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Initially trains had to be ferried across the river between Marquette and Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in order to continue their journey, but this system came to an end when Prairie du Chien businessman John Lawler had a permanent pontoon bridge built to connect the two cities ' rail lines.
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Initially, the Bulgarian government, which he controlled, utilized Swiss diplomatic channels to inquire whether possible deportations of the Jews can happen to British-controlled Palestine by ships rather than to concentration camps in Poland by trains, for which the Germans requested a significant amount of money.
Initially the service was provided entirely by London to Brighton stopping services, but more trains began to call with the introduction of the summer timetable in June 1958.
Initially the station was served by trains from both companies as part of circular Inner Circle service but various operational patterns have been used during the station's life.
Initially, shuttle trains operated to Holborn from the eastern platform into the through platform at Holborn.
Initially, trains from both companies served the station on the Inner Circle service but other operational patterns have been used.
Initially Caltrain rejected this idea because some trains are operated at seated capacity and the seat removal would take space from other fare-paying passengers.
Initially designed for one-car DLR trains, Shadwell's platform underwent extension to two-car operation in 1991.
Initially passengers could travel only to Victoria, but by 1869 direct services were available to the City of London, King's Cross, Kingston ( via Wimbledon ) and Kent, including express trains to Dover Harbour for boat trains to continental Europe.
Initially, all trains through this section were run as Yellow Line trains terminating at Huntington.
Initially trains ran as shuttle services between Central and Bondi Junction ; it was not until a year later that work was finished to integrate the lines.
Initially launched in 1969, the Duplo range has gone on to include sets with figures, cars, houses and trains.
Initially applied to services operated by British Rail Mark 3 trains, it was later extended to include all services not part of the Dublin Suburban Rail network.
Initially the Metropolitan Railway operated all services before the District introduced its own trains in 1871.
Initially the service was two trains an hour to Mansion House, supplemented from 1 April by two trains an hour to High Street Kensington.
Initially the only two ways for trains to arrange such interactions was to somehow arrange it in advance or provide a communications link between the authority for train movements ( the dispatcher ) and the trains themselves.
Initially the R Stock trains were painted red, to match the O, P and Q38 Stock trains, but one eight-car train of R49 stock was left unpainted, as an experiment.
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Initially the White House reaction was that the bitter exchanges with Moscow over Cuba and the conflict in Laos had dampened prospects for a meeting.
Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.
Initially, ice on the wings was blamed, but a later inquiry declared that slush on the runway had made a safe take-off almost impossible.
Initially the frigate squadron was mistaken for French warships and chased away by Swiftsure, returning the following day once the error had been realised.
Initially, the M-19 attracted a degree of attention and sympathy from mainstream Colombians that the FARC and National Liberation Army ( ELN ) had found largely elusive earlier due to extravagant and daring operations, such as stealing a sword that had belonged to Colombia's Independence hero Simon Bolívar.
Initially it was a supporting material publication for White Bear and Red Moon but for its 11th issue, in 1981, it had become the official RuneQuest magazine.
Initially formed to fight against counter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, as well as financial speculators, Cheka had its own classifications.
Initially, the systems brought American stations to viewers in Canada who had no Canadian stations to watch ; broadcast television, though begun late in 1952 in Toronto and Montreal, did not reach a majority of cities until 1954.
Initially the Court took a restrictive view on what consisted of torture, preferring to find that states had inflicted inhuman and degrading treatment.
Initially Sorel had officially been a revisionist of Marxism, but by 1910 announced his abandonment of socialist literature and claimed in 1914, using an aphorism of Benedetto Croce that " socialism is dead " because of the " decomposition of Marxism ".
Initially, little drastic change in government policy had occurred and repressive police actions were limited.
Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles.
Initially a kingdom, the Roman Republic was founded in 509 BC, and would grow steadily over the next several centuries until it had supplanted Greek culture as the dominant Mediterranean civilization.
Initially, Germany hoped to transform Poland into a satellite state, but by March 1939 German demands had been rejected by the Poles three times, which led Hitler to decide, with enthusiastic support from Ribbentrop, upon the destruction of Poland as the main German foreign policy goal of 1939.
Initially Britain had supported the anti-communist factions in those countries, but due to its dire economic condition it decided to pull out and in February 1947 requested the U. S. to continue its efforts.
Initially its spread was confined to PARC and a few universities to which Xerox had donated some Altos.
Initially, Henry refused to see Beatrice, but eventually he had her imprisoned in rough conditions ; the young Frederick was treated more appropriately, but he died in Henry's custody nonetheless ( the rumours that he was murdered are baseless ).
Initially this was done because it was easier to provide good insulation for the secondary winding of an external coil than it was in a coil buried in the construction of the magneto ( early magnetos had the coil assembly externally to the rotating parts to make them easier to insulate — at the expense of efficiency ).
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