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railway and construction
In June 2010, Transport Minister Manuk Vartanian revealed that Yerevan is seeking as much as $ 1 billion in loans from China to finance the railway ’ s construction.
Another crossing, the Marmaray tunnel, is a long undersea railway tunnel currently under construction and is expected to be completed in 2015.
Regional transportation networks have also changed significantly in recent decades with port modernizations, with new expressways and ongoing arterial highway construction, the abandonment of various low-capacity railway branchlines ( including the entire railway system of Prince Edward Island and southwestern Nova Scotia ), and the construction of the Canso Causeway and the Confederation Bridge.
In 1847 the railway came to Emsworth with the construction of the West Coastway Line, Emsworth railway station was built to serve the town.
The British Army in Egypt recognised this before the war and had the Eighth Army begin construction of several " boxes " ( localities with dug-outs and surrounded by minefields and barbed wire ), the most developed being around the railway station at Alamein.
Germany has seen increased political activity by citizens outside the established political parties with respect to local and environmental issues such as the location of Stuttgart 21 a railway hub and construction of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport.
In 1998 an agreement was signed between Portugal and Guinea-Bissau for construction of railway to Guinea.
In 1857 Nepveu negotiated a contract to build a railway bridge over the river Garonne at Bordeaux, connecting the Paris-Bordeaux line to the lines running to Sète and Bayonne, which involved the construction of a iron girder bridge supported by six pairs of masonry piers on the river bed.
He was already working independently on the construction of two railway stations, at Toulouse and Agen, and in 1866 he was given a contract to oversee the construction of 33 locomotives for the Egyptian government, a profitable but undemanding job in the course of which he visited Egypt, where he visited the Suez Canal which was being constructed by Ferdinand de Lesseps.
To speed up the construction works, the Polish government in November 1924 signed a contract with the French-Polish Consortium for Gdynia Seaport Construction, which by the end of 1925 had built a small seven-metre-deep harbour, the south pier, part of the north pier, a railway, and had also ordered the trans-shipment equipment.
In many cities, the new railway shops were the centres of technological awareness and training, so that by 1850, Germany was self-sufficient in meeting the demands of railroad construction, and the railways were a major impetus for the growth of the new steel industry.
Like many coastal towns, the population of Hastings grew significantly as a result of the construction of railway links and the fashionable growth of seaside holidays during the Victorian era.
Before railway construction on the Continent demanded huge quantities of maleable iron mainly for rails, for which low quality iron sufficed, Wallonia was the only Continental region to follow the British model successfully.
In many cities, the new railway shops were the centres of technological awareness and training, so that by 1850, Germany was self-sufficient in meeting the demands of railroad construction, and the railways were a major impetus for the growth of the new steel industry.
In August 2011, Jordanian government approved the construction of the railway from Aqaba to the Iraqi border ( near Trebil ).
:* The Israeli business newspaper Globes reported that in a meeting between the Israeli minister of transport, Shaul Mofaz and the Jordanian ambassador in Tel Aviv in November, the transport minister announced that European nations are interested in financing the construction of a Haifa-Irbid-Amman railway.
A key to the development of Kenya's interior was the construction, started in 1895, of a railway from Mombasa to Kisumu, on Lake Victoria, completed in 1901.
As governor of Kenya, Sir Percy Girouard was instrumental in initiating railway extension policy that led to construction of the Nairobi-Thika and Konza-Magadi railways.
The area's further development was boosted by the construction a railway between Yurga and Kolchugino ( now Leninsk-Kuznetsky ) with a connection between Topki and Shcheglovo.
In 2007, consultants were engaged to investigate the construction of a railway through this pass to connect China with transport in Pakistani-administered northern areas of Kashmir.

railway and debts
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 ).
This new railway linked with the Ardrossan Railway near Kilwinning and later purchased the Ardrossan Railway, the railway company's debts and the harbours.
The government's popularity waned as an economic downturn hit the province along with railway debts relating to government funding of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.
The federal government spent most of the decade disengaged from the economy and focused on paying off the large debts amassed during the war and during the era of railway over expansion.
An 1862 conference in Quebec City led to an agreement on financing the railway with the Maritime colonies and Canada splitting construction costs and Britain assuming any debts, however the deal fell through within months.
The government's popularity waned as an economic downturn hit the province along with the mounting railway debts.
Walkem fought the 1875 election facing charges that he had failed to secure railway construction and had increased the province's debts by engaging in expenseive public works projects.
Ottawa agreed to take over the railway, provide funds to settle the land question, assume the colony's debts and give the new province an annual subsidy.
The financial situation forced Haythorne's government to send a delegation to Ottawa in February 1873 and seek terms for admission to Canadian confederation which would see the completion of the railway and the Canadian government assume the island's debts.
In 1907 owing to a lack of support at their Godinton Road ground ( which being beyond the railway bridge was a fair distance from the town and their previous base in the Newtown area ), the club suffering from heavy debts was unable to fulfill its fixtures and ceased playing mid-season.
Other games do not feature bankruptcy at all, and enable a player to place a moribund company in " receivership ", or be incorporated into a government railway, and walk away from debts.
Its government's finances collapsed completely in the early 1930s due in part to considerable debts incurred by the government in its aid of the allied effort during the first world war and the large government debt acquired in constructing a railway across the island.
Attempts were made to convert the canal to a railway, and an Act of Parliament obtained in 1847 changed the name of the Company to the Chard Railway Company, but successive plans were thwarted by the inability of the Company to repay its debts.

railway and pushed
The proposed railway would have been an atmospheric railway with trains pushed through tunnels by compressed air.
This can best be seen by the railway strike of 1903, in which Kuyper showed no mercy to the strikers and instead pushed several particularly harsh anti-strike laws through parliament.
He pushed hard for public support of the intercontinental railway and advocated greater use of the telegraph for long-distance communication.
The footbridge from which Andy Hunter, played by Michael Higgs, was pushed to his death is easily identifiable as the bridge ( over the A102 Blackwall Tunnel southern approach ) that runs from Farmdale Road to Westcombe Park railway station.
He had pushed his forces across the Sinai desert and constructed a railway and freshwater pipeline from the Suez Canal to support a base of operations on the southern edge of Palestine, south of Gaza.
Under Ahidjo, the railway was pushed northeast, reaching Bélabo in the East Province in 1974.
Concreting on that wing was finished in November 1964, completion was pushed back from the start of 1966 by a year due to the rail companies failing to vault the nearby railway line that prevented access to the ground floor.
This name was also given to the original railway station after the rail line was pushed through in 1867.
He favored rail over river transport, and pushed to have the railway further extended to Kano by way of Zaria.
The machine is usually contained within a trailer that can be either towed to a location by another vehicle or, when used on railway tracks, placed on a hand trolley and pushed to the location.
The east boundary saw significant changes as it was pushed eastward to 66 Street into Edmonton-Beverly-Clareview and Edmonton-Manning as far north as 144 Avenue from the railway tracks at 127 Street.
As the Union armies pushed further into Confederate territory, they came into ownership of former Confederate railway lines, or what was left of them.
The railway has now gone, but many remember the small engine that pushed and pulled its single carriage up and down the line.
The following year, Marmaduke pushed laws through the state legislature that finally began regulating the state's railway industry.
Colonel Filipowicz had no further reserves and the German tanks were nearing the railway crossing, while the Polish cavalry was being pushed back with heavy losses.

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