Sentences with phrase «railway companies from»

The human experience of time itself was altered, with the development of the electric telegraph from 1837, [30] and the adoption of standard time by British railway companies from 1845, and in the rest of the world over the next fifty years.

To begin with, they wore the green and gold colours of the railway company from which they originated — a kit that was later revived by Manchester United in the Premier League years.

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Spotted at the reception were representatives from several prominent Canadian companies, including Lululemon, RBC, Telus, Indigo, Deloitte and Canadian Pacific Railway.

The celebrated railway executive officially retired from Canadian National Railway Company (CN) in 2009, after a long career running rarailway executive officially retired from Canadian National Railway Company (CN) in 2009, after a long career running raRailway Company (CN) in 2009, after a long career running railways.

The company doesn't pay a dividend and rarely buys back its own stock, so failing to consummate a few major transactions adds to the cash that keeps piling up from dozens of subsidiaries including insurer Geico and BNSF Railway.

We've seen litigation by coastal communities, railway activists, tribal communities, and even conservatives who claim our state is not for the explotative profit by companies from outside our state.

Hungary's budget deficit was 1.73 trillion forint in 2011, 252 percent of the government's initial year - end target, after the government assumed debt from counties and the state railway company in December, the Economy Ministry said in an e-mailed statement today.

The company also said that Bill C - 49's attempt to introduce new competition to the railways through so - called «long - haul interswitching,» or LHI, is unlikely to be useful because many shippers are exempt from the provision.

The railway did not respond to further questions, but Reuters, quoting officials from the company, said the oil aboard the train had come from the Bakken oil fields of the Western United States.

While Saratoga & North Creek Railway ran what the company says was its last tourist train on Saturday, Warren County leaders said they have heard from a representative of another railroad that is interested in excursion train operations on the county - owned line.

As the Saratoga and North Creek Railway plans to bring in revenue by storing train cars from other companies, environmental organizations are calling for the state to reject the plan in the interest of preserving the Adirondack Park.

And this list doesn't even highlight some of Governor Walker's other corporate donors including $ 51,000 from the BNSF Railway (RailPAC), $ 45,000 from the national construction company HNTB Holdings Ltd..

He received a Master of Arts degree from Eastern Michigan University in 1975, and then served in positions of progressively greater responsibility with the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, the Chicago, Missouri and Western Railway, and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company.

What began life as a wishful what - if exchange on Twitter has now grown into a full - blown authors» program from one of the US's dominant railway companies, Amtrak.

See artifacts from the Hudson Bay Company at the visitors center at the Churchill Heritage Railway Station and enjoy a lecture by a Parks Canada representative.

You can now book tours of it via companies like Klook, but if you want to do it yourself, head to Mahalaxmi Railway Station — it's only a few stops from Churchgate station.

Steve Jack from walking holiday specialists InnTravel (sister company of Great Railway Journeys, take note fellow rail fans!)

From Porthmadog, the oldest railway company in the world, still in operation, can be found actively running services on the Ffestiniog Rrailway company in the world, still in operation, can be found actively running services on the Ffestiniog RailwayRailway.

The company also decided to change the original plans for the line and move the railway terminus from the summit of Jungfrau, to Jungfraujoch.

Making the 5 - hour commute from Oslo to Stockholm by train is just an e-ticket away when you board with SJ, Sweden's most prominent railway company.

The Ffestiniog Railway was originally founded in 1832 as a means of transporting slate, and miners, from the quarries at Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, and claims to be the oldest independent railway company in theRailway was originally founded in 1832 as a means of transporting slate, and miners, from the quarries at Blaenau Ffestiniog to Porthmadog, and claims to be the oldest independent railway company in therailway company in the world.

WWF may refer to: World Wide Fund for Nature, a nature conservation organization previously named World Wildlife Fund (and still using the former name in some markets) World Wrestling Federation, the name used from 1979 to 2002 by the professional wrestling company now known as WWE Welded wire fabric, a reinforcing material typically used in poured concrete slabs Working Women's Forum, an organisation in India World Water Forum, an international forum for water issues Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's workflow management framework Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway, a former 2 foot gauge railroad in Maine, United States WWF (file format), a campaign to produce PDF electronic documents that forbid printing Words with Friends, a game for Apple and Android platforms Waterside Workers» Federation, a former Australian trade union, now the Maritime Union of Australia

The Trolley Car Barn was built by the Georgia Railway and Power Company in 1913 and the building served as a terminus for the trolley car system from Atlanta to Stone Mountain which was called the Atlanta Rapid Transit (thus the ART in the ART Station name).

On board were representatives from the UNEP, WWF, numerous railway unions, associations and companies, as well as NGOs, extreme skiers, solo ocean rowers and Indian dancers via the British Council.

In fact, the same company responsible for these farms has today unveiled a huge 1MW solar tunnel that will protect trains from falling trees (reducing the need for tree felling), and provide power to one of Belgium's most important railway stations in the process.

In exchange for building a railway from the Caribbean to the Pacific coasts of Honduras, fruit companies received 500 hectares of land from the government per kilometer of track that was laid.

Notable work included acting for Ukrainian company TAS Group on its purchase of 500 railway cars from a Russian leasing company, in the context of Russian and Ukrainian sanctions.

Individuals who have been injured in a rail accident caused by human error may be able to seek compensation from a variety of sources, including railway companies, the town or city in which the accident occurred, or, in the case of the Ottawa collision, the public transportation provider involved.