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old and tunnel
Because of leakage problems, a new water-tight tunnel was built inside the old one, from 1992 to 1995.
One of the pilings on the east bank was driven into the bottom of the river alongside the north wall of the old tunnel.
Today, there remains contention as to whether the mistake was the fault of the workers on-site, their parent company, or even the claim that maps provided by the city of Chicago failed to accurately depict the old tunnel systems.
In fact, the Kinzie Street river crossing was clearly delineated on the city maps: the typical tunnel ran down the center of the old streets.
Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce ( Katie Johnson ) is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone with her raucous parrots in a gradually subsiding " lopsided " house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel, in King's Cross, London.
This highway was replaced in 1937 by State Route 1, which followed the old railroad route through the Devil's Slide ; a tunnel is being built to replace this dangerous route, which has been closed periodically due to landslides.
Additionally, a pedestrian bridge was built over the tracks and the old underground tunnel between platforms was removed.
In August 1879, The Engineering and Mining Journal wrote, " the Gaylord Coal Co. is building a new breaker in place of the one burned down last summer, and which is to prepare the coal from the old slope workings, with its tunnel to the seven foot seam, as well as the coal from its new shaft which was sunk by the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., when it had it, to the Bennett seam.
In 2012, it was announced that Crossrail's tunnel contractor BAM / Ferrovial / Kier ( BFK ) will be forming a grout shaft beneath the original tunnel of the old central London subway.
After passing an old wharf and a pub at Fenny Compton, the canal enters a long cutting which, until it was opened out in the 19th century, was a tunnel.
The abandoned tunnel at Newbold on the old route of the canal.
Mining induced subsidence is relatively predictable in its magnitude, manifestation and extent, except where a sudden pillar or near-surface underground tunnel collapse occurs ( usually very old workings ).
The old train line still carries traffic particularly road traffic as freight, and has highly scenic sections in both cantons on either side of the old tunnel through the dividing ridgeline, yet is somewhat slower than the new route which has a much longer tunnel section.
Parts of the trackless former route can be clearly seen below the new route between Dduallt and the old tunnel.
One of the aspects of the new tunnel to Héðinsfjörður, is that it will open up interesting mountain tracks, trout fishing opportunities etc., which so far have only been open to boat owners or those willing to walk the old trail over the pass between Siglufjörður and Héðinsfjörður.
The Tissington Trail, a popular recreational walk and cycle path, starts at Mappleton Lane on the northern outskirts of town, accessed by a large Victorian tunnel nearly 500 yards long running from the former station site in the town and follows the course of the former Ashbourne to Buxton railway, running from what was Ashbourne railway station through the village of Tissington and joining the High Peak Trail ( the old Cromford and High Peak Railway ) at Parsley Hay.
At that time the old northbound platform was reconstructed, so that the track runs down the other side of the tunnel ( to allow cross-platform interchange ), resulting in unusually large tunnel mouths ; this also produced an apparently mysterious door in the wall opposite the platform-the original access to the platform is concealed behind the door.
The incline tunnel and the lift shaft were plugged on the surface and several blocks of flats were constructed on the old depot site by the LCC.
The nest is a shallow burrow or old rabbit tunnel up to 140 cm ( 55 in ) long in thick soil on vegetated ledges.

old and used
It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.
his hopes that the tunes from his old music might be used for popular American commercial songs!!
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
Just plain old black dirt was also used as a pack to relieve wasp or bee stings.
Shingles were cured by gentian, an old drug, used in combinations.
much of it has continued to be used over the years and the heart of it -- good guys and bad guys in the old West -- pretty well dominated television toward the end of the 1950's.
Before we built the new jail, we used to keep prisoners in here overnight sometimes when the old jail got too crowded.
Grandma said it was just like the early mining camp days, and it was the way people ought to live, only she was getting too old to take the pleasure from it that she used to.
At the end of the Peloponnesian War Lysander restored the scattered remnants of the old inhabitants to the island, which was used by the Spartans as a base for operations against Athens in the Corinthian War.
In the pontificate of Pius II, their number, which had been fixed at twenty-four, had overgrown to such an extent as to diminish considerably the individual remuneration, and, as a consequence, able and competent men no longer sought the office, and hence the old style of writing and expediting the Bulls was no longer used, to the great injury of justice, the interested parties, and the dignity of the Holy See.
) An old IPA symbol for light aspiration was ( that is, like a rotated ejective symbol ), but this is no longer commonly used.
They are important in military engineering, and are also used to carry traffic while an old bridge is being rebuilt.
This situation has often been used strategically by software vendors to force customers to purchase upgrades since, over time, the number of data files usable by an old version diminishes at a rate proportional to the number of other customers that have upgraded ( assuming that all customers generate files at the same the average rate.
At an address in Munich to the SA " old guard " on 8 November 1941 at the Buergerbrau beer cellar commemorating Hitler's 1923 failed putsch, he said that the term " blitzkrieg " was silly and never used it himself
The name is misleading, for it is simply the second revision ( A. D. 392 ) made by Jerome of the old Itala version originally used in Rome.
However, the 1552 book was used only for a short period, since Edward VI died in the summer of 1553 and, as soon as she could do so, Mary I, restored the old religion.
Eastern Christians of eastern Europe and western Asia used for a long time the Julian Calendar, that of the old Orthodox church, in countries like Russia.
In contrast, however, survivors of the ill-fated Mexican military colony on Clipperton in 1917 ( see below ) indicated that they were dependent upon rain for their water supply, catching it in several old boats they used for this purpose.
In Gough's Cave, England, remains of human bones and skulls, around 15, 000 years old, suggest that cannibalism took place amongst the people living in or visiting the cave, and that they may have used human skulls as drinking vessels.

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