• The Edge Hill Light Railway, one of Colonel Stephens' light railways, was in Warwickshire, England. It was designed to carry ironstone from Edge Hill Quarries...
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    Edge Hill is an escarpment and Edgehill a hamlet in the civil parish of Ratley and Upton, Stratford-on-Avon District, southern Warwickshire, England....
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    extensively quarried for ironstone and a short industrial railwayEdge Hill Light Railway – existed for this purpose until the 1920s. Of interest at...
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    was to be extracted by the Edge Hill Ironstone Company.[page needed] A provisional railway company, the Edge Hill Light Railway, was formed, and the engineer...
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  • was a British light railway civil engineer and manager. He was engaged in engineering and building, and later managing, 16 light railways in England and...
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  • Ironstone Railway was one of the backers of the ill-fated 1920–1922 Edge Hill Light Railway. There was talk of reopening the Edge Hill Light Railway early...
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    Wapping or Edge Hill Tunnel in Liverpool, England, is a tunnel route from the Edge Hill junction in the east of the city to the Liverpool south end docks...
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    The Inner West Light Rail is a 12.8-kilometre (8.0 mi) light rail line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, running from Central railway station through...
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    List of LB&SCR A1 class locomotives (category London, Brighton and South Coast Railway locomotives)
    A1/A1X, which ran on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and latterly the Southern Railway network. The original names mainly denoted various places...
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    Ashley Hill railway station was a railway station serving the area of Ashley Down in the north of Bristol, England. It was located on what is now known...
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    1.26-mile (2.03 km) Wapping Tunnel to Liverpool Docks from Edge Hill junction. The railway was primarily built to provide faster transport of raw materials...
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    The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is an automated light metro system primarily serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London and providing a direct...
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    wood (wude). The "Edge" refers to the limestone escarpment of the Cotswold Edge which includes the hills of Wotton Hill and Tor Hill that flank the town...
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    art collection and is managed by the National Trust. In 1922 the Edge Hill Light Railway was built through the village to carry ironstone from a local quarry...
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    The Ashover Light Railway was a 1 ft 11+1⁄2 in (597 mm) narrow gauge railway in Derbyshire, England that connected Clay Cross and Ashover. It was built...
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    Cotswolds (redirect from Cotswold Edge)
    across the hills from Swindon via Stroud to Gloucester, carrying fast and local services. Mainline rail services to the big cities run from railway stations...
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    the Liverpool Daily Post reported that a new Merseyrail Light-rail tram-train link from Edge Hill in the east of the city to the Arena at Kings Dock near...
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    centerline lights, taxiway centerline and edge lights, guidance signs, and obstruction lighting. LEDs are also used as a light source for DLP projectors, and to...
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    tramway, the Kinver Light Railway, connected Kinver to the Birmingham tram system. The National Trust was given 198 acres of Kinver Edge in 1917 by the children...
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    Mount Herzl at the northern edge of Bayit VeGan. The first test run for this route was on February 24, 2010. The laying of light rail tracks was completed...
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    Tower Gateway DLR station (category Docklands Light Railway stations in the City of London)
    Tower Gateway is a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in the City of London and is located near the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. It adjoins the...
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  • which did not see the light of day were two circumferential railways, one from the Cronulla line at Mortdale to the East Hills line at Riverwood, and...
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    the east, at Burton Dassett, was a connection with the abortive Edge Hill Light Railway. A typical service, as in 1942, would be two through trains in...
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    railway terminus. Central railway station was opened on 4 August 1906. The area around Cleveland and Elizabeth streets was known as Strawberry Hills....
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    Bendigo railway station is a regional railway station on the Deniliquin and Piangil lines, which are both part of the Regional railway network. It serves...
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  • Eric Tonks (category Railway historians)
    industrial railways. He began his writing career with a book on the Edge Hill Light Railway, and he was an acknowledged expert in the history of that railway. He...
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    Rail transport (redirect from Railway)
    Salamanca built for the Middleton Railway in Leeds in 1812. This twin-cylinder locomotive was light enough to not break the edge-rails track and solved the problem...
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    captured the day before by the Light Car Patrol. The Jodhpur Lancers charged the Ottoman position, crossing the Acre railway line, but came under machine...
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    Authority (WMCA). The line originally terminated at Birmingham Snow Hill station at the edge of the city centre, but following an extension opened in December...
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    served by five lines of the London Underground as well as the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). Bank station, named after the Bank of England, opened in 1900...
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