Thompson, originally named John Scott Thompson after his uncle and later changed for the stage, was born in North Bay, Ontario and grew up in Brampton.

* Brampton Township, Sargent County, North Dakota

Scarborough, North York and East York in Toronto continue to be popular settling places for Filipinos, while the municipalities of Mississauga, Brampton, Markham, Vaughan, Pickering, Ajax, Richmond Hill and Oakville are becoming increasingly popular destinations.

North of Brampton, the freeway connects to Highway 10, which continues north through Caledon as a four lane arterial road.

Spina was elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1995, defeating incumbent Liberal Carman McClelland by just over 5, 000 votes in the riding of Brampton North.

William Howard School is host to " Brampton Live " every summer, an ever-growing music festival that has, since its first appearance in 1995, become the largest folk / roots / world music festival in the North of England.

He did not seek office again until the 1987 provincial election, when he was easily elected in Brampton North as part of a Liberal landslide victory.

The district was created as " Brampton — Malton " in 1987 from Brampton — Georgetown and Mississauga North.

Brampton North is a former provincial electoral district in Ontario.

* Barnehurst, Brampton, Christchurch, Colyers, Crayford, Danson Park, North End, St Michael ’ s

* Alconbury and The Stukeleys, Brampton, Buckden, Fenstanton, Godmanchester, Gransden and The Offords, Huntingdon East, Huntingdon North, Huntingdon West, Kimbolton and Staughton, Little Paxton, St Ives East, St Ives South, St Ives West, St Neots Eaton Ford, St Neots Eaton Socon, St Neots Eynesbury, St Neots Priory Park, and The Hemingfords all from the Huntingdonshire district.

It was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between Brampton — Halton Hills, Mississauga North and Mississauga South ridings.

Julien Christian Lutz attended both Mayfield Secondary School and North Park Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario.

The GER's successor, the London and North Eastern Railway, renamed the station Brampton ( Suffolk ) on 1 June 1928.

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.

It is the oldest railway tunnel beneath a city street in North America.

In 1883, the standardized system of North American Time Zones was adopted by the general time convention of railway managers in Chicago.

* 1953 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.

The start of the 20th century also saw the opening of a short lived railway station on the Drumcondra and North Dublin Link Railway line from Glasnevin Junction to Connolly Station ( then Amiens Street ).

By the end of the 20th century, almost the only steam power still in regular use in North America and Western European countries was on heritage railways largely aimed at tourists and / or railroad hobbyists, known as ' railfans ' or ' railway enthusiasts ', although some narrow gauge lines in Germany which form part of the public transport system, running to all-year-round timetables retain steam for all or part of their motive power.

In 2007, the Laotian Ministry of Transportation entered into discussion with Vietnam to discuss the possibility of opening a new railway line from Thakhek in Laos through the Mu Gia Pass to Tan Ap Railway Station in Vietnam's Quang Binh Province, on the North – South Railway.

Newton Heath initially played on a field on North Road, close to the railway yard ; the original capacity was about 12, 000, but club officials deemed the facilities inadequate for a club hoping to join The Football League.

On May 2006 TransTeleCom Company and North Korea ’ s Ministry of Communications have signed an agreement for the construction and joint operation of a fiber-optic transmission line ( FOTL ) in the section of the Khasan – Tumangang railway checkpoint.

Oland (, North Frisian: Ualöönist ) is a small hallig which is connected by a narrow gauge railway to the mainland and to hallig Langeneß.

On May 2006 TransTeleCom Company and North Korea ’ s Ministry of Communications have signed an agreement for the construction and joint operation of a fiber-optic transmission line ( FOTL ) in the section of the Khasan – Tumangang railway checkpoint.

The railway post office | RPO section of the Pioneer ZephyrIn response to Armstrong's request to experiment with the concept, the first railway post office ( RPO ) began operating on the Chicago and North Western Railway between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, on August 28, 1864.

Paul Simon was inspired to write " Homeward Bound " while waiting at Ditton railway station on the outskirts of Widnes in North West England.

It is a testament to Scott's contribution in creating a unified identity for Scotland that Edinburgh's central railway station, opened in 1854 by the North British Railway, is called Waverley.

There are also stub tunnels at North Sydney railway station for a never constructed Manly to Mona Vale line.

* July 25 – The East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway in the North West of England, is opened between Bury and Ramsbottom.

The main railway station is Gara de Nord (" North Station "), which provides connections to all major cities in Romania as well as international destinations:

The city also has five other railway stations run by CFR, most important are Basarab ( in proximity of North Station ), Obor, Baneasa, Progresu, which are in the process of being integrated in a commuter railway serving Bucharest and the surrounding Ilfov county.

