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Salisbury and railway
* Salisbury railway station, Adelaide
* Salisbury railway station, Brisbane
* Salisbury, Victoria, a crossing loop on the Melbourne-Adelaide railway
Salisbury railway station serves the city, and is the crossing point between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line, making it a regional interchange.
Axminster railway station is on the West of England Main Line that runs from Exeter via Salisbury to London Waterloo.
Lord Salisbury, who was chairman of Great Eastern in 1870, described the Liverpool Street extension as " one of the greatest mistakes ever committed in connection with a railway.
The nearest railway station is located at nearby Grateley, on the London to Salisbury line.
Running approximately parallel both to the coast of the Solent and to the A27, the M27 starts as an eastwards continuation of the A31 from Bournemouth and Poole, meets the A36 from Salisbury, crosses the Wessex Main Line railway, and then meets the M271 to central Southampton.
Andover was linked to Basingstoke and thus to London by railway when the Andover junction station was opened on 3 July 1854 ; this railway also linking the town to Salisbury.
Verwood once housed its own railway station served by the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway.
The Southern railway covered a large territory in south-west England including Weymouth, Plymouth, Salisbury and Exeter, where it was in competition with the Great Western Railway ( GWR ).
Local landowners then set up a company to complete the railway link between Basingstoke and Salisbury.
The local travel links are located from the village to Salisbury railway station and to Bournemouth International Airport.
Until 1964, the village was served by a railway station named Daggons Road, situated to the west of the village, and on a line connecting to Fordingbridge and Salisbury to the north, and Verwood and Wimborne to the south.
West Moors rose to local prominence with the building of the Southampton and Dorchester and Salisbury and Dorset Junction railway lines in the late 19th century and, although main line services were later diverted via Bournemouth, West Moors railway station was served by a branch line railway until 4 May 1964.
The town is an important junction point on the railway network, as it lies at the point where the main line railway from London to the Exeter and the West Country intersects the cross country line from South Wales, Bristol, Bath and Chippenham to Salisbury, Southampton, Portsmouth and Brighton.
* June 30-24 passengers and 4 railwaymen die as the result of the Salisbury rail crash on the London and South Western Railway of England when an express train passes through Salisbury railway station at excessive speed.
The suburb is also linked to Salisbury railway station and the Brisbane CBD by bus route 110.
Ludgershall railway station closed in 1961 along with the northern section of the Midland and South Western Junction Railway to Swindon, the southern section to Andover remains open to allow the British Army to transport tanks and other equipment to and from the depot and onwards to Salisbury Plain.

Salisbury and station
The nearest Met Office weather station to Salisbury is Boscombe Down, about 6 miles to the north of the city centre.
Commuter rail service is available via the Salisbury Mills-Cornwall train station, operated by NJ Transit, and several other nearby stations on Metro North Railroad.
This takes in the rural, rolling countryside between the mountain and Salisbury Mills, where Storm King Art Center is located and the Moodna Viaduct, the highest and longest railroad trestle east of the Mississippi River, spans the valley between Schunemunk and the Salisbury Mills-Cornwall station on the Metro-North Port Jervis Line.
Part of a godown ( warehouse ) next to the site of the present day Star Ferry pier in Tsim Sha Tsui was rented and converted into a passenger station with rails to it laid down Salisbury Road from Signal Hill.
* WMDT-DT2, a television station ( channel 47 digital ) licensed to Salisbury, Maryland, United States, using the fictional call sign WBD-TV
However both the Salisbury breakfast show and Acrebury were discontinued as part of a virtual relaunch of the station in 2000.
Darebin is located between Heidelberg Road and Salisbury Avenue, with station access from both.
Afterwards he commanded the Salisbury on the same station, as flag-captain to Vice-admiral Milbanke.
The Metro-North Salisbury Mills-Cornwall station sits near the north end of the viaduct.
The station takes its name from the spire of Salisbury Cathedral.
The DCR trains used the Salisbury & Yeovil Railway station on the main line.
The difference in levels between the two lines and the availability of land induced the company to make the physical connection facing towards Salisbury and London, and the junction was to the east of the S & YR station.

Salisbury and is
This is known through the writings of John of Salisbury, who is thought to have been a near exact contemporary student of Alan of Lille.
But there are smaller snippets of tradition preserved in the Historia Brittonum: in Chapter 31, we are told that Vortigern ruled in fear of Ambrosius ; later, in Chapter 66, various events are dated from a Battle of Guoloph ( often identified with Wallop, ESE of Amesbury near Salisbury ), which is said to have been between Ambrosius and Vitolinus ; lastly, in Chapter 48, it is said that Pascent, the son of Vortigern, was granted rule over the regions of Buellt and Gwrtheyrnion by Ambrosius.
The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain in Salisbury in the northwest corner of the state.
The same shield shown here is found on the tomb effigy of his grandson, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.
Hatfield House, the home of the Marquess of Salisbury, is the nucleus of the old town.
Hatfield House is the seat of the Cecil family, the Marquesses of Salisbury.
He went on to find a similar penetration of volcanic rock through sedimentary rock near the centre of Edinburgh, at Salisbury Crags, adjoining Arthur's Seat: this is now known as Hutton's Section.
Nevertheless he was also aware of the criticisms, and quoted Lord Salisbury as saying that " aether is little more than a nominative case of the verb to undulate ".
A Neolithic causewayed enclosure on Salisbury Plain has acquired the name Robin Hood's Ball, although had Robin Hood existed it is doubtful that he would have travelled so far south.
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury.
The Oxford English Dictionary cites Ælfric's 10th-century glossary, in which henge-cliff is given the meaning " precipice ", or stone, thus the stanenges or Stanheng " not far from Salisbury " recorded by 11th-century writers are " supported stones ".
* 1890 – Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
Marsh ’ s estimate is more favourable than Blake's, he portrays Salisbury as a leader who " held back the popular tide for twenty years.
However, the use of vetoes is limited by convention and by the operation of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949: the Lords may not veto the " money bills " or major manifesto promises ( see Salisbury convention ).
That is the doctrine not merely of Peel, of Disraeli, of Salisbury, and Chamberlain ; it is the doctrine of Gladstone ; it is the doctrine of Cobden ; it is the doctrine of Bright ; and it is the doctrine of Campbell Bannerman ... It is the doctrine of all the great Liberal leaders of the past and present ".
** The 223-mile North Carolina Railroad is completed from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte.
* c. 2750 BC — 1500 BC — Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, is built.
* October 24 – Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, is mortally wounded in an unsuccessful assault on Orléans.

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