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    The Bowes Railway, built by George Stephenson in 1826, is the world's only operational preserved standard gauge cable railway system. It was built to...
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    situated close to Barnard Castle. It is built around the medieval Bowes Castle. Bowes lies within the historic county boundaries of the North Riding of...
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    Bowes railway station was situated on the South Durham & Lancashire Union Railway between Barnard Castle and Kirkby Stephen East. The line was opened...
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    Bowes Park railway station is in the London Borough of Haringey in north London, and is on the boundary of Travelcard Zone 3 and Travelcard Zone 4. It...
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  • The Whitechapel and Bow Railway was an underground railway in east London, United Kingdom, now entirely integrated into the London Underground system....
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    Bow Road is a closed railway station in Bow, East London, that was opened in 1876 on the Bow Curve branch line by the Great Eastern Railway (GER). The...
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  • East London Bow Road tube station, East London Bow Street railway station, Wales Bowes Park railway station, North London Bromley-by-Bow tube station...
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  • Bow railway works was at Bow, an area of London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It was built in 1853 by the North London Railway. Bow...
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    the Bowes Bridge site from 1840–81, a locomotive shed from 1881-1962. The headshunt by Marley Hill signal box is the point where the west-east Bowes Railway...
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    Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (21 July 1824 – 16 February 1904), styled The Honourable Claude Bowes-Lyon from 1847 to 1865...
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    Bow was a railway station in Bow, east London, that was opened in 1850 by the East & West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway, which was later...
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  • Alnwick, Northumberland Bowes Railway, Tyne and Wear Derwent Valley Light Railway, Murton, North Yorkshire East Lancashire Railway, Bury, Greater Manchester...
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    Bow railway station was a railway station serving the village of Bow and the hamlet of Nymet Tracy in Devon. Bow lies about 8 miles west of Crediton. The...
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    station interchange (OSI) with Bow Church station on the Docklands Light Railway which is about 300 m (980 ft) away via Bow Road. The two stations are classed...
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  • Bowes is a village in County Durham, England. Bowes may also refer to: Bowes (surname), a surname Australia Bowes, Western Australia United States Bowes...
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    Revolution, several railways used cable haulage in preference to locomotives, especially over steep inclines. The Bowes Railway on the outskirts of Gateshead...
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    Sunniside to Stanley; Bowes Terrace, Gibraltar Row, and Marley Hill Terrace. These were known collectively as Andrews Houses. Bowes terrace is visible on...
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    from Bow railway station on the North London Railway line to Bromley Junction, just to the west of the station. A shuttle service operated between Bow and...
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    constructed around the same time by John Bowes & Partners (at the time the owners of the colliery and the Bowes Railway) to house colliery officials. These...
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    Junction Railway over the Solway Viaduct to Brayton. The line opened for freight from 13 September 1869. Bowness was opened by the Solway Junction Railway, then...
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    Stephenson's Rocket (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1829)
    built by Locomotion Enterprises in the Springwell workshops at the Bowes Railway for the 150th anniversary celebrations. It first worked in public on...
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    writer. Bill Bowes was born in Elland on 25 July 1908. His father, John Bowes, was a railwayman whose job with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway caused the...
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    the Whitechapel & Bow Railway was opened, linking the District Railway at Whitechapel to the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway (LT&SR) at an above-ground...
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    Colliery Railway, later to be known as the Bowes Railway, opened. This section was the first six miles of what would become a 15-mile railway, using a...
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    Bow Brickhill railway station is a railway station that serves the civil parishes of Bow Brickhill and Walton in the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire...
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    site on 10 June 1954 and was transferred in 1969 now resides at the Bowes Railway in Tyne and Wear. Today the mine is in a poor state of repair however...
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    Stepney Green tube station (category Former Whitechapel and Bow Railway stations)
    Whitechapel and Bow Railway, a joint venture between the District Railway and the London, Tilbury and Southend Railway. The new railway connected the District...
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    Mile End tube station (category Former Whitechapel and Bow Railway stations)
    the Whitechapel & Bow Railway (W&BR). Electrified services started in 1905. The first services were provided by the District Railway (now the District...
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    once situated in Bow Road: Bow railway station and Bow Road railway station. Bow Road is home to a number of pubs, including the Bow Bells, which is known...
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    the Bowes Railway in Tyne & Wear, North-East England No' 2368 NCB "No' 1" - Preserved and awaiting restoration at the Scottish Industrial Railway Centre...
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