• government-owned railway between Nelson and Glenhope, which served several existing and developing communities in between. Proposals to connect Nelson to the South...
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  • costing around $10 million a year to run. List of railway lines in New Zealand Nelson railway proposals Nelson Section Newmans Coach Lines Churchman & Hurst...
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  • Roxburgh to the Otago Central Railway in Alexandra Sockburn-Styx deviation and industrial line. Taupō Railway Proposals – connections from Rotorua, Kinleith...
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  • Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway (N&FS) is a historic railway that operated in the West Kootenay region of southern British Columbia. The railway's name...
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    Nelson Mandela Bridge is a bridge in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the fourth of five bridges which cross the railway lines and sidings located just...
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    have been several proposals to connect Nelson to the South Island rail network, but none have come to fruition. The Dun Mountain Railway was a horse-drawn...
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    mill in Nelson, which required the construction of a railway line to connect Nelson with the main South Island line; see Nelson railway proposals. Signed...
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    designed. These proposals were not recognized by the Qing dynasty government. Proposed Chinese naval ensign, designed by Horatio Nelson Lay. Beiyang Fleet...
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    in 1978) In 1960, work commenced on a line to link Nelson and Blenheim (see Nelson railway proposals), but a change of government led to a change in policy...
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    "dieselised". Amid many protests, the isolated Nelson Section was closed, although future Nelson Railway Proposals resurfaced from 1957. The RM class "88 seater"...
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    Nelson's Pillar (also known as the Nelson Pillar or simply the Pillar) was a large granite column capped by a statue of Horatio Nelson, built in the centre...
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    The British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER) was a historic railway which operated in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Originally the parent company...
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    American railway grid—at Churchill, Manitoba, at the mouth of the Churchill River. Originally port facilities were to have been built at Port Nelson; original...
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    List of members of the New Zealand Parliament who died in office Nelson railway proposals "The Next Parliament". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. LXV, no. 20104...
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    Charing Cross tube station (category Former Baker Street and Waterloo Railway stations)
    as private bills included proposals for lines through the Charing Cross area with stations serving the South Eastern Railway's (SER's) Charing Cross mainline...
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    an inland route to Blenheim with a branch from Tophouse to Nelson. There was also a proposal to use the latter route as the trans-Alpine line (as the Midland...
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    more famous Nelson's Column in London, which serves as the centrepiece of Trafalgar Square. As a point of reference, the statue of Nelson served as the...
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    The Tazara Railway, also called the Uhuru Railway or the Tanzam Railway, is a railway in East Africa linking the port of Dar es Salaam in east Tanzania...
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  • The West Sussex Railway was a 8 and a quarter miles long standard gauge light railway between Chichester and Selsey, in West Sussex. The line, which opened...
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    closure, the railway joined the South West Main Line at Winchester Junction, two miles (3 km) north of Winchester. The cheapest viable proposals to reinstate...
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    construction by BP of a new petroleum refinery at Llandarcy. Admiral Lord Nelson stayed at the Castle Hotel en route to Milford Haven when the fleet was...
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    Great Yarmouth railway station (originally Yarmouth Vauxhall) is one of two eastern termini of the Wherry Lines in the East of England, serving the seaside...
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    terminal stations in Sydney. The railway arrived in New South Wales in 1831. Proposals began in the 1840s for a railway linking Sydney and Parramatta, with...
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    Nélson de Jesus Silva (born 7 October 1973), better known simply as Dida (Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈdʒidɐ]), is a Brazilian former football goalkeeper and...
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    A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage...
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    The Nelson Section was an isolated government-owned railway line between Nelson and Glenhope in the Tasman district of New Zealand's South Island. While...
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    The Ontario Northland Railway (reporting mark ONT) is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a provincial Crown...
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    South London Railway Act 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. ci) on 2 August 1923. Parallel negotiations with the Southern Railway over the proposals curtailed the...
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    John Graham (New Zealand politician) (category Nelson City Councillors)
    opposed the Midland Railway Bill insofar as it proposed to abandon the obligations of the company to provide a railway to Nelson. As Chairman of the Banking...
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  • formed in 2000 with GB Railways having an 80% shareholding and Mike Jones & John Nelson 10% each. FirstGroup purchased GB Railways' share in August 2003...
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