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Forbes, however, emphasizes that the precipitous decline did not occur until after the First World War during the 1920s when new railway policies were implemented.
A gauge railway, known as the Camber Railway, was built along the north side of Stanley Harbour in 1915-1916 and used until the 1920s.
In the late 1920s, work began on the Thakhek – Tan Ap railway, that would have run between Thakhek, Khammuan Province and Tan Ap Railway Station, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam through the Mu Gia Pass.
The Johor-Singapore Causeway, built in the 1920s to connect Johor Bahru in Johor, Malaysia to Woodlands in Singapore, carries a road and a railway line.
An example of the abandonment of mixed race children in the 1920s is given in a report by Walter Baldwin Spencer that many mixed-descent children born during construction of The Ghan railway were abandoned at early ages with no one to provide for them.
In the United Kingdom, several railway companies were using similar containers by the beginning of the 20th century and in the 1920s the Railway Clearing House standardized the RCH container.
He first came in contact with Marxist literature in the 1920s through his work as a railway clerk.
The line has a complicated history, and the current complex arrangement of two northern branches, two central branches and the southern branch reflects its genesis as three separate railway companies that were combined in the 1920s and 1930s.
File: PaulinenhofFFO. jpg | The Paulinenhof settlement, built in the 1920s for railway employees
When it was built in the 1920s, it was one of the largest railway car repair shops in the United States.
Though this railway ceased operations in the late 1920s, proximity to Columbus continued to spur growth and the village became a city on November 16, 1959.
The 1920s structure once served as a railway hotel.
The Welsh Highland line was almost totally dependent on tourism which proved slow to develop, because firstly, of two slumps in the early 1920s and early 1930s ; secondly, the rise of road traffic including ' charabancs '; thirdly the unreliability of the railway with its ( even then ) ancient carriages and increasingly decrepit locomotives.
Initially this development was as a consequence of the extension of the railway to the town in the 1880s, subsequently the promotion of Metroland during the 1920s and the electrification of the Metropolitan Line in the 1960s.
Between the late 1920s and the early 1960s, some South Australian railway maintenance gangs working in country areas where they were required to live on-site, were accommodated in caravans built by the department instead of the tents they had previously used.
The CNR stations had been created in the 1920s to provide broadcasting for railway passengers.
From the 1920s to the 1960s, the railway also carried gold concentrate and bullion from the Bridge River goldfield towns of Bralorne and Pioneer Mine, which were trucked out of the goldfield area over the high Mission Pass to the railway at Shalalth.
In the United Kingdom containers were first standardised by the Railway Clearing House ( RCH ) in the 1920s, allowing both railway owned and privately owned vehicles to be carried on standard container flats.
The station was opened on 18 December 1890 as part of the first deep-level tube railway, the City and South London Railway ( C & SLR ), and was rebuilt in the 1920s when the tunnels were enlarged.
The bowler, called a bombín in Spanish, has been worn by Quechua and Aymara women since the 1920s, when it was introduced to Bolivia by British railway workers.
In the late 1920s transportation switched away from the railway but the industry continued to burgeon with many companies producing high-quality furniture ; McNeil Bros, specialised in board room and library fittings, Stevenson and Higgins made lift cages, which were fitted in many hotels and department stores, Balfours were for a number of years the main manufacturers of mantlepieces in Scotland, some were designed in the elegant style, and required the expert skill of woodcarvers.
The railway aims to preserve the line as near as possible to how it was in the first three decades of its existence, but with particular emphasis on the early 1920s.
The area called Norris Green was a farming estate and its stretched as far as stone bridge house to the north and Norris Green Farm ( opposite the junction of Hornspit Lane and Almonds Green ) to the south-The sale boundary in 1920s consisted of the railway, Carr Lane, Dwerryhouse Lane and Hornspit Lane.

1920s and lines
They can be considered the successors of early telephotography input devices, which were able to send consecutive scan lines as analog amplitude modulation signals through standard telephonic lines to appropriate receivers ; such systems were in use in press since the 1920s to the mid 1990s.
In the early 1920s George O. Squier was granted patents for a system for the transmission and distribution of signals over electrical lines which was the technical basis for what later became muzak, a technology streaming continuous music to commercial customers without the use of radio.
: Artistic style of the 1920s, recognisable by its symmetrical designs and straight lines.
In 1972, with new technology becoming available, Yale sent the map for chemical analysis by forensic specialist Walter McCrone whose team, using a variety of techniques, found that the yellowish lines contain anatase ( titanium dioxide ) in a rounded crystalline form manufactured for use in pale pigments since the 1920s, indicating that the ink was modern.
Until the 1920s, all that survived of Ibycus ' work were two large-ish fragments ( one seven, the other thirteen lines long ) and about fifty other lines scraped together from a variety of ancient commentaries.
Following Burges ' death, further areas of the castle were developed along the lines he had set, culminating in the Animal Wall, which was not completed until the 1920s by the third Marquess ' son, the fourth Marquess.
In the early 1920s, subdivision activity along inter-city trolley lines led to a building spurt in Palmer Township, which doubled the population within 10 years.
It was also used in Baird's experimental transmissions using 30 lines in the 1920s.
Service patterns continued to change, especially with the opening of tram lines over Blackfriars Bridge on 14 September 1909, and during the 1920s it was realised that to remain profitable the subway needed to be able to take double-deck trams.
In the late 1920s, volume sellers Hudson and Studebaker introduced straight-8 engines for the premium vehicles in their respective lines.
It resolved the debate between those who urged greater government control of speech for reasons of security and those who favored allowing as much speech as possible and relying on the marketplace of ideas to reach a favorable result, leaving the law in a state along the lines of that which Justices Louis Brandeis, and, post-Schenck, Oliver Wendell Holmes advocated in several dissents and concurrences during the late 1910s and early 1920s.
The original technical basis for Muzak was developed by inventor Major General George O. Squier who, in the early 1920s, was granted several US patents related to transmission of information signals, among them a system for the transmission and distribution of signals over electrical lines.
The lines were built in the 1890s and 1900s and ran until the 1920s.
In CN's case, some of these branch lines were those it had been forced to absorb through federal government policies and outright patronage, while others were from the heady expansion era of rural branchlines in the 1920s and early 1930s and were considered obsolete following the development of local road networks.
Chauvel was further encouraged along these lines by Bess Meredyth who had made a number of films in Australia in the 1920s.
The format continued to vary in the 1920s, usually along the lines of Amateurs v. Professionals, including one year ( 1927 ) where the Professionals were represented by the FA Cup holders Cardiff City and the Amateurs by the Corinthians.
Until the 1920s, most shipping lines relied heavily on emigration for passengers and they were hard hit when the US Congress introduced a bill to limit immigration into the United States.
Some corps in the 1920s added D crooks on some horns in order to play more complicated songs in two lines, similar to a handbell ensemble.
In Western North Carolina, seven bronze plaques on granite pillars placed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the late 1920s mark the route of the Dixie Highway ( and honor General Robert E. Lee ); these markers can be found in the towns of Hot Springs, Marshall, Asheville, Fletcher and Hendersonville, and on the NC / SC and NC / TN state lines.
With the opening of the Victoria Line on 23 July 1971, parallel cross-platform interchanges were provided between the two lines in both directions and the 1920s surface buildings were replaced by a modern structure.
Electrification began in earnest for local railways in the 1920s and main lines electrification began following World War II using a universal 1, 500V DC standard and eventually, a 20kV standard for rapid intercity main lines ( this is often overlaying 1, 500V DC lines ) and a 25kV AC standard for high-speed Shinkansen lines ).

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