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* East Cambridge ( Area 1 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the east by the Charles River, on the south by Broadway and Main Street, and on the west by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.
* MIT Campus ( Area 2 ) is bordered on the north by Broadway, on the south and east by the Charles River, and on the west by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.
* Wellington-Harrington ( Area 3 ) is bordered on the north by the Somerville border, on the south and west by Hampshire Street, and on the east by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.
* Area 4 is bordered on the north by Hampshire Street, on the south by Massachusetts Avenue, on the west by Prospect Street, and on the east by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.
* Cambridgeport ( Area 5 ) is bordered on the north by Massachusetts Avenue, on the south by the Charles River, on the west by River Street, and on the east by the Grand Junction Railroad tracks.
Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colorado, the son of Maud ( née Tillery ) and Orus Bonham Trumbo, and his family moved to Grand Junction in 1908.
Trumbo graduated from Grand Junction High School.
While still in high school, he worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations.
He wrote his first published novel, Eclipse ( 1935 ), about a town and its people, in the social realist style, drawing on his years in Grand Junction.
The book was controversial in Grand Junction and many people were unhappy with his portrayal.
He worked with Joseph Locke on the Grand Junction Railway with one half of the line allocated to each man.
* 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.
Edison's first telegraphy job away from Port Huron was at Stratford Junction, Ontario, on the Grand Trunk Railway.
The Regent's Canal and the Grand Junction Canal agreed that amalgamation and modernisation were the only way to remain competitive.
* Grand Junction Canal – bought by the Regent's Canal in 1927
* Old Grand Union Canal – bought by the Grand Junction in 1894
* Leicestershire and Northamptonshire Union Canal – bought by the Grand Junction in 1894
The section of the main line between Brentford and Braunston ( formerly the Grand Junction Canal ), was built as a ' wide ' or ' broad ' canal-that is, its locks were wide enough to accommodate two narrowboats abreast ( side by side ) or a single wide barge up to 14 feet ( 4. 27 m ) in beam.
One end of the Grand Union Canal ( Grand Junction Canal-Main Line ) is at Brentford on the River Thames in west London, where the canal follows the engineered course of the River Brent.
Three miles ( 5 km ) from Norwood on this long level is Bulls Bridge Junction, once the site of the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company's main dockyard.
The north section leads to Rugby and Coventry ; the southward fork carries both the Oxford Canal and the Grand Union for 5 miles ( 8 km ) to Napton Junction.
Shortly after Napton Junction, the Grand Union reaches three locks at Calcutt, which begin the descent to the Warwickshire River Avon.
Formed by amalgamations of once-independent canals, the ' Leicester Line ' of the Grand Union Canal runs north from Norton Junction for about 35 miles ( 56 km ) until it reaches Leicester, where it joins the River Soar to provide a link to the River Trent and to the Trent and Mersey Canal.

Grand and Railway
The construction of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ( now Canadian National Railway ) through this district made it of some importance at the start of the 20th century.
Among its accomplishments, the United Province of Canada negotiated the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 with the United States, built the Grand Trunk Railway, improved the educational system in Canada West under Egerton Ryerson, reinstated French as an official language of the legislature and the courts, codified the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, and abolished the seigneurial system in Canada East.
Grand Trunk Railway Co of Canada v Robinson A. C. 740 was followed and Peek v North Staffordshire Railway 11 E. R.
* Grand Canyon Railway Depot was built in 1909 and contains 2 levels.
Gordon Chappell, Regional Historian for the Park Service, claims that this depot building is one of only three log-cabin-style train stations currently standing, out of fourteen ever built in the U. S. The depot is the northern terminus of the Grand Canyon Railway which begins in Williams, Arizona.
From Montrose, a line was laid north through Delta, reaching Grand Junction in March 1883, which completed a narrow gauge transcontinental link with the Rio Grande Western Railway to Salt Lake City, Utah.
The original Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway built a narrow gauge line from Ogden, Utah via Soldier Summit, Utah to Grand Junction, Colorado.
After stepping down as Brotherhood Grand Secretary in 1893, he organized one of the first industrial unions in the United States, the American Railway Union ( ARU ).
* Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon Railway
* political pressure from British financiers who had invested money in the loss-making Grand Trunk Railway
Grand Canyon Railway trains at Williams, Arizona | Williams Depot
The city has an East Side and a West Side, separated by a wide area of railroad tracks which include the Canadian National Railway's ( Grand Trunk Western ) Shoreline and River subdivisions and the Norfolk Southern Railway / Conrail Shared Assets's Detroit Line.
The extension of the Grand Trunk Railway from Sarnia to Toronto ( and hence through Berlin ) in July 1856 was a major boon to the community, helping to improve industrialization in the area.
The opening of the Grand Junction Canal ( later renamed Grand Union Canal ) as the major freight transport route between London and Birmingham in 1796 began a commercial boom, intensified by the arrival of Brunel's Great Western Railway in 1839, leading to th of brick factories, flour mills and chemical plants which formed the town's commercial base.
However, because of its location on the Grand Junction Canal ( later called the Grand Union ) and the Great Western Railway it had a number of advantages as an industrial location in the late 19th century.
File: St Pancras Railway Station. jpg | Former Midland Grand Hotel, St. Pancras Station ( 1866 – 76 )
* the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada.

Grand and GJR
In 1845, the railway was absorbed by its principal business partner, the Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ); the following year the GJR formed part of the London and North Western Railway.
In 1845 the L & MR was absorbed by its principal business partner, the Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ); the following year the GJR formed part of the London and North Western Railway.
It terminated at Curzon Street Station, which it shared with the Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ), whose adjacent platforms gave a link to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ( L & MR ), and allowed through rail travel from London to those cities.
In 1845 the L & MR was absorbed by its principal business partner, the Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ); the following year the GJR formed part of the London and North Western Railway.
The Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ) absorbed the Warrington and Newton company as of 31 December 1834 and from the GJR's completion of their trunk line from Birmingham on 4 July 1837 used it to access the Liverpool and Manchester line.
The company had putative plans to extend north and south ; effectively these were taken over by the newly formed Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ), to form part of the route from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester ( via the L & MR ) and northwards through Wigan.
In 1845 the LMR was absorbed by the Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ), which in turn was one of the constituents of the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) a year later.
The Trent Valley Railway ( TVR ), which connected the London and Birmingham Railway ( L & BR ) at with the Grand Junction Railway ( GJR ) at, was formed on 21 July 1845 and opened on 15 September 1847, and included a station at Lichfield ; in the meantime, the L & BR, GJR and Manchester and Birmingham Railway had amalgamated in July 1846 as the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ), which itself absorbed the TVR later in 1846.

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