Sentences with phrase «over railway»

Across the world, Singapore and Malaysia experienced frictions over a railway track owned by Malaysia that bisected its island neighbour; in 2010 they negotiated to swap the railway land for stakes in prestigious real estate.

Head out of Byron Bay town centre north over the railway line and turn left at Butler St. Take the second turn right into Burns St.

WALKING (FROM TOWN CENTRE BUS STOP): Burns Street is a 350m walk across over the railway line via the Railway Hotel.

Follow the road around over the railway line where it becomes Childe Street.

Instead, the hills of Skye tower over the railway station, only a short distance away across a narrow stretch of water.

A little farther away, a pair of blue - glazed buildings tower over the railway, making even the passing bullet trains look shabby.

But the IEA's new priorities — aggressively paying down public debt, cutting taxes on the better - off, leaving the EU, relaxing planning laws to promote housebuilding, paving over the railways and tackling the «cost of living crisis» through lower excise duties — can expect a more lukewarm response from the re-installed treasury team.

Backed up by new constitutional guarantees, Brown hinted, too, at giving the Scottish parliament greater power over the railways; party sources indicated that could allow a future Scottish government to bring rail services into some form of public ownership.

Not exact matches

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.

The groundbreaking ceremony was presided over by Indonesia's President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo, who signed an inscription on a large stone in Walini, a West Java town and location of one of the railway's eight stations.

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..

For instance, we found that Canadian Pacific Railway paid an average effective cash tax rate of just 1.8 % over the past decade.

In the 1880s, the most sophisticated railroad managers and some economists argued that railroads were «natural monopolies,» the inevitable consequence of an industry that required huge investments in rights of way over land, constructing railways, and building train engines and rail cars.

We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land,» Trump said, calling for public and private infrastructure investments of at least $ 1.5 trillion over 10 years.

The federal and state governments, and their associated regulatory bodies, should stay out of the battle over third - party access to BHP Billiton's Pilbara iron ore railway.

The two unions reached a tentative deal with Canadian National Railway Co. last month for new contracts for about 1,700 CN Teamsters workers and over 700 IBEW members.

Hackers infected a computer network operated by San Francisco's public railway system with malicious software over Thanksgiving weekend.

Bombardier is embroiled in a dispute with Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) over a 1.9 - billion - Swiss - franc ($ 2.3 - billion) contract for 59 passenger trains.

There's been no shortage of drama at Canadian Pacific Railway (TSX: CP) over the last few years, but the soap opera is finally over.

Instead, Singapore is focusing on public transit — S$ 20 billion ($ 14.7 billion) for new railway infrastructure and $ 2.9 billion on upgrading existing train lines, as well as another $ 2.9 billion on bus contract subsidies over the next five years, according to LTA.

Huerta did not explain the specifics of the two companies» drone projects but said that BNSF Railway wanted to fly drones beyond the line of site of operators and CNN wanted to fly drones over people.

The Philippine press is reporting that industry sources said that a consortium that is vying for the Light Railway Transit extension contract is on the verge of breaking up as two members (AMA Group Holdings and SNC Lavalin) are engaged in a dispute over who should supply the equipment and trains and how much funding the Philippine government should source.

Many Canadians would initially guess Asia Pacific immigration to Canada began in the second half of the 19th century with the arrival of thousands of Chinese who came over first for the gold rush and later to build the Canadian Pacific Railway.

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.

Canada's rail giants, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., currently have an advantage over shippers, the coalition said, and Ottawa's latest attempt to reform Canada's rail system doesn't go far enough in addressing those issues.

Meanwhile, Kansas City Southern Railway's cross-border intermodal volume in Mexico will continue to expand not just because of Mexican manufacturing growth, but because of the strong advantage rail has over the trucking industry south of the border, says Patrick Ottensmeyer, chief marketing officer at Kansas City Southern.

Since 1862, Union Pacific built and bought other extremely valuable railway assets all over the Western U.S..

I suppose I should have known what I was letting myself in for, but after about an hour's worth of extremely harrowing film depicting life in Nazi - occupied Poland, I finally cracked at the sight of a soldier pushing an empty pram [and at least it was empty] over the side of a railway platform.

The merely desultory way of conceiving the case, which has regard only to the new sin and passes over the intermediate state, the interval between the particular sins, is just as superficial a way of conceiving it as it would be to assume that the railway train moved only when the locomotive puffed.

Because, as it turns out, at the same time as the ACCC was keeping the Canadian barbarians from WA's railway gates it was also running a weather eye over the way CBH was running its business in WA.

It is not easy to climb down from such peaks of involvement when the game is over, and often the English fan takes out his frustration and high spirits on the British Railways as he rides home from the game.

However, when you go to the local toy store to buy a wooden railway roundhouse, you'll find that they are well over $ 75.

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David Cameron is in Dawlish on the Devon coast today, where a storm last week washed away sections of the seawall, leaving a railway dangling over the sea.

The creation of a standard gauge railway to Juba in South Sudan, with a branch line to Ethiopia, at a cost of over $ 7 billion (Sh595 billion).

That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.

RMT confirms further strike action on Northern Rail, Greater Anglia and South Western Railway in disputes over guards and safety

His comments come even as some organised labour groups including GHOSPA and railway workers are agitating over their placement on the single spine pay structure and poor remuneration, respectively.

And we have asked My Noble Friend Lord West to oversee over this summer a further overview of how best we protect crowded places and our buildings and national infrastructure - roads, railways, tunnels, bridges, water systems and utilities.

Over 7,500 new cycle spaces at railway stations and 38 new and improved routes have been agreed, as part of a # 30 million package of developments to connect communities, reduce carbon emissions, get people active and make cycling safer and more convenient.

The company is going to bring in over $ 2billion in the Nigerian railway sector, in which they are going to revive the Lagos - Kano narrow gauge and revive the Port Harcourt - Maiduguri narrow gauge by private investment.

If Corbyn is to gain votes from his plan to take over Britain's railways, he must also persuade voters that he know how to run the economy.

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.

This is the biggest expansion in railways in over 150 years, with more than # 9bn of investment across the country.

The government wants to increase capacity on the railways to accommodate 180 million more passengers over the next seven years, representing growth of 20 per cent.

But opposition MPs said the new capacity would not meet demand on the railways while doing nothing to address complaints over rising fares.

because if we don't do this it's patching up for the next 50 years an ageing Victorian railway system that is operating at a capacity way over than it was designed for.

Isn't it strange that Harriet Harman was never heard saying polls have shown over and over again that the majority of voters want the railways taken back into public ownership or that they think that local authorities should be responsible for schools?

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For instance, he favours nationalisation of Britain's railways and some utilities over their present near - monopoly status, harbours a visceral hatred of many Tories, and has had several conversations with Labour MPs about wooing them over to the populist Momentum - style movement that he intends to launch in the coming months.