Sentences with phrase «railway which»

Today, there are nearly 50,000 and Tigard's growth was contributed to the Oregon Electric Railway which started construction in 1910.

The trail follows a little - used railway which is largely flat and easy to follow.

My final journey is on the Snowdon Mountain Railway which opened in April 1896 and has been running ever since.

After a day at leisure, Day 5 features a journey on the Núria Valley Rack Railway which takes you into the Núria Valley itself.

There are also historic towns, National Trust properties and excellent craft galleries to visit cycling through picturesque rolling countryside, and along parts of the Riesling Trail, a disused railway which is now a cycle track between wineries.

The resort has its own funicular, a private railway which allows for easy access to the beach, the clifftop pool and the lighthouse, amongst other beautiful features.

Important during the gold rush of the 1860's, it was the Canadian Pacific Railway which finally put in on the map when it arrived in 1883.

Today we take a journey by steam train on the narrow - gauge Pinzgau Railway, an archetypal rural railway which runs between Zell am See and the village of Mittersill.

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

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

In addition to visiting the bridge itself, it's also possible to take a train trip on this railway which took two years and many lives to create.

Take a trip on the Nilgiri Mountain Railway which runs between Coonoor and Kallar offering wonderful views of the cliffs, tea estates and forests.

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.

The railway which weaves through the Barron Canyon was opened in 1891.

BRIEF HISTORY Brecon Mountain Railway was built on part of the abandoned Brecon and Merthyr Railway which was originally built in 1859 and finally closed in 1964.

Angels Flight is an inclined railway which takes passengers up Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles.

The city also boasts fantastic transport networks, particularly its railways which make the city somewhat of an international hub.

Our rail holidays in England feature journeys on renowned heritage railways which travel through breath - taking scenery, offering you the chance to witness parts of England that are normally only accessible to the most avid walkers.

When you select one of the luxury rail tours in India, your journey will be on the most famous modern and historic railways which has long since knitted together a whole nation.

Not exact matches

Lam points to the $ 50 billion that China has earmarked for investment in a port, railways, and roads in western Pakistan, in particular in the province of Balochistan, which has been plagued recently by separatist terrorism.

The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

In 2015, the company spent $ 57.5 million to buy Mobil Capital Holdings, which owned and operated Saskatchewan's Big Sky Rail and Last Mountain Railway.

The crude oil trade was largely responsible for turning around the fortunes of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, which owned the train that was eastbound through Lac - Mégantic.

Currently, the global railway market is dominated by Canada's Bombardier, Germany's Siemens and France «sAlstom, which are known as the «Big Three.»

The Environmental Protection Authority has recommended that Rutila Resources» proposed 205 - kilometre railway and conveyor line in the Pilbara, which will be used to support new iron ore mines, should gain ministerial approval.

Henry Huttleston Rogers came up with the machinery by which naphtha could be separated from crude oil and was also the guy who thought of using long pipelines to transport oil instead of railway cars.

But the FT reported that China's state - run China Railway Engineering Corp., which is part of the buying consortium, had said in a filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that the purchase price was equivalent to $ 1.2 billion, $ 500 million less than 1MDB announced.

After all, Canadian National Railway operates a line that parallels the route of the Northern Gateway pipeline which, even if it gets approved, won't be in service until at least 2018.

Trinity, which operates railway and construction businesses, reported that its revenue had fallen to $ 4.5 billion in 2016, due primarily to lower demand for transportation via its railcars and inland barges.

But most people in the room, French and English alike, soon forgot about politics when Harrison started speaking about improving railway performance, which he has repeatedly proved he can do like nobody else in the business, so long as he is allowed to do things his way.

This includes borrowing to finance the transcontinental railways, which built our country, and the St. Lawrence Sea Way, which connected our western provinces to global markets.

The rest of his fortune is managed through closely held Cascade Investment, which controls stakes in dozens of publicly traded companies, including Canadian National Railway, Deere and Ecolab.

The decision followed a four - day hearing into the proposed US$ 6bn combination of Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Canadian National (RG 2.00 p66) during which most other railways and shipper representatives opposed the combination with a barrage of complaints based on the delays and disruption that have followed other recent mergers.

It was only with the construction of a national railway system in the middle decades of the 19th century, using coal rather than muscle as its source of mechanical energy, that transport could achieve advances to parallel those already long achieved in the branches of industry in which cheap and abundant heat energy was the key to rapid expansion.

Large railway projects in Central America in the late 1800s facilitated industrial banana production and trade [10], which was entirely based on «Gros Michel» bananas [8].

National Bank analysts Travis Wood, Dan Payne and Brian Milne said in the note they were watching to see if more oil was moving out of Alberta and Saskatchewan on railway cars to clear out of the glut of crude in storage in Western Canada, which has weighed on domestic oil prices and producers.

The conventional image of the railway as a national project owes much to the appeal of Pierre Berton's books, which drew on its construction — with all the blood, sweat and scandal that went into it — as a metaphor for nation building, a physical extension of Confederation into western Canada.

Matt Vickers describes the gathering in High Level two weeks ago as a «coming out party» for a railway project to which he and his partners have devoted much of the past decade — and it doesn't...

Matt Vickers describes the gathering in High Level two weeks ago as a â $ œcoming out partyâ $ for a railway project to which he and his partners have devoted much of the past decadeâ $» and it doesnâ $ ™ t...

Bitcoins are indeed one of the technological revolutions, which has enabled countries to benefit from these technologies and also position themselves early on the progress, just like the US railway system in the 1800s.

The group's surge to a leading position in our latest industry rankings was led by Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and The Greenbrier Cos. (GBX), which advanced 19 % and 15 %, respectively, during the latest six - week stretch.

Canadian oil producers have struggled to find sufficient rail cars to move their barrels since TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone pipeline spilled in South Dakota last year and have turned to securing railway cars to move their barrels, a situation which has exacerbated problems for farmers moving their grain off the prairies.

A religion which doesn't fly planes into buildings in the US, bomb railways in Europe, and so on.

Part of his time was spent with other prisoners quarrying a large cutting for the railway, which would earn the macabre name «Hellfire Pass», so called because the sight of emaciated prisoners working by torchlight resembled a scene from hell.

A Church Army employee has completed an «exhausting» challenge of visiting each London Underground railway station in one day, after being inspired by a ministry which helps homeless women.

Alongside Novak's picture of the abundance which capitalism produces there needs to be placed another equally significant image — that of decaying, broken - down bus and railway systems; underpaid teachers, policemen, firemen and social workers; overcrowded and understaffed public hospitals; jails and rehabilitation facilities extended far beyond their reasonable capacities.

A railway - car fire in the town of Godhra, which killed a number of Hindu pilgrims, erupted into a weeks - long concerted massacre directed against Muslims throughout the state.

(See Carl F. Burke, God Is for Real, Man [New York: Association Press, 1966], p. 39) A generation ago, a viable model was «Railways to heaven,» which at least was closer to the truth than «God is my co-pilot.»

At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station.

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.