans Hill railway line.

Before the coming of the railway, the Berkel was a major shipping route for goods from Münster to Eibergen, Borculo, and Zutphen, transported in flat-bottomed boats called Berkelzompen.

Before the turn of the century, several railway companies had run their rail lines into the city and several had begun to build railway stations.

Before entering the service, Pfaff for five years did clerical work with a general merchandising and wholesale firm in New Orleans.

Before the invention of electronic amplifiers, mechanically coupled carbon microphones were also used as amplifiers in telephone repeaters for long distance service.

Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail. com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by Garfield. com, online home of the comic strip Garfield.

These were interrupted by service in the U. S. Army Signal Corps during World War II, where he worked as a codebreaker and participated in the landing at Casablanca. Before leaving for Europe in 1943, Greenberg married Selma Berkowitz, whom he had met during his first year at Columbia.

Before the introduction of postage stamps, mail in the UK was paid for by the recipient, a system that was associated with an irresolvable problem: the costs of delivering mail were not recoverable by the postal service when recipients were unable or unwilling to pay for delivered items, and senders had no incentive to restrict the number, size, or weight of items sent, whether or not they would ultimately be paid for.

Before it is registered, it is common practice ( with some legal standing ) to use the service mark symbol ℠ ( a superscript SM ).

Before the beginning of the Syrian uprising / civil war, the obligatory military service period was being decreased over time.

Before the Divine Liturgy on this day, a special service, known as the " Triumph of Orthodoxy " is held in cathedrals and major monasteries, at which the synodicon ( containing anathemas against various heresies, and encomia of those who have held fast to the Christian faith ) is proclaimed.

Before his war service with the Royal Air Force, he starred as Professor Higgins in a YMCA production of Pygmalion.

Before the marching commences, the members of the Royal Family and public sing the national anthem before the Royal Delegation lead out after the main service.

Before the Act was implemented he theorized that after a multitude of bankruptcies and mergers there would only be two or three major carriers and a very small number of medium and local service airlines.

Before this aircraft were put into service under their manufacturers designation.

Before he retired from federal service in 1907, Reeves had arrested over 3, 000 felons.

* 30 May 1958: Before the official opening, Transair operated the first commercial air service from the new Gatwick ; a Jersey Airlines de Havilland Heron was the first scheduled aircraft to arrive at the newly reconstructed airport.

Before public electric service was available, a diesel powered generator fed street lights ( and some homes?

Before the rise of large ship companies on Lake Michigan, service was done primarily by owner-operated boats.

Before that, Fair Grove didn't have any High Speed Internet providers-many residents and businesses had to get their Internet via satellite or they had to have Dial-Up service.

Before 1522 he entered the service of Cardinal Wolsey as gentleman-usher, and stayed in his service until Wolsey's death in 1529.

Before Christmas Eve, Mohr brought the words to Gruber and asked him to compose a melody and guitar accompaniment for the church service.

Before his Senate service, Faircloth was a prominent and wealthy hog farmer.

The second part of the prayer Te lucis ante terminum ( Before the Ending of the Day ) said during the late evening Compline service, part of the Liturgy of the Hours, might refer to nocturnal emissions and their supposed connection to erotic dreams:

Before F. Sozzini's arrival in Poland there had been a wide range of positions from the total otherworldiness, common property, and withdrawal from the state of Marcin Czechowic of Lublin through to the advocacy of military service by Symon Budny.

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.

Before entering the French service, Luckner had spent time in the Bavarian, Dutch and Hanoverian armies.