In 1886, Yerkes and his business partners used a complex financial deal to take over the North Chicago Street Railway and then proceeded to follow this with a string of further take-overs until he controlled a majority of the city's street railway systems on the north and west sides.

For the countries in North America and Australasia, great numbers of laborers were needed in the dangerous tasks of gold mining and railway construction.

The North Norfolk Railway ( NNR )– also known as the " Poppy Line " – is a heritage steam railway in Norfolk, England, running between the coastal town of Sheringham and Holt, It cuts through the countryside to the east of Weybourne with views of its windmill and passes through the well preserved country station which also houses a locomotive shed together with a carriage maintenance and restoration centre.

Llandaf railway station is actually located in Llandaff North.

The national railway network uses mainly metre gauge, although there are several standard gauge and mixed gauge lines in the North of the country.

The increased time gained by issuing accurate warnings of severe weather will be crucial to save lives, for instance by evacuating a large number of people from endangered areas ( e. g. storm surges in the North Sea ), or taking cautionary actions to avoid major threats to goods and services ( e. g. extreme winds ).

Because of its wide range of latitude and seasonal winds, Japan has a variety of climates, with a latitude range often compared to that of the east coast of North America, from Nova Scotia to the U. S. state of Georgia.

The North Equatorial Current, driven westward along latitude 15 ° N by the trade winds, turns north near the Philippines to become the warm Japan or Kuroshio Current.

The North American Monsoon occurs during the summer, and can bring torrential downpours, severe thunderstorms ( with high winds and hail ) and sometimes even tornadoes.

From there, Celebration Avenue passes the North Village, splits the Celebration golf course, winds through a few down-town shops and schools, and then proceeds into the parks and homes in the newer sections of Celebration.

After the passage of a cold front, winds tend to switch to the northwest, and a frequent pattern is for a long-lasting low-pressure area to form over the Canadian Maritimes, which may pull cold northwestern air across the Great Lakes for a week or more, commonly identified with the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation ( NAO ).

This explains why, whereas corresponding latitudes of North America were fully glaciated during glacial periods of the Quaternary, Manchuria, though even colder, always remained too dry to form glaciers – a state of affairs enhanced by stronger westerly winds from the surface of the ice sheet in Europe.

Southerly winds can also be mild ( esp if they come from the Mediterranean or North Africa ) but can also be chilly if coming from mainland Europe.

Because of its location Georgetown ’ s temperatures is moderated by the North-East trade winds blowing in from the North Atlantic and rarely sees temperatures above 31 degrees Celsius.

Precipitation is heavy, owing to the strong onshore winds in summer and the high frequency of North Pacific storms affecting the island in the autumn.

The American Indian four winds teachings may also have Christian cross teachings linked to Nestorian Missons or visitors to North America, as well as Irish Church monks and / or a Polish / Dane Colony before Columbus in the present location of the Maritimes of Canada and Northeastern U. S. Source: National Christian Association: nationalchristianassociation. bravehost. com

Tromp gathered a fleet of 96 ships to attack Ayscue but winds from the south kept him in the North Sea.

* In the North " are the ehecatagat, the lord of the winds, and the miquitagat, the lord of death.

To counter the force of the North Sea and the winds off it, H. Rider Haggard sloped the cliff on the edge of his property and experimented with growing Marram Grass upon it.

The Appalachian Trail winds through town, passing between Tully and North Mountains through the downtown area.

Heerhugowaard has a cool oceanic climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfb ), strongly influenced by its proximity to the North Sea to the west, with prevailing north-western winds and gales.

Although the soil of the North China Plain is fertile, the weather is unpredictable, being at the intersection of humid winds from the Pacific and dry winds from the interior of the Asian continent.

The two dominant influences on the climate of the Whitby area are shelter against the worst of the moist westerly winds provided by the North York Moors and the proximity of the North Sea.

The North Esk River starts in the Northallerton Valley in Tasmania's north-east mountains and winds its way to Launceston via the Corra Linn Gorge at White Hills.

Howling Arctic winds that produced coastal wind chills as low as and the burany, or blinding snowstorms of the steppe, were climatic manifestations of the USSR's close proximity to the North Pole and remoteness from oceans that tended to moderate the climate.

It made landfall in Cape Fear, North Carolina with winds of on September 16.

Farewell Spit, in the North West corner of the South Island is believed to be caused by the strong prevailing winds and currents bringing sand eroded from the Southern Alps of the South Island and depositing these into Golden Bay.

It faces east, away from the prevailing winds, which together with the North Atlantic Drift gives it a mild climate allowing the Cordyline australis palm or cabbage tree to prosper.