Sentences with phrase «ghan railway line»

With the West's infrastructure falling apart, we envy their vast network of high - speed railway lines — more extensive than in the rest of the world combined — never mind the 5,000 kilometres to be laid over the next two years alone.

«In 2009, blue lights were installed at the end of platforms on Tokyo's Yamanote railway line to reduce the incidence of suicide.

As president of the once moribund American railway line, he'd transformed it into a super-efficient powerhouse; CN, grasping his genius, appointed him chief operating officer, later elevating him to CEO in 2003.

Trying to justify the airport link by extending the railway line to Forrestfield takes buying votes to a reckless leval.

Halifax's South End, where all of Nova Scotia's richest inhabitants make their homes, owes its secluded enclaves to the blasting process that cleared the space for the railway line that paralleled the shore of the Northwest Arm.

One current use - case is inspecting railway lines for targeted maintenance.

In November, work began in Serbia, an EU membership candidate, on a railway line from its capital Belgrade to the Hungarian capital Budapest.

The area was originally serviced by the St. Louis - San Francisco Railway line and today, by the Stan Stamper Municipal Airport.

As railroad stocks soared to astounding heights, railroad companies massively overbuilt thousands of kilometers of railway lines throughout the UK.

Clearing trees beside railway lines can cause soil erosion and even land slippageSandra Laville's article (Mile after mile of stumps: anger at trackside tree cull, 30 April) once again highlights decisions about tree care and management being made without a full understanding of the roles of trees and other vegetation in the landscape.

Trains on the nearby Cardiff to Newport railway line operated with a restricted timetable as a precaution in response to the incident.

My intention was that, if I got no satisfaction, I would place my head upon the railway line when the five o'clock train passed by and kill myself.

In later years, thanks to the construction of the Military Arsenal of La Spezia and to the building of the railway line between Genoa and La Spezia, the inhabitants were able to escape their isolation.

During the Victorian railway boom the railways expanded, and by the turn of the century Shepparton was central to a large network of regional branch lines on the Toolamba — Echuca railway line — lines leading to Cobram, Nathalia, Dookie, Picola and Katamatite.

On 10th November 2009, after telling his wife he was going to work, Enke instead drove to a railway line and stepped out in front of an express train.

Firstly, there is the fact that there are houses very close to the ground behind this stand and, secondly, there is also a railway line.

I also suspect that by the time we played there it was a remnant of the farm north of the railway line that had been built in the 1850s.

A project team spokesman told a Chelsea fan group before Christmas: «We hope, subject to approvals, to start (work) in the third quarter of 2018 including the museum and health club being demolished, with work on the railway lines starting in 2019.»

Located at the site of the abandoned Bloomingdale railway line, the elevated «urban oasis» runs along Bloomingdale Ave. (1800 N), from Ridgeway Ave. (3750 W) on the west to Ashland Ave (1600 W) on the east, through the Bucktown, Wicker Park, Humboldt Park, and Logan Square neighborhoods.

This in itself would be an amazing admission that two sets of figures exist for working purposes for one railway line and its passengers.

And I have put a couple of questions to John Redwood in his thread this morning, where he also makes the point «We do look to government to organise the roads and railway lines.

In this regard, it is seeking partnerships to extract and process the massive deposits of bauxite at Nyinahin and Kibi, with a potential value of $ 460 billion, to fund the construction of thousands of kilometres of railway lines, roads, provide irrigation facilities and dams, and construct bridges, among others.

Engineers are today warning that the current High Speed 2 proposals must learn from the mistakes made during the planning of the first high speed railway line which connects London and the Channel Tunnel.

• Western Railway Line (Takoradi - Kumasi) • Eastern Railway Line (Accra - Kumasi) • Central Railway (Kumasi — Paga) • Accra City Rail • Kumasi City Rail • Pwalugu Multi-Purpose Dam and Solar Hybrid Project • Accra - Kumasi Highway • Volta Lake Transportation Project • Integrated Bauxite and Aluminum Development Project with aluminium refineries (and bauxite mines) at Nyinahin and Kyebi

Feasibility Studies for the development of Boankra Inland Port and Eastern Railway Line using PPP was completed and approval granted.

Work commenced on the 85 km Akosombo - Tema railway line from the Tema Port to link the Volta Lake via the Akosombo Port, as part of a multi-modal transport system to facilitate the transfer of containerized cargo by rail to and from the Tema Port.

In this role, he pioneered the plan for High Speed 2, the proposed high - speed railway line from London to Birmingham and the north of England.

The opening of the Borders railway line between Edinburgh and Tweedbank marked a significant, if limited, infrastructure gain for the region.

The incident which involved the train that rammed into a trailer on the railway line along Fagba resulted in a multiple crash among trucks and vehicles.

He mentioned that the government had started constructing the railway line from Sekondi - Kojokrom - Takoradi as part of efforts to revive the railway system.

The government announced plans on Sunday for a # 9bn investment in the rail network, including electrification of railway lines and a fund to pay for reopening lines and stations, which Cameron declared would be the biggest rail spending spree since Victorian times.

I announced this morning that we want to see the completion of the Cambridge to Oxford railway line, because that railway line is in part of the country where we think a lot of the new garden cities need to be established.

Another walk I completed during the course of the year was the Ystwyth Trail, running from Aberystwyth to Tregaron along the old railway line that used to go from Aberystwyth to Carmarthen.

Sir David Higgins, who is taking over the body developing the high - speed railway line between London and Birmingham, has been stating his case for the new rail line.

«One legacy project Nana Akufo Addo wants to leave at the end of his tenure of office is the construction of a railway line from Accra to Paga.»

The 1 - District -1-Factory policy, President Akufo - Addo noted, will be rolled out in the course of August, and the construction of the Western Railway lines will also begin shortly.

A young Tory activist who made allegations of bullying within the Conservative Party and was later found dead on a railway line after being hit by a train, took his own life, a coroner has ruled.

Hein is committed to removing the tracks and converting the railbed into a pedestrian trail, while Bernardo favors reactivating the privately owned railway line.

Key among these projects, is the completion of the railway lines along the Sekondi to Takoradi via the Kojokrom section.

The Chief Engineer of the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL), Mr William Ackun, has called for the immediate suspension of train services on the Accra - Tema railway line until maintenance work is carried out.

Her Renault Clio was parked across a railway line.

Similarly, industrial and urban construction to produce mines, damns, roads, railway lines etc permanently destroy Sungazer habitat — Sungazers have never been known to inhabit previously human - modified land.

At the same time, further operation of the railway line as a tourist attraction will be ensured.

Since 2010, the railway line has been operated as a tourist attraction and developed to a major infrastructure for the spa of Welzheim.

New York City's Highline Park, where native species have been planted on abandoned railway lines to create urban spaces where art, education and recreation intersect and are accessible to all, is an example of this.

A Union Pacific railway line crosses the lake, dividing it into a smaller north arm and a larger south arm, with the line drawn right at the base of the bunny - ear - like northern extensions of the lake.

The earthquake damaged schools, hospitals, roads, railway lines, factories, chemical plants, power lines and dams.

SUSAN is on a 2 - day holiday, staying near one of the stations on the East - West railway line.

At the other end of the scale are the modest efforts that make use of disused railway lines to join patches of wasteland in inner cities, bringing a taste of the countryside to town dwellers.

For the residents of Towyn, a town on the North Wales coast, the engineers arrived too late to repair their sea wall, which was built 100 years ago to protect the coastal railway line.