Sentences with phrase «as railway»

The Heritage Conservation District has value in its representation of the history and development of the town of Collingwood from its founding in 1853 as a railway and shipping terminus on Georgian Bay, to a period of economic prosperity in the early 20th century.

The District preserves the historic street plan with its duo - orientation to the shipping and shipbuilding activity at the shoreline, as well as the railway line.

The city's leather industry, led by the Bona Allen Company, as well as its location as a railway stop, caused the population to expand during the early 1900s until after the Great Depression had ended.

Kudos for the depiction of the Lightning Network as a railway still under construction with the advice to «Check back in 18 months... maybe».

He began his career as a railway engineer, graduated in engineering and gained his doctorate in industrial engineering.

Pachauri trained as a railway engineer and later became an economist, he certainly knew a gravy train when he saw one.

As an aside and certainly not from your quarter, Pachauri of IPCC wrongly comes under criticism as a railway engineer out of his depth.

Tapping the touch pad displays the map, while vibration occurs when colliding with obstacles or vehicles and driving along uneven surfaces for your vehicle's tyres such as railway tracks.

Originating as a railway depot and hub in the 1870's, Clayton has grown into a year - round destination complete with community events, a fast - growing art scene, and a variety of outdoor activities.

The myriad of beautiful, bold and often bizarre buildings which act as railway hubs are the unsung heroes of rail travel, full of history, sublime architecture and astonishing feats of logistics.

As the railway tracks are still in very poor condition, train journeys are even longer, always delayed and extremely bumpy!

Originally built as a railway hotel, the building was converted into a convalescent home and military offices during WWII.

But the $ 80,000 a year Noel earns as a railway worker isn't enough by itself to cover the mortgage and other expenses if Julie stays home to look after the kids.

Lang's version of Zola's La Bête Humaine is, like all his best»50s work, as cold, hard and steely grey as the railway tracks which here mark out the action.

Public announcements in noisy places — such as railway stations, airports, or sports venues — could become quieter and clearer in future, thanks to new research.

But a seismologist in Southern California has set up a system that, within minutes of a tremor, provides organisations such as railway companies with estimates of the size, location and likely effects of the earthquake.

It has by far and away been the biggest local issue here for decades and is getting worse as the railway gets busier.

The most important being that the leadership of the National Assembly has given us a commitment that the National Assembly will re-instate the budgetary allocations for all the important executive projects, such as the railway standard gauge projects, the Mambilla Power Project, the Second Niger Bridge, the Lagos — Ibadan Expressway etc. which they had reduced to fund some of the new projects they introduced.

Life as a railway signaller turns out to be more monkish than life as a monk, especially on night shifts.

Experience as a conductor is needed to be a railway locomotive engineer, and you'll need to work as a railway yard worker to work as a yard locomotive engineer.

Khosrowshahi said that he wants to tap all customers boarding and de-boarding transporation systems such as railways or ferrys and later expand to flying cars.

Within 40 years, it was becoming obsolete, as railways began to supersede canals.

In Holland it as available on the railways as well as the railways stations and the concept has also been launched in Spain, Belgium, Denmark, Greece & France and the Far East.

Nationalising services such as the railways would cost the taxpayer «absolutely nothing», John McDonnell has said.

Therefore, we recommend that there should be merging of ministries such as Railways Development Ministry, Aviation Ministry, Ports and Harbour Ministry to Transport Ministry; the Local Government Ministry can take care of Regional Reorganization whiles Evaluation and Monitoring can be taken care of by a unit under the Chief of Staff.

Corbynism will offer the Red; it will be enormously refreshing to at last have an opposition that will make a stand against the savagery of austerity and seek to take back key strategic industries such as the railways into public ownership.

The trains that grace these railways are often as distinctive and memorable as the railways themselves.

A high enough carbon price would incentivise more efficiency and level the playing field for other, less polluting means of transport, such as railways, thus reducing overall emissions.

Agriculture minister hints at new regulations as railways aim to boost grain movement, Reuters

Further, the Supreme Court noted that safety has never been held to justify random testing even in the case of «highly safety sensitive» or «inherently dangerous workplaces» such as railways and chemical plants or those that pose a risk of explosion in the absence of a «demonstrated problem with alcohol use in that workplace» (CEP at para 45).

Not exact matches

April 23 - Canadian National Railway Co on Monday posted a 16.2 percent fall in quarterly profit as operating expenses shot up during the harsh winter, and the country's largest railroad cut its 2018 outlook as capacity limits strained its ability to meet high demand.

His plan was to step away, again, this summer, when he was scheduled to hand the CEO reins to longtime lieutenant Keith Creel and start a three - year tenure as a consultant (or, in his own words, a «hired hand») to the railway.

Last week, CN's smaller rival Canadian Pacific Railway reported first - quarter profit above analysts» targets as it shipped higher volumes of commodities, offseting the impact of higher expenses.

Currently, the global railway market is dominated by Canada's Bombardier, Germany's Siemens and France «sAlstom, which are known as the «Big Three.»

The CPR promoted the area as an exclusive enclave, and renamed it after the posh Montreal neighbourhood where the railway's president lived.

Cara got its start as the Canada Railway News Co. in 1883, building on the business of a few entrepreneurial Phelans who were selling apples and newspapers on trains leaving Toronto.

Railways, who added crude by rail capacity earlier this decade only to have the market vanish as pipeline space opened up, have been slow to move back in the oil transport business, asking producers to sign longer - term deals.

It also gives the Pacific Gateway and Canadian railways a competitive advantage over competing ports with shorter contracts such as Seattle and Long Beach, Calif..

«Since Sir John A. Macdonald laid a railway across a continent, infrastructure has been both an immediate response to an urgent need and a hopeful act of nation building,» Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said, casting deficit spending as a proud part of Canada's heritage.

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.

A recent Vancouver Sun story quotes Fred Green, CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway, as saying that he won't sacrifice safety in pursuit of profits.

The announcement comes days after the U.S. Justice Department urged the Surface Transportation Board to reject a voting trust arrangement Canadian Pacific Railway had proposed as part of its bid.

He put himself through the London School of Economics working as a waiter and railway porter.

Railways used to focus on filling as many train cars as possible; timing was secondary.

Activist investor William Ackman's drive to draft Hunter Harrison to run the railway has serious momentum, despite the obstacles — such as an incumbent CEO.

But most people in the room, French and English alike, soon forgot about politics when Harrison started speaking about improving railway performance, which he has repeatedly proved he can do like nobody else in the business, so long as he is allowed to do things his way.

In 2012 Ackman was instrumental in a proxy fight that installed Hunter Harrison as CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway; he is currently involved in a hostile takeover attempt of of Botox maker Allergan by Quebec's Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

And since Harrison had turned the U.S. railway into the most efficient railway in North America, while revolutionizing the business by introducing the concept of scheduled freight service, Michael Sabia, who was CN's CFO at the time, convinced Tellier to ask Harrison to stay on as chief operating officer.

Starting Friday afternoon, the ticketing machines of San Francisco's railway, known locally as Muni, read «You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted.»

Fred and Ron Mannix's wealth can be traced back to a day in 1898 when their grandfather, Frederick S. Mannix, bought a team of horses and launched a business as an earth - moving contractor, building branch lines for the Canadian Pacific Railway in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.