Sentences with phrase «standard gauge»

Next day I'm off to catch another train, this time running on standard gauge.

The Lagos to Ibadan segment of the Lagos to Kano double track standard gauge rail line project is targeted to be completed by the end of the year.

It is the only heritage standard gauge railway in North Wales.

Other supporting projects which have been approved are the procurement of more locomotives, coaches, wagons, workshops and equipment that will be used for new standard gauge lines.

Audi's slick Virtual Cockpit is offered with a 12.3 - inch screen in place of standard gauges, using quad - core processing and Google Maps.

The new Lagos - Ibadan rail, spanning 156.65 kilometres, is a double line, which is the first phase of a new Lagos - Kano standard gauge line.

Construction work on the Lagos - Ibadan standard gauge rail has been suspended over right of way issues and a flyover bridge at Ijoko, Ogun State.

Restored in 1975 by enthusiasts it is the only standard gauge heritage railway in North Wales.

The Llangollen Railway is run by volunteers and railway enthusiasts, and is the best preserved standard gauge steam railway in Wales.

The attractive Bluebell Railway is famous for being the first preserved standard gauge steam - operated railway to offer public service carriages.

The most important being that the leadership of the National Assembly has given us a commitment that the National Assembly will re-instate the budgetary allocations for all the important executive projects, such as the railway standard gauge projects, the Mambilla Power Project, the Second Niger Bridge, the Lagos — Ibadan Expressway etc. which they had reduced to fund some of the new projects they introduced.

«We fully intend to source further concessioning funding to ultimately upgrade this critical line to high speed standard gauge.

The alleged «mutilations» affect key infrastructure proposals, including the coastal Calabar - Lagos standard gauge rail project.

You may recall that I commissioned and flagged off the Abuja - Kaduna train service for both Passenger & Freight in July, 2016 which was Nigeria's first ever Standard Gauge train service.

The Itakpe to Warri standard gauge central line is expected to be commissioned by July this year and the extension from Itakpe to Abuja is being pursued vigorously.

You can not carry meaningful development on trucks on the highways... Development has to be carried on the back of a modern railway system and the president has made that a top priority and today we can say on the implementation platform is 5oookm of modern standard gauge railway that will cut across the length and breadth of this country.

Port Harcourt - Maiduguri standard gauge rail line will soon take off.

«The Nigerian government is building a rail road, a modernise one, from Calabar to Lagos, another one from Lagos to Kano, Lagos to Maiduguri, this is building standard gauge railway line.

Depending on your whims, using the large MMI controller in the center console or buttons on the wheel, you can call up screens that highlight the moving map, or the infotainment system, or big standard gauges, or a number of other configurations.

The example below is excellent because it shows standard gauges like speedometer and tachometer as live imagery rather than physical instruments along with a center display on a different angle that provides a visual of a 3D map so that drivers only have to take a quick glace down to see directions rather than having to look sideways at a live map found on an infotainment system display.

Data Guy's twofold message to DBW stressed that Author Earnings, while not perfect (its creation 0f an Amazon ranking - t0 - sales curve may be its most problematic feature for some), the protocol does (a) produce a nearly immediate analysis (standard gauges run three and four months after the fact) and (b) offers the only extensive means we have at this point of surfacing perspective on non-traditional parts of the publishing market.

«Similarly, we are investing in the Lagos to Kano standard gauge line, the Lagos Ibadan portion of that is expected to be ready by the end of this year.

The Minister of Transportation, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, who inspected the Lagos - Ibadan Standard Gauge railway praised the contractors on the current pace of work.

The governor accused the Senator of feeding the public with wrong information about the Lagos - Kano dual track - standard gauge rail system.

The literary tropes of sex and death in the Twilight series, it has to be said, are well worn, as worn as the ruts in the Roman roads that turned into the standard gauge for European railroads.

The other thing to keep in mind is that yardage estimates for blankets or anything else tend to be based on knitting Stockinette Stitch at the standard gauge for that yarn weight.

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).

Vanguard recalls that the House of Representatives, had on October 14 based on a motion promoted by Rep Solomon Ahwhinawi, PDP, Delta had set up the adhoc committee to probe contracts awarded for the rehabilitation of rail tracks, standard gauge, bridges, coaches, wagons and locomotives between 2010 and 2014 amounting to N1 trillion.

According to him, the government has ordered more Locomotives for the Standard Gauge rail lines.

The Obasanjo administration which Jonathan was not part of, designed, raised the financing and started the EPC of the Lagos - Kano dual track - standard gauge rail system, and the Abuja Light Rail.

According to him, former President Olusegun Obasanjo designed and raised the financing and started the «EPC of the Lagos - Kano dual track - standard gauge rail system, and the Abuja Light Rail.»

Nwodo also demanded urgent presidential interventions on the Enugu Airport, reticulation of the gas pipelines in the South - East and the standard gauge plan for railway construction.

* RAIL: Lagos - Kano Standard Gauge is on.

Amaechi said that government had commenced rehabilitation of the narrow gauge to reduce the pressure of cargoes on the road, adding that the challenges on the standard gauge was the track.

Subjects completed a standard gauge of their social status, placing an X on one of 10 rungs of a ladder representing their income, education, and how much respect their jobs might command compared with other Americans.

Inside, the driver faces a bank of three LCD readouts in place of the standard gauge cluster.

The R - Design gets sport seats, black mesh grille, hands - free tailgate, 12.3 - inch digital display that replaces the standard gauges, 19 - inch wheels, navigation, and paddle shift controls (it's the only model to get them).

The optional virtual cockpit replaces the standard gauge cluster with an all - encompassing media and information screen.

Only the most basic will come with standard gauges; all others get the backlit - style, crisper and easier to view, day or night.

The standard gauge display is an analog unit, and it comes with a small 5.5 - inch color screen in between two rounded dials.

The A5 Sportback / A5 cabriolet comes standard with the likes of the LCD instrument cluster display that replaces the standard gauges and a large infotainment system that is controlled by Audi's MMI or multimedia interface.

From that time on this measurement has been the standard gauge in England and the United States.»

In what is perhaps his best known film, Standard Gauge, [YEAR TK], a 35 minute long film shot in 16 mm, Fisher drew on his career as a film editor, displaying rejected scraps of various films, treating them as both material and medium as a means of addressing the film industry.

In 2005 - 2006, a retrospective of his films, Standard Gauge: Film Works by Morgan Fisher, 1968 - 2003, was held at the Whitney Museum and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.