Sherman proved that a railway base could be movable and the most brilliant feature of the Atlanta campaign was the rapid repair of the tracks.

From the night of August 30 to the morning of September 2 there was no Union cavalry east of the Macon railway to disclose to Sherman that he was missing the greatest opportunity of his career.

The Manchester Guardian wondered how anyone in a railway carriage would have an opportunity to talk to Mr. Lewis, since it was well known that Mr. Lewis always did all of the talking.

In the railway station at Berlin, a uniformed attendant was chanting, ' Foreigners this way!!

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

In 1894, the Westport-Newport railway line was extended to Achill Sound.

He was stationed in San Francisco from 1869 through 1871 and he took out a patent for the cable car railway that still runs there, receiving a charter for its operation, but signing away his rights when he was reassigned.

In 2008, a former goods shed by the main railway station of Abensberg was converted into a theatre by local volunteers.

In the 19th century and up to the 1930s, the city was important for the production of railway locomotives and carriages, iron, pins, needles, buttons, tobacco, woollen goods, and silk goods.

Aachen's railway station, the Hauptbahnhof ( Central Station ), was constructed in 1841 at the Cologne-Aachen railway line and replaced in 1905, moving it significantly closer to the city centre.

The steel price dropped as a direct result, and Bessemer steel was rapidly adopted for railway lines and girders for buildings and bridges.

The town became a regional transportation hub in 1839 with the arrival of the Michigan Central Railroad, and a north — south railway connecting Ann Arbor to Toledo and other markets to the south was established in 1878.

Born in Munich, Drexler was a machine-fitter before becoming a railway locksmith in Berlin in 1902.

Some also claim it to be the oldest subway tunnel in the world, as it was built by the cut and cover method under a city street, specifically for the purposes of improved public safety, attaining grade separation and enhanced railway operations.

Although this distinction was blurred by the 19th century arrival of the railway.

From 1882 the village was served by Aberfoyle railway station, the terminus of the Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway which connected to Glasgow via Dumbarton or Kirkintilloch The station closed to passenger traffic in 1951, and the remaining freight services ceased in 1959.

* From the Meiji to the Shōwa period, as the electric railway improved transport to Akihabara and the surrounds, and especially due to the growth in dealerships, the district was designated as a.

The estate was conveniently located within easy walking distance of Bletchley railway station, where the " Varsity Line " between the cities of Oxford and Cambridge – whose universities supplied many of the code-breakers – met the ( then-LMS ) main West Coast railway line between London and Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow.

The only direct enemy action that the site experienced was when 3 bombs, thought to have been intended for Bletchley railway station, were dropped on 20 – 21 November 1940.

The system was originally built as a patchwork of local rail links operated by small private railway companies.

It was formed from the nationalisation of the " Big Four " British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages between 1994 and 1997.

Canada, a nascent country with a population of 3. 5 million in 1871, lacked the practical means to exercise meaningful de facto control within the de jure political boundaries of the recently acquired Rupert's Land -- building a transcontinental railway was national policy of high order in changing this situation.

1929 saw the merger of the acquired railway business with those of Cammell Laird to form Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon ( MCCW ); Metro Cammell.

The wealth that his father had acquired in the building of the Baku-Batumi railway was used to fund a good education for Lev.

In 1923, Sochi acquired one of its most distinctive features, a railway which runs from Tuapse to Abkhazia within a kilometer or two of the coastline.

Omagh acquired railway links to Derry in 1852, Enniskillen in 1853 and Belfast in 1861.

Several of these former railway lines have been abandoned and the right of way acquired for other uses.

In 1845, the railway was acquired by the York and North Midland Railway who re-engineered the line to allow the use of steam locomotives.

With the closure of Clayton West railway station and subsequent reopening of much of the branch line as Kirklees Light Railway, Shelley finally acquired a railway station in 1997.

In 1959, Czechoslovakia acquired the area around Mýtiny, that allowed it to extend the cog railway Tanvald-Kořenov to the outskirts of Harrachov, Poland was compensated by land to the north from Mrtvý vrch.

In 1867, he acquired a public house in Villiers Street named " The Arches ", under the arches of the elevated railway line leading to Charing Cross station.

The site was founded in the autumn of 1914 when farmland between Westbarrow Hall and the Great Eastern railway line at Warners Bridge 2½ miles north of Southend Pier was acquired for RFC training purposes.

Other railway engineering assets were acquired, including Westinghouse Brake & Signal and the engine builder Mirrlees Blackstone, which came with the Brush businesses.

The railway also interchanged with CN at Prince George, and with Northern Alberta Railways ( acquired by CN in 1981 ) at Dawson Creek.

Over the next two years the railway acquired six GE 70-ton locomotives.

In the 1980s, the railway acquired new SD40-2 locomotives made by General Motors Diesel ( GMD ), as well as used SD40 – 2s originally made by General Motors Electro-Motive Division ( EMD ).

In 1858, the EKR leased the remaining lines of the West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway from Shortlands railway station, and also negotiated temporary running powers over the lines recently acquired by the LB & SCR, pending the construction of its own line into west London.

The railway was subsequently acquired by the North Eastern Railway.

In addition to the original station buildings, the museum has also acquired the former Oxford Rewley Road railway station and a London Transport building from Wembley Park, both of which have been reassembled on the site.

The White Pass and Yukon Route railway acquired the world's first container ship, the Clifford J. Rogers, built in 1955, and introduced containers to its railway in 1956.

Most land was acquired by absentee landowners, with speculation built on the decision of the new Dominion of Canada to build a railway to the Pacific to begin somewhere along the north shore of Lake Superior.

Most land was acquired by absentee landowners, with speculation built on the decision of the new Dominion of Canada to build a railway to the Pacific to begin somewhere along the north shore of Lake Superior.

Huntington had acquired the Pacific Electric railway system and used it to promote new communities outside of Los Angeles.