Sentences with phrase «of railway track»

Though over 12,000 miles of railway track has been converted to parks and bike trails across the country, similar reuse of urban rails is a newer idea.

Even in a city you don't have to look far — front gardens, parks, grass verges, even along the edges of railway tracks.

The city should continue to spend on rail transport, even though the number of railway tracks already doubled in advance of the games, U.N. officials say.

By understanding where in the tracks the ballast traps the most energy, these results particularly open new perspectives on increasing the lifetime of railway tracks and reducing maintenance costs.

Law makers have had to make tough decisions about the width of railway tracks so that train manufacturers can work to a standard size.

Hit a pothole or run over a set of railway tracks and you'll know it.

Still, with only two major streets, one of them railway tracks, Aguas Calientes doesn't do badly for itself.

The Bay Bridge that connects San Francisco to Oakland is an amazing bit of engineering; it had an upper deck for cars, a lower deck for trucks and two sets of railway tracks.

Not exact matches

In 1886 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Missouri Pacific Railroad both built railroad tracks heading west from the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in Kansas to Greeley County on the western border, roughly 200 miles away.

In his book «Irrational Exuberance», Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale University, tracks the p - e ratio of America's S&P 500 over 120 years, a period that covers huge technological change: America's railway boom, electricity, telephones, radio and cars.

Following the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, Raitt oversaw a series of new safety oversight measures, including restrictions on single - person crews and unattended trains, and improved tracking or labelling of dangerous oil products.

When it was done, the railway consisted of 582 miles of permanent track, weighing 50 pounds per yard, with 162 bridges.

I walked along a meandering bike path beside the railway tracks filled with green trees and the occasional chirp of a bird.

And when I added up all those trips, I realized that I've ridden nearly 40,000 miles on the Trans - Siberian tracks, spent a total of three months on Russian trains (from gritty «hard class» to glitzy luxury class), and eaten 270 meals on (or near) the railway diners.

He filled eight railway tank cars with pure artesian drinking water, equipped them with multiple faucets and drinking cups on chains and strung them out along a track of their own.

Whether you're in need of track for your latest model railway, buildings, cars, coaches or freight; discover a whole mini world of Hornby accessories and everything you need to get moving.

The venue is a former railway station, so be on the lookout for puns about «going off the rails», «one - track mind» and «train of thought».

The Democrat announced Tuesday that the Department of Environmental Conservation is filing a petition to the Surface Transportation Board seeking to stop Saratoga and North Creek Railway from leasing its tracks for storage of unused rail cars.

There's a bit of confusion tonight surrounding the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling's (29 November 2017) announcement to set out a new vision for our railways, which includes plans to end the operational divide between track and train and an evolution of the franchising system.

«Conference calls on a future Labour government to run our railways in the interest of passengers by retaining and extending this successful model of public ownership to each franchise as it expires and by integrating track and train operations,» he said.

Railway systems are designed for a 50 - year lifespan, which is calculated on the integrity of the materials used, and most railways are built along one of two common track systems: rails set on railway ties (U.S.A.) or sleepers (UK), which are then «ballasted» into beds of rock or gravel; or rails that are set onto concreteRailway systems are designed for a 50 - year lifespan, which is calculated on the integrity of the materials used, and most railways are built along one of two common track systems: rails set on railway ties (U.S.A.) or sleepers (UK), which are then «ballasted» into beds of rock or gravel; or rails that are set onto concreterailway ties (U.S.A.) or sleepers (UK), which are then «ballasted» into beds of rock or gravel; or rails that are set onto concrete slabs.

«Global warming and climate change... increase the renewal and wear rates of lubrication materials, as well as the possibility of track twisting and buckling,» said Kaewunruen in an earlier paper with Lei Wu, who is currently working on the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore High Speed Railway.

«All railway systems suffer rapid track deterioration at the transition zones requiring high maintenance costs,» said Sakdirat Kaewunruen, Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Although we'll never know for sure how they got there, one theory is that they traveled as invisible cargo in migrant construction workers hired to lay railway track from Mozambique to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire).

