Railway Lands is an area in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Originally a large railway switching yard near the Toronto waterfront, including the CNR...
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King's Cross Central (section The railway lands)
approximately 67 acres (27 ha) of former railway lands to the north of King's Cross and St Pancras mainline railway stations. The site is largely determined...
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CN Tower (category Railway Lands)
the former Railway Lands. Its name "CN" referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. Following the railway's decision to...
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Rogers Centre (category Railway Lands)
near the northern shore of Lake Ontario. Opened in 1989 on the former Railway Lands, it is home to the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB)...
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Metro Toronto Convention Centre (category Railway Lands)
located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada along Front Street West in the former Railway Lands in downtown Toronto. The property is today owned by Oxford Properties...
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King's Cross, London (section Railway stations)
Cross station helped stimulate the redevelopment of the long derelict railway lands to the north of the termini. The area, historically the south-eastern...
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unsafe for further use. The Toronto Port Lands Company owned the last remaining railway line in the Port Lands, which made a U-shape loop around the area...
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Roundhouse Park (redirect from Toronto Railway Museum)
in the former Railway Lands. It features the John Street Roundhouse, a preserved locomotive roundhouse that houses the Toronto Railway Museum, Steam Whistle...
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Lands railway station served the hamlet of Low Lands, County Durham, England, from 1858 to 1872 on the Haggerleases branch of the Stockton and Darlington...
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SkyWalk (category Railway Lands)
the SkyWalk was the first major construction project in the former railway lands after the CN Tower. On 17 July 2014, the Toronto Preservation Board...
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completed in 1976 on the railway lands south of downtown. Around the downtown core, which had been dominated by railway lands since the 1850s, new land...
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Ripley's Aquarium of Canada (category Railway Lands)
partnership with three levels of government. The federal government's Canada Lands Company contributed CA$10 million to the project to develop the "John Street...
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"Bunbury Railway Lands Act 1985". www.legislation.wa.gov.au. Government of Western Australia. 6 May 1985. Retrieved 13 August 2024. "Government Railways Amendment...
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The Harbourfront area to the south was formerly an industrial and railway lands area. Since the 1970s, it has seen extensive redevelopment, including...
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Railbanking (category Railway Lands)
The state of Connecticut has taken a proactive approach to preserving railway rights-of-way. Since the 1970s, Connecticut Department of Transportation...
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north-east is King's Cross Central, formerly known as the Railway Lands, a complex of intersecting railway lines crossed by several roads and the Regent's Canal...
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The Parkdale railway station was opened at Queen and Dufferin streets in 1856. In the 1870s, the Grand Trunk Railway built a railway station at Jameson...
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CityPlace, Toronto (category Railway Lands)
neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, within the former Railway Lands. When completed, this area will be the largest residential development...
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Stratford, London (section Railway)
a multibillion-pound scheme to regenerate the 73-hectare brownfield railway lands to the north of the existing town centre. The vast shopping centre reported...
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Union Station (Toronto) (category Railway Lands)
station. Like Union Station, these structures were built on former Railway Lands. All of them can be accessed directly from Union Station via the Skywalk...
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are included. Given the location of the railway lands in land scarce Singapore, there was concern that the lands would be developed. Organisations such...
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Union Station Rail Corridor (redirect from Toronto Terminals Railway)
The Union Station Rail Corridor (USRC) is a corridor of railway tracks that exist through and adjacent to Union Station in downtown Toronto. It is 6.4...
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on Lake Ontario. This was part of the First Military Tract, or "Militia Lands", which extended from today's Royal York Road to Kipling Avenue, south from...
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Toronto waterfront (section Port Lands)
incineration, and heavy manufacturing especially in Toronto harbour). The railway lands just to the north of the waterfront now became too valuable to keep...
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Canadian Pacific Railway on completion. In July 1904 the first passenger train steamed into town. The service lasted until 1957, the railway lands becoming the...
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Maple Leaf Square (category Railway Lands)
Canada. It is located to the west of the Scotiabank Arena on the former Railway Lands. The $500 million development was jointly developed by Cadillac Fairview...
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Rail transport in Thailand (redirect from Railways in Thailand)
covering 47 provinces across the country. SRT is committed to developing railway lands through its subsidiary, SRT Asset (SRTA), which focuses on transit-oriented...
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Park, which had been part of an early proposal that was to have seen the lands south of the rail corridor transformed into an extensive lakeside park that...
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H. F. Stephens (redirect from Colonel Stephens Railways)
Halstead Railway Lands End, St Just and Great Western Junction Railway Long Melford and Hadleigh Railway Maidstone and Faversham Junction Railway Maidstone...
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The railway was built in 1960 from the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway to Wabush, initially called the Northern Lands Company Railway (reporting...
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