«Following eighteen miles of blissfully level, mostly traffic - free disused
railway track from pretty - as - a-picture Padstow to the foot of Bodmin Moor, Cornwall's Camel Trail is about as perfect a cycle route for families as it's possible to imagine.
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).
The hike along
the railway tracks from the Hydro Electrico to Aguas Calientes is an iconic part of the journey to Machu Picchu.
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.
Among other things, a grand jury alleges the suspects, along with another Illinois man, put a bomb on railroad
tracks near Effingham, Ill. in an attempt to extort money
from the Canadian National
Railway.
A very recent work, «Iron Path» (1986), shows a bleak, gray, incinerated landscape in which a
railway track leads
from the foreground to a junction at which the
track splits and goes off in two directions to nowhere.
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.
Blisters aside, the boots stood up well to winter conditions that varied
from beach walking, flat muddy
track with slippery historic
railway sleepers, irregular rock scrambling and boardwalk.
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.
Will any added warmth — either
from climate change or the
railway itself — destabilize the
track's frozen foundation?
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.
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.
Discover the glorious landscapes of Austria and the Danube Valley
from the
tracks of its delightful
railways.
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.
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.
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.
The last survivor of the trench
railways from the battlefields of World War I, the Froissy Dompierre Light
Railway runs on narrow - gauge
tracks from Froissy to Dompierre - Becquincourt in the Somme department.
The «Furka Cogwheel Steam
Railway» DFB AG was founded and with volunteers
from the six world
track and also the rolling stock has been put back into operation in stages.
The Great Central
Railway is the only double track, main line heritage railway in the UK, and the ideal day out from our East Midlands Airport
Railway is the only double
track, main line heritage
railway in the UK, and the ideal day out from our East Midlands Airport
railway in the UK, and the ideal day out
from our East Midlands Airport hotel.
The famous blue limousine on
railway tracks owned by Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC), Deccan Odyssey is all set to chug on its maiden voyage for the upcoming run season beginning
from 3rd march, 2012.
At 11 am we set off on the
railway track which travels high above the road, Route 306, seeing spectacular views in places which it would have been impossible to see
from the coach.
Follow the Oodnadatta
Track from Marree to Oodnadatta stopping at Lake Eyre, normally a dry salt pan, historic
railway sidings, telegraph stations and natural artesian waterholes, the Mound Springs and Coward Springs complete with natural spa.
Air conditioning - Entire property is air conditioned - Entire property is non-smoking - Historic building - Lift / elevator - Credit card accepted - Guarded car park - Private parking - Own garage - Covered parking - Shuttle service
from and / or to the airport - Shuttle service
from and / or to the
railway station - Rent a car in the hotel - Satellite TV - TV Room - TV Lounge - Reading lounge - Reading room - Snack bar - Bar - Cafeteria - Restaurant / Dining - Restaurants - Laundry service - Room service - limited hour - Front desk - safety deposit box - Front desk - 24 hour - Front desk - fax service - City tour - Newspapers - City guide - City maps - Tourist information - Luggage room - Multilingual staff - Banqueting service - Outdoor swimming pool - Children swimming pool - Jogging
track - Tennis court - Table tennis - Sailing boats - Air conditioning - Individually controlled air conditioning - Heating - Baby cots / cribs available - Rooms with sea view - Ironing facilities on request - Hairdryer in each room - Safe - Non-smoking rooms available upon request - Non-smoking rooms - Mini bar - Direct dial phone - Telephone - TV - Satellite TV - Desk - Meals for groups - Bike rental - Wireless Internet access - Extra beds - Wireless Internet connection in the entire property -
This early American narrow gauge railroad
from a bygone era are the same
railway tracks taken by old west miners, cowboys and early settlers dating back to the 1800's.
Soak up history at the former penal colony of Port Arthur, Hobart s historic waterfront and numerous gracious Georgian farmhouses throughout the countryside, walk over Cataract Gorge, a dramatic wilderness right in the centre of Launceston, take the Overland
Track through the scenic beauty of Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park, admire the perfect curve of Wineglass Bay in Freycinet National Park, watch the majestic Gordon River meet the wild Franklin River in the spectacular wilderness of the Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, take a scenic rack - and - pinion
railway to historic Queenstown, once the world s richest gold and copper mine and walk to Montezuma Falls, Tasmania s tallest waterfall,
from the peaceful town of Rosebery.
This show may not offer any big new revelations about the nature of the circle, but it brings together a magnificent, occasionally mad cornucopia of rounded works,
from the London Underground sign
from Oval station to magical pieces of Zen Buddhist calligraphy, created during a single exhalation of breath;
from Marcel Duchamp's Anaemic Cinema, a whirling «psychedelic» animated film
from 1925, to Chicago artist Theaster Gates's A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, in which a stuffed goat on a tricycle, originally used in Masonic ceremonies, runs noisily round a circular
railway track.
In Cyprus, there's a disused copper mine, and the
railway track for the cargo comes down
from the mine to the sea.
Shot
from a wide range of places, including private gardens, parks,
railway tracks, and the perimeter fence around Heathrow airport, they record the daily passing of the airplane.
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.
From the engineer who keeps the
railway tracks clean to the coordinator who monitors traffic signals, the field of transportation is about public safety and personalized customer service.
I especially love the Eiffel sideboard and this Louvre coffee table made
from reclaimed telephone poles and
railway tracks.