Now, 140 years after the transcontinental railroad's nearly 2,900 kilometers of track first connected both U.S. coasts, a number of states are hoping for a second golden age of rail, this time fueled by the Obama administration's pledge of billions of stimulus dollars for high - speed railway development.

Dedicated tracks are important to the development of high - speed railways.

The tracks of this cellular railway are almost unimaginably small — just 25 nanometers across (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter).

The tip - tracking TOG - TACC machinery acts as a catalyst of microtubule assembly, and it turns out, based on the new results, that TOG - TACC is a very unusual type of catalyst that stabilises its product (the microtubule railway) as well as speeding up its growth.

Professor Cross said: «It has been known for some time that a team of proteins called TOGs sits on the tip of the growing microtubule track and works like a team of tiny railway workers to rapidly lay the new microtubule track.

Every cell in our bodies contains a railway network, a system of tiny tracks called microtubules that run between important destinations inside the cell and allow cargo to be carried from one place to another, reports Professor Rob Cross, Professor of Mechanochemical Cell Biology at Warwick Medical School.

Professor Rob Cross, Professor of Mechanochemical Cell Biology at Warwick Medical School, said: «Every cell in our bodies contains a railway network, a system of tiny tracks called microtubules that run between important destinations inside the cell and allow cargo to be carried from one place to another.

Their work, published in the November issue of Computational Mechanics, shows that this trapping phenomenon, which is very dependent on train speed, could cause accelerated ballast degradation in railway tracks.

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.

When Keaton did stunts playing pickup sticks with railway ties to clear the track in front of a moving locomotive, say, he actually did the stunts.

BEST PICTURE The lack of Best Director consideration will nix the night for The Water Diviner and The Railway Man; so too Tracks, though John Curran's brilliant work was wrongfully snubbed.

When Tsanko reports a large amount of money on the railway track, government press officer Julia Staykova (Margarita Gosheva) sees an opportunity to deflect awkward questions about corruption.

Coffee and sugar came in from South America and the West India Islands on great clipper ships, and the barrels of oysters and family flour moved out on the multiplying railway tracks toward Philadelphia and Washington.

Coined the Goods Line and operated by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, a 500 - metre stretch of disused railway track will link Ultimo and Haymarket to Darling Harbour and the public space will be replete with greenery, bicycle tracks and seating areas.

Want the romance of the railways, the thrill of the track?

Rail enthusiasts have set in motion a revival of the Welsh Highland Railways and Ffestiniog Railway bringing the steamy affair of vintage travel by railway through this amazing landscape, right back onRailway bringing the steamy affair of vintage travel by railway through this amazing landscape, right back onrailway through this amazing landscape, right back on track.

Discover the glorious landscapes of Austria and the Danube Valley from the tracks of its delightful railways.

A group of Canada geese stand on railway tracks with smokestacks in the background at Hamilton Harbour in Hamilton, Ont.

Your journey to Kuranda is all part of the attraction as you will be transferred by coach from your Palm Cove accommodation to either the historic Kuranda Scenic Railway which winds its way thru the hand cut mountain tracks and tunnels, past cascading waterfalls and dangerously deep gorges or to the Skyrail Gondola that glides over above the towering rainforest canopy.

Located in Kancahnabrui, the tracks go on for miles acting as an eerie reminder of the torment that took place to make this railway.

At Lyndhurst we begin our journey up the famous Oodnadatta Track, following its historic route of the cameleers and the Old Ghan Railway.

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The Longreach Motor Inn is a magnificent 3.5 star accommodation house adjacent to the town centre of Longreach, close to the historic railway station, kids playground and landscaped walking / bike track.

This is a tame bird that is often seen along the roads and railway tracks in Aguas Calientes — it is conspicuous because of its» rust red colour.

Clovelly was designed to be secluded from the everyday noises of passing cars and local railway tracks to truly entrench your senses into your game.

Here you take a ride on the Drachenfelsbahn, Germany's oldest cog railway from the bottom of the valley, up to 722 feet, in just one mile of track.