Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Locomotive" ¶ 1
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

Victorian and Railways
After this venture failed, electric trams returned on 5 May 1906, with the opening of the Victorian Railways ' " Electric Street Railway " from St Kilda to Brighton, and was followed on 11 October 1906 with the opening of the North Melbourne Electric Tramway and Lighting Company ( NMETL ) system, which opened two lines from the cable tram terminus at Flemington Bridge to Essendon and Saltwater River ( now Maribyrnong River ).
The Victorian Railways line came about when Sir Thomas Bent became Premier of the State.
The VR tram was called a " Street Railway " and was built using the Victorian Railways broad gauge instead of the cable tramway standard gauge of, and connected it with the St Kilda railway station, to allow trams to be moved along the St Kilda railway line for servicing at Jolimont Yard.
When the Mount Buffalo Chalet was run by the Victorian Railways the restaurant was known as an official " Railways Refreshment Room ".
* The trains shown in the film were filmed with permission from the Victorian Railways Commission.
Sheffield Park has been restored to a Victorian ambience, as it would have appeared during the time of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( up to 1922 ); Horsted Keynes emulates the Southern Railway ( 1922 – 1948 ); and Kingscote echoes the British Railways of the 1950s.
1950s design locomotive boiler | steam locomotive boiler, from a Victorian Railways J class
The Junior section of the VFA originally included such clubs as Ballarat, Hawthorn, Northcote, South Melbourne, Standard, Victoria United, Victorian Railways and Williamstown.
Hawthorn, Northcote, Standard, Victoria United, Victorian Railways and Williamstown dropped out within a year or so but Hawthorn, Northcote and Williamstown were all to return at various times.
From 1906, the Victorian Railways operated their ' Electric Street Railway ' from St Kilda to Brighton.
* Victorian Railways A2 class, a 1907 Australian steam locomotive
Similar locomotives were exported to the Netherlands ( e. g. NS Class 600 ) and Australia ( e. g. Victorian Railways F class ( diesel )).
In the same year two 2-6-2T ' Prairie ' tank engines were built for Victorian Railways ( VR ).
Both Victorian Railways and New South Wales Government Railways, which pioneered electric traction in Australia in the early 20th century and continue to operate 1, 500 V DC Electric Multiple Unit services, have withdrawn their fleets of main line electric locomotives.
* Victorian Railways L class
In New South Wales, the Z19 class was a tender type with this wheel arrangement, as was the Victorian Railways Y class.
The 1940 Victorian Railways Ashworth Improvement Plan recommended a different approach, with additional platforms at the Flinders Street / Princes Bridge station complex to be built over two levels, along with a connection to an underground City Railway.
The Victorian Railways promoted another route in 1950 as part of the Operation Phoenix rehabilitation plan, the line running from Richmond towards Jolimont station, under the Fitzroy Gardens and Lonsdale Street then turning north to North Melbourne station.
The City of Melbourne, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works and the Victorian Railways all made annual contributions to support the operating costs of the authority.

