Sentences with phrase «expanded railway networks»

With newly developed farming techniques and expanded railway networks, however, the final decades of the nineteenth century saw a tremendous boom in the upper Great Plains.

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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.

An ever - expanding network of roads, railways, rivers, and shipping lanes means that only 10 percent of the earth's surface is now remote, defined as being at least 48 hours away from a major city.

We might associate the boom in railways with the Industrial Revolution, but the international railway network is still expanding at a rapid rate, opening up all manner of new destinations.

Perhaps most encouraging, transportation companies like rail operator Network Rail and the Highways Agency have signed up to create and enhance pollinator habitats along railway verges and highways, essentially using Britain's existing network of transportation corridors to create habitat corridors that allow pollinators to move across the country and expand their hNetwork Rail and the Highways Agency have signed up to create and enhance pollinator habitats along railway verges and highways, essentially using Britain's existing network of transportation corridors to create habitat corridors that allow pollinators to move across the country and expand their hnetwork of transportation corridors to create habitat corridors that allow pollinators to move across the country and expand their habitat.