• The Historical Railways Estate (HRE) is a forms of over 3,100 structures—predominantly bridges, viaducts, tunnels and other works—associated with former...
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  • events. In 2013, Highways England took over responsibility for the Historical Railways Estate (HRE) from BRB (Residuary) Limited. In May and June 2021, the...
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    Pensford Viaduct (category Railway viaducts in Somerset)
    assets being transferred to the Highways Agency as part of the Historical Railways Estate. In 2014 a new microbrewery in Pensford known as the Chew Valley...
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  • Highways Agency Historical Railways Estate The Highways Agency Historical Railways Estate is now responsible for the Historical Railways Estate (formerly known...
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    Castlefield Viaduct (category Railway bridges in Greater Manchester)
    engineering company behind Blackpool Tower. The viaduct is part of the Historical Railways Estate. Plans by the National Trust to turn it into a 'sky park' were...
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    Pickle Bridge line (category Closed railway lines in Yorkshire and the Humber)
    2010. Yellowlees, John. ""The Historical Railways Estate in Britain" by Hélène Rossiter, Head of Historical Railways Estate, National Highways: 11 March...
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    with a 20 tonne weight limit for traffic. It is part of the Historical Railways Estate managed by National Highways on behalf of the Department for Transport...
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    still maintained by the former British Railways Properties Board. Highways England's Historical Railways Estate group succeeded that organisation and further...
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    Wheatley Viaduct (category Railway viaducts in West Yorkshire)
    trackbed is not accessible to the public. In November 2023, the Historical Railways Estate announced that they would be carrying out over £1 million worth...
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    Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina. Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), the main residence...
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    Queensbury Tunnel (category Railway tunnels in England)
    Transport and maintained on its behalf by National Highways's Historical Railways Estate (HRE) team. Controversy has surrounded the future of the tunnel...
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    British narrow-gauge railways ranging from large, historically significant common carriers to small, short-lived industrial railways. Many notable events...
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  • as "Mines Royal", are managed by the Crown Estate and leased to mining operators. Historically, Crown Estate properties were administered by the reigning...
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    The Barbican Estate, or Barbican, is a residential complex of around 2,000 flats, maisonettes, and houses in central London, England, within the City of...
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    Bennerley Viaduct (category Railway viaducts in Derbyshire)
    Rail in the 1990s, the viaduct became part of the Historical Railways Estate (or Burdensome Estate), managed by BRB (Residuary) Limited. By that time...
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    gauge railways were pioneered by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood who was interested in what he termed a minimum gauge railway for use as estate railways or to...
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    maintenance, the current owners of the tunnel (National Highways Historical Railways Estate) have suggested that the tunnel be sealed off with concrete which...
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  • Poraiyar Nadar's estate (Tamil: பொறையார் நாடார் எஸ்டேட்), popularly known as Nadar estate was one of the largest zamindari estate in the erstwhile Tanjore...
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    took over Serbian Railways' former jurisdictions: Srbijavoz (passenger transport), Srbija Kargo (cargo transport) and Serbian Railways Infrastructure (infrastructure...
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    2023. Retrieved 13 February 2023. "Railway Archaeology Quiz #4 – see also illustration in Harrigan, Victorian Railways to '62". Archived from the original...
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  • A real-estate bubble or property bubble (or housing bubble for residential markets) is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in local or global...
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    emancipation of serfs, starting coal mining in their estates near Tula and helping to build railways all over Russia. Aleksey Alekseyevich's second son...
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  • The Becontree Estate Railway was a temporary railway system built in the area between Chadwell Heath and the River Thames to facilitate the construction...
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    Peckham (redirect from North Peckham Estate)
    University Press, 1961) Joseph Priestley, Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain (Wakefield: Richard Nichols...
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    house's historical importance was recognized and was taken over by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, along with part of the Washington property estate. The...
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    Cadishead Viaduct (category Railway bridges in Greater Manchester)
    of the Manchester Ship Canal.[where?][when?] The Reshaping of British Railways by Dr Richard Beeching, 1963. BRB (Residuary) Visual Examination Report...
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    Becontree (redirect from Becontree Estate)
    Redbridge to Barking and Dagenham in 1994. The estate is named after the ancient Becontree Hundred, which historically covered the area. It is recorded in the...
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    England. Formed after the 2009 merger of the Cambrian Railways Society and the Cambrian Railways Trust, it aims to reinstate the infrastructure required...
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    Glazebrook East Junction–Skelton Junction line (category Railway lines opened in 1873)
    to Partington remained (and remains to this day) part of the Historical Railways Estate. Today, Glazebrook East Junction is still intact and remains part...
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    000 acre sporting estate at the east end of Loch Torridon, in Ross-shire, Scotland. In 1889, he became a promoter of the Aultbea Railway. At his death on...
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