Victorian and R
In R. Bellamy, ed., Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth-century Political Thought and Practice, London, pp. 5870
* Joby, R S. The Railway Builders: Lives and Works of the Victorian Railway Contractors, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1983, ISBN 0-7153-7959-3
Within the Church of St. Edward is an alabaster reredos inset with carvings in white marble, designed by the famous Victorian architect George Edmund Street R. A., which was presented by Lord Eldon in 1876.
The Victorian chapel building designed by J. R. Hamilton and James Medland is Grade II listed, as is the older burial area nearest the chapel including a large circular vault.
* Kincaid, James R. Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture.
The buildings were designed by the renowned Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse R. A in red pressed brick and had dressings of Bolton Wood stone in a Gothic Collegiate style.
* Versen, Christopher R. Optimistic Liberals: Herbert Spencer, the Brooklyn Ethical Association, and the Integration of Moral Philosophy and Evolution in the Victorian Trans-Atlantic Community.
Demands for health regulation of its food market in Victorian times saw the construction in 1855 to 1856 of the town's Pannier Market, originally known as the Vegetable Market and designed by R D Gould.
A romanticised Victorian era | Victorian depiction of a member of the clan in a late 17th century dress by R. R. McIan, from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845.
After centuries of decay and much rebuilding, very little of the stone facing is original ; heavily restored in the 19th century, the Gate today is in large part a Victorian recreation, the handiwork of a succession of architects — William P. Griffiths, R. Norman Shaw, and J. Oldrid Scott.
The statue is by the Victorian sculptor Joseph Durham A. R. A ..
Puget Sound's newest President is Ronald R. Thomas, affectionately called " Ron Thom " by many students, a scholar of Victorian literature, and the former vice-President of Trinity College.
Michael R. Turner, editor of Victorian Parlour Poetry, contributed:
Clan Donald | MacDonald, Lord of the Isles-a R. R. McIan | Victorian illustrator's impression
Laurie R. King has described Russell as " what Sherlock Holmes would look like if Holmes, the Victorian detective, were ( a ) a woman, ( b ) of the Twentieth century, and ( c ) interested in theology ".
Sights along Sixth Avenue include Juan Pablo Duarte Square, Greenwich Village with the polychrome High Victorian Gothic Jefferson Market Courthouse, currently occupied by the Jefferson Market Library ; the surviving stretch of grand department stores of 1880 to 1900 in the Ladies ' Mile Historic District that runs from 18th Street to 23rd Street ; the former wholesale flower district ; Herald Square at 34th Street, site of Macy's department store ; Bryant Park from 40th to 42nd Street ; and the corporate stretch above 42nd Street, which includes the Bank of America Tower ( New York ), W. R. Grace Building, International Center of Photography, Rockefeller Center — including the Time-Life Building, News Corp. Building, Exxon Building and McGraw-Hill Building, as well as Radio City Music Hall.
Jason R. Rudy, Victorian Poetry 42. 4 ( 2004 ).

Victorian and class
As was common in the Victorian era, women of her class were privately educated and rarely sent to college.
By the mid 1890s, the Golden Dawn was well established in Great Britain, with membership rising to over a hundred and including every class of Victorian society.
The restlessness of the Victorian period ’ s issues of working class radicalism, labor, war, economy, and other national themes were the targets of Punch, which in turn commanded the nature of Tenniel ’ s subjects.
This includes Victorian, which often negatively suggests sexual repression and class conflict.
Working class life in Victorian Wetherby, West Yorkshire
This is part of a satire of class hierarchy in Victorian England.
Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a television play that was never produced, the band's first rock opera affectionately chronicled the trials and tribulations of a working class everyman and his family from the very end of the Victorian era through World War I and World War II, the postwar austerity years, and up to the 1960s.
In " London: A Social History ", Roy Porter describes " Victorian villas in ... Kennington, long debased by use as lodging-houses, were transformed into luxury flats for young professionals or snips for first-time buyers — or were repossessed by the class of family for whom they had first been built ..."; and " Chambers London Gazetteer " observes the " reuniting of formerly subdivided properties " as " decline is being reversed ".
The first middle class suburban developments were built in the late Victorian and Edwardian period.
Chartism was a Victorian era working class movement for political reform in Britain between 1838 and 1848.
Among the upper class in 19th century Victorian Britain, pubic hair from one's lover was frequently collected as a souvenir.
As a popular foliage houseplant ( particularly in British boarding houses ), the plant became popular in late Victorian Britain, and was so commonplace that it became a symbol of middle class values.
From Victorian times to the 1930s, Glengormley was often the final destination on the leisure trail for working class Belfast citizens escaping the city grime.
In Victorian England, dowries were viewed by the upper class as an early payment of the daughter's inheritance.
Despite his preference for auburn hair, and his Victorian ideas about not marrying outside one's class, he eventually falls in love with a dark-haired music-hall actress, singer, and acrobat, Dulcie Duveen.
The beginning of 1902 brought more significant events for Byng, with his return to England in March, his marriage to Evelyn the following month, and in May his appointed to the Royal Victorian Order as a member 4th class.
The film featured Wilding as an upper class dandy and Neagle as the maid he marries, only to have the two of them driven apart by Victorian society.
* Liza of Lambeth ( 1897 ) is Maugham's depiction of working class life in Victorian London.

0.689 seconds.