Stephenson's face is shown alongside an engraving of his Rocket steam engine and the Skerne Bridge on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.

Here is an example of an IFR clearance, for a Cessna aircraft traveling from Palo Alto airport ( KPAO ) to Stockton airport ( KSCK ).

The technicians who maintain the Stockton section of the road have been persuaded by a radical social theory, Functionalism, that their role in maintaining the nation's transport infrastructure is more important than that of any other workers and that they should therefore be in control.

Gaines calls the Stockton office and learns that the leader of the rebellion is " Shorty " Van Kleeck, the chief deputy engineer of the Sacramento sector.

Asking for a parley, Gaines is taken to the Stockton office and faces Shorty.

Stockton is widely supposed to have likened Margaret Thatcher's policy of privatisation to ' selling the family silver '.

The county seat is Stockton.

Amtrak's San Joaquins Sacramento-Bakersfield trains stop at the Robert J. Cabral Station which is also used by Altamont Commuter Express trains which originate in Stockton.

RTD Hopper is a public bus service connecting Ripon, Escalon, Manteca, Lathrop, Thornton, Woodbridge, Acampo, Morada, and Linden to Stockton, Tracy, and Lodi.

Randall Evan " Randy " Stonehill ( born March 12, 1952 ) is an American singer-songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music.

Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, is named in his honor, as are streets in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; River Falls, Wisconsin ; Kiel, Wisconsin ; Manhattan, Kansas ; Portland, Oregon ; Grant City, Staten Island, New York ; Tempe, Arizona ; and Tucson, Arizona, as well as several cities in California: Fremont, Monterey, Seaside, Stockton, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Santa Clara.

The county seat is Fort Stockton.

Public education in Pecos County is provided by three Independent School Districts ( ISDs ): Buena Vista, Fort Stockton, and Iraan-Sheffield.

Pecos County is home to the Midland College Williams Regional Technical Training Center ( WRTTC ), located alongside Interstate Highway 10, in Fort Stockton.

The headquarters of La Escalera Ranch, owned and operated by the Lyda family, is located south of Fort Stockton.

It is named for Stockton P. Donley, a frontier lawyer.

The sprawling 320, 000 deeded acre ( 1, 400 km² ) La Escalera Ranch is located south of Fort Stockton, Texas and is owned and operated by the Gerald Lyda family.

Her character, Vanessa Lutz, is a poor girl living in Los Angeles, who, on the way to her grandmother's home in Stockton, encounters a freeway serial killer.

Its county seat is Stockton.

According to the 2000 U. S. Census, the county has a total area of, of which ( or 95. 47 %) is land and ( or 4. 53 %) is water, including various rivers and Stockton Lake.

The county seat is Stockton and the largest city is Plainville.

Eleven years later the Leeds Northern Railway completed its line from Leeds to Stockton through the town, although this did not initially connect with the main line-trains instead called at nearby Northallerton Town station a short distance away near the point where it passed beneath the line towards Darlington.

After a 3-mile ( 5-km ) level, the canal descends into the valley of the River Leam by the Stockton flight of ten locks ( often known as ' the Itchington Ten ').

Stockton is located on the natural trail up the valley of the South Solomon River and where the military supply trail from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, to Fort Hays, Kansas, crossed the South Solomon River.

Although most of the valley is rural, it does contain MSAs ( urban cities and suburbs ) such as Delano, Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton, Modesto, Visalia, Porterville, Merced, Madera, and Hanford.

While many valley politicians and businesses are eager supporters of the line, eager to provide better connections to the larger and wealthier cities to the north and south, large and vocal factions in cities such as Modesto and Stockton have opposed the line due to adverse impacts such as increased noise.

In 1825 he built the Locomotion for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, north east England, which became the first public steam railway.

These new journals comprise the Nature Publishing Group, which was created in 1999 and includes Nature, Nature Research Journals, Stockton Press Specialist Journals and Macmillan Reference ( renamed NPG Reference ).

They signed a huge contract to broadcast the NFC, which included luring Pat Summerall, John Madden, Dick Stockton, Matt Millen, James Brown, and Terry Bradshaw ( as well as many behind-the-scenes production personnel ) from CBS Sports as well.

* January 17, 1989: Cleveland School massacre of Stockton, California where 5 school children were killed and 30 wounded by a single gunman firing over 100 rounds into a schoolyard from an AK-47, in which the perpetrator later took his life.

Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters ' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like " The Griffin and the Minor Canon " ( 1885 ) and " The Bee-Man of Orn " ( 1887 ), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak.

However, the Admiralty disapproved of the invention, which led to the fortunate contact with the encouraging American captain Robert Stockton who had Ericsson design a propeller steamer for him and invited him to bring his invention to the United States of America, as it would supposedly be more welcomed in that place.

Nearby college campuses include those of Atlantic Cape Community College and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, the latter of which offers classes and resources in the city such as the Carnegie Library Center.

In 1844 Charles Maria Weber and William Gulnac promoted the first white settlers ' colony on " Rancho del Campo de Los Franceses " which included French Camp and the site of Stockton.

In 1954, Richard Stockton MacNeish found ceramics and figurines in the Middle Formative period, called " Pavon de Panuco " in the Panuco River sites of the Huasteca, which resemble Preclassic objects from Uaxactun, a Petén-region Maya site.

Stockton was featured in British author Tony Parker's 1989 book Bird, Kansas in which he transcribed tape recorded interviews with local residents.

Today's Frankfort is just a small portion of the original town, which contained the present-day towns of Frankfort, Winterport, Stockton Springs, and Prospect.

Stockton, originally called Sandy Hill, grew up at the crossing of the post road from Snow Hill south to Virginia ( whose track is generally followed by modern Maryland Route 12 ) with the road from Mattapony Landing on the Pocomoke River to the Chincoteague Bay ( the eastern part of which is now Maryland Route 366 ), where ocean-going vessels could drop anchor.

In 1872 the Worcester County election district which took its name from Sandy Hill was renamed Stockton.

Students from Lambertville, Stockton and West Amwell Township attend the high school, which is located in Lambertville.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority ( NJTPA ) is planning to widen the Turnpike ( with the " dual-dual " configuration ) between Exit 6 ( in Mansfield Township ) and Exit 8A ( in Monroe Township ), which may require the condemnation of part of the Richard Stockton Service Area and the Woodrow Wilson Service Area.

Lines he designed which were actually built included most notably four connecting lines all built by separate companies, which together allowed a direct connection between the West Cumbrian haematite mines and the area served by the Stockton and Darlington ( which was behind them ):

Hackworth only stayed until the end of that year, following which, he returned to Walbottle occupying his time with contract work until, upon the recommendation of George Stephenson, he was appointed on 13 May 1825 to the position of locomotive superintendent of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, a post he was to occupy until May 1840

Matters were further complicated by the news about the problems being encountered on the Stockton and Darlington, which gave rise to considerable controversy as to the sort of motive power to be preferred.

In addition to his duties on the Stockton and Darlington, Hackworth set up his own business in which his son, John Wesley Hackworth, fully participated.