Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne.

Since the last railway was dismantled in 1952, the only remaining modes of transport are by motorways, by sea, and by air.

As a tribute to his life and works, a bronze statue of Stephenson was unveiled at Chesterfield railway station ( which is overlooked by Tapton House, where Stephenson spent the last ten years of his life ) on 28 October 2005, marking the completion of improvements to the station.

The Dominion Government of Canada assumed the colony's extensive railway debts and agreed to finance a buy-out of the last of the colony's absentee landlords to free the island of leasehold tenure and from any new immigrants entering the island ( accomplished through the passage of the Land Purchase Act, 1875 ).

It was the last of the Australian colonies to agree to join the Federation, and did so only after the other colonies had offered several concessions, including the construction of a transcontinental railway line to Perth ( via Kalgoorlie ) from the eastern states.

Passchendaele lay on the last ridge east of Ypres, five miles from a railway junction at Roulers, which was a vital part of the supply system of the German Fourth Army.

Caernarvon railway station served the town from 1852 to 1970 and was one of the last passenger services to be closed under the Beeching Axe ; it is now the site of the Morrisons supermarket.

Friedrich Engels famously responded to Bakunin, refuting the argument of total decentralization, or anarchism, by scoffing " how these people propose to run a factory, operate a railway or steer a ship without having in the last resort one deciding will, without single management, they of course do not tell us ".

Partially modified to became a rack railway in its last section, it was destroyed by eruption in 1944.

" With a feeling that I was going to find what I was seeking, an anchorage at last, I returned from Marseilles, and, changing at Pas des Lanciers, took the little railway which leads to Martigues.

The last link of a railway route along the Silk Road was completed in 1990, when the railway systems of China and Kazakhstan connected in Alataw Pass ( Alashan Kou ).

It was one of the last remaining mechanical ' flapper ' display boards at a British railway station and certainly the largest, but was removed from service in September 2007 and replaced by electronic boards.

During the Civil War, Pooler was a railway stop called Pooler's Station — the last stop before Savannah on the Central of Georgia Railroad.

On December 18, 1867, just after 3 p. m. the last coach of the Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railway derailed.

Crossing the Wensum for the last time and close to the former Lenwade railway station now privately owned and on to Whitwell railway station.

Since the New South Wales Government would not allow the South Australia Government to build a railway to cross the border, the last 19 miles ( 30 km ) was built by a private company as the Silverton Tramway.

The last serious flood was in 1947 and reached far beyond the railway line, most of Queens Road was flooded as was Nether Street.

There is a main-line railway station at Toul, the last major station before the ( once vast, and still very large ) marshalling yards at Nancy.

One of the last major railway closures was of the 98-mile long ( 158 km ) Waverley Route main line between Carlisle, Hawick and Edinburgh in 1969 ; the re-opening of a 35-mile section of this line was approved by the Scottish Parliament and passenger services are due to resume in 2014.

One of the last links to Rugby's rural past was the town's cattle market held near the railway station, and earlier in the " Market Place " in the old centre of Rugby since medieval times.

The station was opened on 15 March 1899 and was the terminus of the Great Central Railway's new London extension main line — the last major railway line to be built into London until High Speed 1.

Although cargos of coal and wool moved to the railway, the carriage of grain continued, and the last commercial operation was in 1972.

Over the last few years the post has been held by people from outside the university, chosen from industry top levels, in order to strengthen the ties between the university and industrial partners.

After the last retreat of the ice sea level changes and the isostatic rise of land makes charting post glacial coastlines a complex task but the resultant clifflines behind raised beaches are a prominent feature of the entire coastline.

* Michigan State Capitol " Middle Village / Town ", where downtown Lansing now stands, was the last of the three villages to develop in 1848 with the completion of the Michigan Avenue bridge across the Grand River and the completion of the temporary capitol building which sat where Cooley Law School stands today on Capitol Avenue in between Allegan and Washtenaw Streets, and finally the relocation of the post office to the village in 1851.

* 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.

* Prague pneumatic post, the world's last preserved pneumatic mail system

On June 30, 1974, the Cleveland and Cincinnati highway post office, the last HPO route, was discontinued.

But Dallas finished strong, winning their last six regular season games to post a 12 – 4 record.

His last Army post was as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States Armed Forces operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East.

It gained importance during the Middle Ages as a trading post, and hosted the last free Privy Council of Norway in 1533, a desperate attempt to save the country's independence and stave off the Protestant Reformation, led by Olav Engelbrektsson, archbishop of Nidaros ( today Trondheim ).

Soon thereafter the office of the Comintern Chairman was abolished and Zinoviev lost his last important post.

# The name originated from the last name Veluche belonging to the French or Belgian owner of the trading post in Volusia.

Caton orders the last man out of his command post with a written message, as McKluskey walks in, asking for a weapon.

Haig continued in this position until 1973, when he was appointed to be Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, a post he held until the last few months of President Nixon's tenure, during which he served as White House Chief of Staff.

In later years many administrative changes were made that increased the independence of the Director of Estates and Services, the Director of the Manchester Computing Centre, and eventually combined the offices of Registrar and Bursar as that of Registrar and Secretary, the last holder of this post being Eddie Newcomb ( 1995-2004 ).

Due to its height, from the late 17th century it became an important watchout post for the city for centuries until 1905 ; the last keeper of the tower was forced to leave in 1926.

Bath later became known as Berkeley Springs, primarily because the town's post office took that name ( combining Governor Norborne Berkeley's last name with the warm springs found there ) to avoid confusion with another post office, located in southeastern Virginia, which was already called Bath.

The post office closed in 1966 upon the death of the last postmistress, Ida Morris.

The last post and reveille are played, followed by a wreath-laying ceremony.

On 19 September 2004, after a four-day meeting of the 198-member Central Committee, Jiang resigned as chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, his last party post.

Six months later he resigned his last significant post, chairman of the State CMC.

In 1916, he took a post teaching at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen, and continued to work there until his death, in his last year as director of the institute.

The first name for the settlement was probably Pueblo Colorado, but when Don Lorenzo Hubbell ( Nov 27, 1853-November 12, 1930 ) purchased the post in 1876, he changed the name to Ganado in honor of Ganado Mucho, the last Navajo peace chief and the twelfth signer of the Navajo peace treaty of 1868.

The last remaining building of the Fort Bragg military post is located at 430 North Franklin Street.