Sentences with phrase «railway tunnels»

Located about 16 miles south of the former capital of Bonn, among the beautiful vineyards of the Ahr Valley, it was built between 1960 and 1972 inside two railway tunnels.

Railway tunnels and depots may not be as snazzy as bridge and airport dedications, but it has become a much delayed lesson for you to learn about the relevance of all transport infrastructure.

This past November, the ground gave out near the entrance to a railway tunnel in Badong County, near a tributary to the Three Gorges reservoir; 4,000 cubic yards (3,050 cubic meters) of earth and rock tumbled onto a highway.

Its palpable absence appeals to the vertiginous gaping hole at the centre of John Stezaker's Mask (Film Portrait Collage) CCIV (2016) just opposite, in which an Alpine view from the mouth of a railway tunnel interrupts a smart 1940s studio portrait of a woman: an expressway into the treacherous landscape of the mind.

This undeveloped plot with a surface area of 26 hectares is the largest piece of available empty land in Venice, which has made it the subject of countless speculation initiatives, such as the controversial idea of digging a railway tunnel under the lagoon to link the city with its airport, with a station located in this area.

At the far end, another crane - like timber scaffold supports a cylindrical shape, like a section of railway tunnel.

If recent events are anything to go by, the show will be popular: last weekend's Cans Festival, held in a London railway tunnel, was a huge bank holiday hit.

• Advised a contractor on the construction of a supermarket store above a railway tunnel which involved complex insurance issues

Not exact matches

More than 25 large - scale model railway trains and trolleys — including American steam engines and streetcars from the late 1800s to modern - day freight and high - speed passenger trains — travel across rustic bridges, along overhead trestles, through tunnels and past waterfalls that cascade into flowing creeks.

However, the Thomas And Friends Wooden Railway — Quarry Mine Tunnel and the Chuggington Wooden Railway Rocky Ridge Mine Tunnel are practically indistinguishable.

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Chuggington Wooden Railway Rocky Ridge Mine Tunnel 6.)

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.

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.

Seven trillion dollars spent in the Middle East while our roads, bridges, tunnels, railways (and more) crumble!

Ironically, Maria Eagle is now supporting a policy first floated and promoted by the Conservative Party in 2009 and backed by the creator of Britain's first high speed railway through Kent, between St Pancras and the Channel Tunnel (HS1).

The marvels of sewers, driverless railways, subterranean rivers, secret wartime factories and shelters, abandoned tram tunnels, and even schemes that never got under the ground, are all here.

The Swiss Kennel Club came into being in 1883, upon completion of the St Gotthard railway line and the famous tunnel through the Swiss Alps.

Your next day trip will take you on a scenic adventure with the Kuranda Scenic Railway as you travel along the mountains, through tunnels, past the waterfalls to Kuranda - the Village in the Rainforest, enjoy free time in the village for lunch or perhaps visit a wildlife park or the markets for a unique gift.

The railway now starts cutting through the landscape in a series of tunnels.

There have been close calls in the past — two locals in 2001 struck what they think was a supporting tunnel wall while digging near a local railway for the secret shaft.

The last leg is part of Stage 36 and starts in the village of Draga Sant» Elia following the course of the old Trieste - Hrpelje narrow gauge railway, through a couple of tunnels.

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

Built more than 120 years ago the Kuranda Scenic Railway is a two - hour journey taking you past the mountainous walls of the Barron Gorge National Park, through 15 hand carved, solid granite rock tunnels, 37 bridges and past tumbling rainforest waterfalls.

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.

They've been making an N - gauge model railway together and the next part of the layout is supposed to include a mountain with tunnels.

Travel to Kuranda onboard the Kuranda Scenic Railway which winds through 15 tunnels and past impressive Stoney Creek Falls and Barron Falls.

Travel to Kuranda onboard the Kuranda Scenic Railway which winds through 15 tunnels and past Stoney Creek Falls and Barron Falls.

The Astoria and Columbia River Railroad Company owned the railroad, and later in 1907, the Great Northern Railroad acquired the line and became part of the Spokane, Portland, and Seattle Railway Company, commonly known as the S.P. & S. Also learn how travelers used Hug Point as a roadway, and with the completion of the Arch Cape Tunnel, Cannon Beach would no longer be «the end of the road» but rather a place people would pass through but where, it was hoped, they would pause and spend some money, perhaps even stay a night or two.

The tunnels drive through solid rock and are remnants of the old Canadian Pacific Railway.

The final part of our journey on the Glacier Express takes us through expansive vineyards that line the surrounding hillsides to the small town of Brig.. Here we take the local railway for a wonderful journey over the imposing Kander Viaduct, through the old Lotschberg tunnel and past soaring mountain peaks to the town of Kandersteg.

The longest tunnel, just before the railway station at the village of Barog, spans more than a kilometre and at the time of its completion in the late nineteenth century was the longest rail tunnel in the world.

This required building seven kilometres of tunnels through the mountains, and means that over half of the railway journey is spent in tunnels through the mountain.

Trundling over gigantic glaciers, through burrowing tunnels and across ice cold, glimmering lakes, the Jungfrau Railway is a masterclass of structural design, navigating its way to places no other form of transport can.

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.

These picture - postcard views are punctuated by the Kalka - Shimla Railway's many turns, switchbacks, bridges and tunnels.

Further delights include a 53 metre tunnel at Drummond, built in 1878, and beautiful, historical railway stations.

Along the way, it passes through 91 tunnels and over 291 bridges in what is one of the most scenic railways in the world.

The train times its arrival to meet with the Flam railway, the steepest railway of its type in the world, the line drops 867 metres down to the town of Flam; past steep mountainside impressive waterfalls and through 20 tunnels it's clear to see why the Flam railway has been voted one of the world's best train journeys.

A slelection of tours: Glow Worm Tunnels, Lost City, Zig Zag Railway, Jenolan Caves, Capertee Valley, Kanangra Walls

Three decades later the Swiss entrepreneur and railway - builder Adolf Guyer - Zeller began construction of the nine - kilometre Jungfraubahnline from Kleine Scheidegg to Jungfraujoch Station, which required the construction of a single tunnel through the Eiger and Mönch mountains.

The railway from Belgrade to Bar on the Adriatic Sea is 454 km long and is one of the most scenic mountain lines in Europe with many bridges and tunnels.

The Scenic Railway descends 310 metres through a cliff - side tunnel, emerging into the lush rainforest on the Jamison Valley floor.

Traverse some of the most scenic railway lines in the world as the Golden Eagle Danube Express weaves its way through tunnels, across viaducts and over mountain passes.

As it passes through an impressive 15 tunnels and across 37 bridges, the railway affords panoramic views of the Barron Gorge National Park.

The Kuranda Scenic Railway with its 15 tunnels, 93 curves and dozens of difficult bridges opened in 1891 and was built using hand tools, dynamite and a pioneering spirit (and the lure of earning 90 cents a day).

From the Spiral Tunnels at Kicking Horse Pass to the place where the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed.

Built as a reference to a new railway transport bridge in the suburbs of Athens that was mysteriously sabotaged, the exhibition takes the form of «millions of microscopic fragments of phosphor - coated lamb glass, deformed metal and wood chips are still lying within the tunnel, mixed with the gray crushed stone of the railway».

Three of his greatest masterpieces of Impressionist landscape painting include: Still Glides the Stream (1890, Art Gallery of New South Wales), Spring (1890, National Gallery of Victoria), Fire's on Lapstone Tunnel (1891, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney), The Railway Station, Redfern (1893, Art Gallery of NSW), and The Purple Noon's Transparent Might (1896, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne).