It has clear elements of Anglo-Saxon architecture, such as long-and-short quoins and double triangular-headed windows, suggesting that it was built very early by Anglo-Saxon masons on the Normans ' orders.

The building includes long-and-short quoins characteristic of Anglo-Saxon architecture, and re-used Roman masonry from Binchester Roman Fort.

Characteristic features include quoins in ' long-and-short work ' ( alternating vertical and horizontal blocks ) and small windows with rounded or triangular tops, deeply splayed or in groups of two or three divided by squat columns.

In all likelihood, the railroad was at least partially to blame, as they had a lucrative contract with the U. S. Post Office to haul mail ( hence the train's name ), the contract including a penalty clause for each minute the train was late into Spencer.

A scow, in the original sense, is a flat-bottomed boat with a blunt bow, often used to haul bulk freight ; cf.

The usual etymology, however, is that Sulis means " sun " as this is the original form of current Welsh haul —" sun "— and Old Irish suil ( from Indo-European * sawel -); cf.

To haul trains on a reopened line the trust is progressing with the construction of a replica Sharp Stewart steam locomotive, based on the designs of the original locomotives that served the railway.

This number does not include the Coleman Outfield Hill, made during the original construction because of lack of funding to haul the dirt away, which can seat hundreds more.

The signing of the Interstate Highway Act of 1956 helped create a network of more convenient and efficient roadways for motor vehicle travel throughout the country, enticing many more people to travel by car, as well as haul freight by truck rather than by rail.

In 1887 Upham Manufacturing started a line south out of town through what is now Wildwood Park to haul logs in from Cameron and Richfield.

Ferris took another nine-wicket haul in the second Test, but again England were victorious, though in the only Test of the 1887 / 88 tour he could manage " only " six as the Englishmen came out on top yet again.

Two small 0-4-0 tank locomotives were bought from Beyer Peacock in 1887 to haul stores trains around the site, and six more were acquired at intervals to 1901.

After a nuclear blast, one bureaucrat suggested in those halcyon days, about all you had to do was haul out the broom and sweep off your sidewalks and roof.

Between the unsafe Towne field and the long roundabout back road haul that was necessary to gain access to Wilson flat, arrangements at the state capital were far from satisfactory.

The Chinese invention of the horse collar by the 5th century was also a great improvement from the breast harness, allowing the horse to haul greater weight without heavy burden on its skeletal structure.

Some early digs merely saw labourers haul away tons of materials with little regard to anything that was not of immediate economic value.

This locomotive could haul 30 tons of coal up a hill at, and was the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive: its traction depended only on the contact between its flanged wheels and the rail.

The Granite Railway, America's first railroad, was built to haul granite from the quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts, to the Neponset River in the 1820s.

Honorius was required to engage in a number of petty wars in Rome, which wasted his time and were in the long haul unsuccessful in restoring order in the streets.

Only in the 19th century was it used as a term for an athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope.

It was his first five-wicket haul in a Test innings.

A trailer's dimensions vary greatly, depending on the amount and type of cargo it was designed to haul.

The Rotodyne was developed to combine the efficiency of a fixed-wing aircraft at cruise with the VTOL capability of a helicopter to provide short haul airliner service from city centres to airports.

The overfilled launch ( OFL ) was created to reduce measurement variability, and improve concatenation estimates for multimode fibers, used at that time for telecom ' long haul ' ( e. g., 7-10 km 850 nm or 20-30 km 1300 nm ) systems.

One leopard was seen to haul a young giraffe, estimated to weigh up to, more than twice the weight of the cat, up into a tree.

It was the railway which Gustaf Nordenskiöld employed to haul boxcars of relics from the Mesa Verde, Colorado, cliff dwellings, in 1891, en route to the National Museum of Finland.

According to two Operation Blessing pilots who reported this incident to the state of Virginia for investigation in 1994, Robertson used his Operation Blessing planes to haul diamond-mining equipment to Robertson's mines in Liberia, despite the fact that Robertson was telling his 700 Club viewers that the planes were sending relief supplies to the victims of the genocide in Rwanda.

In the second test a 10 wicket haul helped New Zealand to a rare test win in India, however the series was eventually lost 2-1.

DAF had studied the requirements of the ultra long haul market sector and the 95. 500 Super Spacecab was unveiled at the 1994 RAI show.

This was ultimately Basil's fault as he had diverted a relief fleet from Sicily to haul marble for a church instead.

During the era before modern diesel or gasoline powered equipment, what machinery existed was steam-powered, and animal-or steam-powered skidders could be used to haul harvested logs to nearby railroads for shipment to sawmills.

The report was applauded as an elegant defense of the doctrine of separation of church and state, but again Johnson did not escape charges of conflict of interest due to his having friends who were contracted to haul mail, and who would have suffered financially from the proposal.

Ratcliff Lake, now a United States Department of Interior recreational site, was the millpond for the Four C. The Texas Southeastern Railroad laid track from Lufkin to haul out the lumber.

Enough gold was mined here to make it worthwhile to haul huge gold dredges to this remote location.

Everything was very high at that time, and I used to haul my goods from Albuquerque to live on.

Across from the railroad station, a huge barn was built in 1898, and was used as a livery stable, handy for horses to haul goods from nearby mines and for local freight delivery from the trains.

The combined airline added long haul destinations and strengthened its position in Africa.

A very special Class of “ high-cube ” boxcar was the X60 class series 8 door type introduced in the mid 1960s on American railroads to haul bulky but light-weight automotive parts such as body panels and were a massive 86 feet in length.

As the " transportation revolution " ( canals and railroads ) went forward, an increasingly large share and absolute amount of wheat, corn, and other staples of western producers – once difficult to haul across the Appalachians – went to markets in the Northeast.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad was one of a number of railroads built in the northeastern United States primarily to haul anthracite coal.

* April 30, 1865: The LNA & C becomes one of twenty railroads to haul Abraham Lincoln's funeral train, from Lafayette, Indiana to Michigan City, Indiana.

Also in this decade, autoracks were built in three-level configurations so railroads could haul more of the smaller vehicles of the era ; two-level autoracks were still in use for vans and light trucks.

Several railroads retain a set of E-units to haul passenger specials, management inspection specials, and the like.

The timber industry also operated in the area, and built railroads to haul out most of the cypress ecosystem's old growth trees.

It also required that railroads publicize shipping rates and prohibited short haul / long haul fare discrimination, a form of price discrimination against smaller markets, particularly farmers.