On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

There a certain farmhouse was a station for the Sons of Liberty.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

In the grand court of the Palace, notable for its tiers of Moorish galleries that looked down on the maelstrom of vehicles below, Vernon's station was at the entrance.

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

This was extended the following year to include the railroad station agent's office and Thayer's Hotel at Factory Point.

The radar station with the best location was still not serviceable.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

It was the station wagon that had passed his cab on the road, the station wagon that had been parked at the Burch farm.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.

I asked an old guy running a fishing station if the boat was Moore's.

At the feeding station, the raffish group of cowbirds again bobbed and gobbled over the ground, but now, gorgeous among them, was a beautiful red cardinal, radiant in its feathered vestments.

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

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.

W7ASU is an amateur radio station that was first organized in 1935.

" The next stop, station six, was a blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there.

At station nine, an area known as the " Vacant Lot ", which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, Young and Duke spent about forty minutes gathering samples.

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

EDGE-compatible transceiver units must be installed and the base station subsystem needs to be upgraded to support EDGE.

Zutphen's old station building ( 1863 ), upgraded in 1875, was partly destroyed during World War II.

The radar was significantly upgraded with a new tower in 1962, but the station was obsolete within three years and was deactivated.

KYMI began on 107. 9 MHz, but moved to 98. 5 in 1996 when a station in Odessa upgraded facilities.

The same period brought an improvement in the level of public services throughout western Emery County, with the installation of a modern telephone system, improved water and sewage systems, a relay station to direct television signals from Salt Lake City stations past the barrier of the Wasatch Plateau, as well as upgraded police and fire protection being provided.

The new facility will double the size of the university's existing newsroom-last upgraded in the 1960s-and allow more students to participate in the school's WOUB radio station and television programs.

A freight station dock was constructed at Luxemburg in 1913 and upgraded three years later with a cement platform and refrigerator compartment facilitating trade to the area.

Electric vehicles will take advantage of whatever environmental gains happen when a renewable energy generation station comes online, a fossil-fuel power station is decommissioned or upgraded.

While the line to Brill was being upgraded, the MR were rebuilding and re-siting Quainton Road station as part of their improvement programme, freeing space for a direct link between the former Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway and the O & AT to be built.

In 2005, major refurbishing works took place, which involved the station being fully repainted, receiving a new CCTV system, better lighting, upgraded PA systems, new toilets, and new train indicator boards.

These were converted to colour with the station and were expanded and upgraded when demand increased following the launch of Channel 4.

The new building is to the immediate south of the current station, which itself is being upgraded as part of the programme.

In 1997 a 1. 6 mile ( 2. 5 km ) section from the bypass / Ross Road roundabout to the railway station was upgraded to a 2 m ( 6. 5 ft ) wide path with a surface of compacted limestone chippings that could be utilised by cyclists and wheelchair-users.

The Franklin Square station has been closed since 1979, but is now slated to be upgraded and made compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act.

The Gringley pumping station was fitted with new diesel pumps in the 1940s, and was upgraded again in 2005 when electric pumps and an automatic weedscreen cleaner were installed.

The station also rebranded itself as " Counterforce 40 " and significantly upgraded its programming.

The KC-135s were withdrawn in 1990 and the station was returned to standby status, later the status was upgraded to ' limited use ' in the mid 1990s.

Many crossings, such as the bridge over the Wenlock near Moreton station, have been upgraded ; however, many fords remain.

When Griffin, which was the owners then, upgraded to a class C3 station on July 17, 1995, its tower was moved closer to Atlanta and moved down to the 97. 5 FM frequency.

In late February 2002, the station upgraded to a class C1 as an Atlanta move-in.

Chadwell heath is served by London Buses services and National Rail from Chadwell Heath railway station which is currently being upgraded as part of the Crossrail Project.

In 1930 the station was upgraded with escalators to replace the original lifts and the secondary entrance was replaced with a modern design by Charles Holden, virtually identical to one he built at the same time at Hammersmith.

The level crossing at Bentleigh railway station was upgraded in 2006 at a cost of A $ 1. 2 million and included sirens as well as bells, red man lights, ' Another Train is Coming ' lights and latches on the emergency exit.

The station has recently upgraded its Stanthorpe studios with a new mixing desk, new computers and professional grade monitor speakers.