Sentences with phrase «of railway engineering»

Built by British colonists, the Kalka - Shimla Railway is an extraordinary feat of railway engineering.

Nicknamed El Nariz del Diablo - «the Devil's Nose», the troublesome mountainside and the problem it posed were finally surmounted in 1908 by an ingenious feat of railway engineering.

A remarkable feat of railway engineering, the Raurimu Spiral near the town of Taumaranui was constructed at the end of the nineteenth century to overcome terrain that was too steep to be negotiated by a direct rail route.

This steam train route has everything — mountains, lakes, sea views and spectacular feats of railway engineering.

Opinion on whether HS2 is a good or bad idea is divided to say the very least, and I don't propose to go into the arguments here although for the sake of full disclosure, I'm on the side of the antis, but it did annoy me that many people who were protesting that it would have a devastating effect on their lives were waved away with the flick of a railway engineer's hand.

To combat everything from thieves stealing metal from the tracks, to signalling problems calls for an expert team of railway engineers, station managers and many more, and women have played pivotal roles in all of these throughout history.

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During his 40 - year career with Canadian Pacific Limited, Bob worked in the engineering, signal, operating and marketing departments of Canadian Pacific Railway.

This idea also appealed to the imagination of William Van Horne, the railway's chief engineer and collector of Japanese porcelain, who dubbed the route «the new highway to the east».

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.

Pastrick, a former train engineer from Ravena, once drove freight trains on the Delaware & Hudson Railway and recalled one trip to the Port of Albany with a student engineer at the controls.

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 carriRailway 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 carrirailway line until maintenance work is carried out.

Building a railway across the unstable soil of the Tibetan Plateau was an improbable endeavor from the start, but an army of Chinese government engineers did it anyway.

That might not seem like much, but it is enough to outpace the rate predicted by railway construction engineers for the landmark rail line, which has carried some six million passengers and five million tons of cargo since opening day.

In early 2006, as the five - year construction project finally neared completion, a Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) engineer named Wu Ziwang predicted that the rate of change was more serious, concluding that the frozen ground supporting the railway could be soaked with puddles within a decade.

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.

The cause of the problem is, in fact, that our soon - to - be-privatised state railway ordered the trains in two batches: one from GEC - Alsthom and the other from BREL, the recently privatised engineering arm of British Rail.

According to Andres Lopez, professor of engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, twice as many miles of new railways are being planned as miles of motorway.

SNCF engineers have been using mathematical models for many years to simulate the dynamic behavior of railways.

Photo: Debi Enker A $ 16 million Australia - UK co-production, Jonathan Teplitzky's The Railway Man tells the story of Second Lieutenant Eric Lomax, a Signal Corps engineer from...

The Japanese are determined to build a railroad (later dubbed the «Death Railway») connecting Bangkok and Rangoon, through the impossible terrain of the jungles and mountains of Thailand, and they aim to use these POWs as their slave labor, including the engineers to design the massive undertaking.

This achievement of nineteenth century engineering provides a good starting point for examining the subsequent rapid adoption of railways and the impact of passenger rail travel on Victorian Britain.

Dorer is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance - of - Way Association, and the Transportation Research Board.

Civil engineers are specialized construction engineers, municipal engineers, transport engineers, water supply distribution engineers, and they are accounted for design, construction, and management of harbors, railways, sewerage system, water supply, and gas.

I am a long time resident of Alliance, NE and I have had a 25 year long successful career at BNSF Railway as a locomotive engineer.

Switzerland also reinforces the observation that sometimes the journey is as great an experience as the destination as you pause to admire some of the near - miraculous feats of engineering that were required to construct these railways.

Building the railway was an extraordinary feat of engineering, with 103 tunnels, more than 864 bridges and around 919 curves.

The Qinghai - Tibet Railway is a real masterpiece of engineering.

The region also holds more recent examples of human ingenuity, including a mountain railway that was one of the nation's most celebrated engineering feats of the late 1800s.

This takes you as far as Kleine Scheidegg, where you get the final, shiny, square, red number on a rack railway specially engineered for the steepest part of the climb, which whisks you all the way up to Europe's highest train station: Jungfraujoch.

Running along several mountains, the Flåm Railway is also an impressive feat of rail engineering, particularly as one of the steepest railways in the world, operating on a gradient of 5.5 %.

Although the above are all examples of popular long distance railways that are already in existence, this hasn't stopped engineers and developers from planning to build more.

Awarded UNESCO World Heritage status in 2008, the railway itself is a marvel of engineering, travelling from the Shivalik foothills through 102 tunnels, over 864 bridges and around 919 curves.

Some of the world's most famous and iconic railway journeys can be found in mainland Europe and Russia - from the pioneering engineering feat of the Jungfrau Railway to the lavish Trans - Siberian Express and Venice Simplon - Orient - Erailway journeys can be found in mainland Europe and Russia - from the pioneering engineering feat of the Jungfrau Railway to the lavish Trans - Siberian Express and Venice Simplon - Orient - ERailway to the lavish Trans - Siberian Express and Venice Simplon - Orient - Express.

The incredible West Highland Line is regularly voted as one of the most scenic railway lines in the world One of the most famous sights that the train passes crosses over is the famous Glenfinnan Viaduct, an utter marvel of engineering with 21 spans that harmonise perfectly with the surrounding rolling countryside.

As you ride on «El Chepe,» the Copper Canyon railway, you can enjoy the natural beauty as you marvel at the feat of human engineering that this railway represents.

Referred to as a «masterpiece of British engineering» the railway bridge was completed in 1900 by the British as a way of increasing their influence in the region (with the parts shipped over from the US).

The Copper Canyon, Mexico train ride is operated by Ferrocaril Mexicano along stretch of Chihuahua - Pacifico Railway, a modern marvel of engineering completed in 1961.

The mysterious disappearance of chief engineer Jonathan Finch interrupts the construction of a trunk railway.

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Influential innovations included steam - powered industrialization, and especially the development of railways, starting in Britain in the 1830s, [27] and the subsequent advancements in physics, engineering, and architecture associated with this.

SHOWS (selection) 2014 still on view: Kunst im Bau 5, installation in the former engineering workshops of the Isarthal Railway, Munich (curator Christoph Nicolaus) UNPAINTED media art fair, Munich, lab 3.0: positions of media art (curator Li Zhenhua) 2013 ikono On Air Festival on ikonotv, ikono Menasa and numerous locations in Berlin Villa Biesental, Berlin, K - Geist 100 Economy Pack Installation in the studio building of the City of Munich, K - Geist 100 Studio, (with Jutta Burkhardt) 2012 Satellite For Contemporary Art, Platform 3, Munich, Raw Material Artistic Spirit Repository For Knowledge And Art in the Syntopic Salon, Potsdam, Germany, a collaboration with the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Science Biennale For One, KloHäuschen Munich, Germany German Consulate General, New York, Etsi Omnes Ego Non 2011 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, USA, The Shadows of the Fire in my Mind, (solo show) Regensburg New Art Society, Regensburg, Germany, kitchnapping goes shopping Kunstherberge Birkenau, Munich, Germany, The Driftwood Project (Feb — Mai) Salon, ISCP Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA Künstlerforum Bonn, Germany (solo show) 2010 Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, New York, USA Gallery Bezirk Oberbayern, Munich, Germany, Et In Arcadia Ego, (solo catalogue) 2009 Ebersberg Art Society, Ebersberg, Germany Brainwash, performance at St Luke's Church, Munich Art Meets Fashion, nurjungekunst.de, Prater Island, Munich 2008 The Medium of Drawing, Great Art Show, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 2007 The Dark Side of Beauty, nurjungekunst.de, Munich, Germany real, sortiert, fingiert, Linhof - Gallery, Munich, Germany Centre for Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Goethe Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria 2006 Landshut Art Society, Landshut 2005 Ebersberg Art Society, Ebersberg art / s / hopping, Munich, Germany, (solo show) 2004 lab 30, Laboratory for Experimental Video and Sound, Kulturhaus abraxas, Augsburg, Germany

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Given it is a term that has been applied to failed politicians and railway engineers and a host of others who have had no formal acedmic training in the area, we can see that in pratice its far from clear what actually makes a person a climate scientists.

Booker, a history major at Cambridge, also frequently attacks the scientific credentials of the IPCC and particularly those of its chairman, Rajendra Pachauri, a «former railway engineer with no qualifications in climate science.»

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

The climate establishment and their ideological kin are desperate to counter the 16 year «pause» or flat lining of global temperatures - which the UK Met Office now figures will continue for at least another 5 years - that has now been acknowledged even by the IPCC's eminence railway engineer himself, Dr Pachauri.

On the subject of credentialism very few of the proponents of AGW have relevant credentials - the IPCC is headed by a railway engineer for a start.

Evidently architects and engineers in the UK have been putting a great deal of thought into «terror - proofing» buildings, undeniably a worthy cause, but this has lead to the decision to axe bike parking facillities at some major venues and railway stations (Bonnie already reported on the protests about this last week):

The Chinese would only need to build a couple and with their recent interest in high altitude engineering (Qinghai — Tibet railway) they may be up to the task of a 20 km + tall smokestack...