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    0789°N 6.7083°E / 51.0789; 6.7083 The Strategic Railway Embankment (German: Strategischer Bahndamm) is a railway line between the Ruhr and the south-western...
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    never implemented (this was part of the Strategischer Bahndamm—"Strategic railway embankment"—a plan to build a western bypass of the rail nodes at Cologne...
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    Subway Mosel Railway (German: Moselbahn) Ahrtal Railway (German: Ahrtalbahn) Old Railway at Willebadessen Strategic Railway Embankment (German: Strategischer...
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    Hülchrath. The community Hülchrath borders in the east on the strategic railway embankment and on the locality Neukirchen (Newchurch) (Grevenbroich). 51°07′26″N...
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    Ludwigsburg-Hoheneck. The strategic railway embankment begins at Rommerskirchen station, and Oekoven maintains a public railway facility. Rommerskirchen...
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    unfinished Neuss–Rheinbach–Dernau railway (the Strategische Bahndamm—Strategic Railway Embankment): Bonn Hbf = Bonn-Duisdorf = Impekoven = Witterschlick = Kottenforst...
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    the Strategic Railway Embankment from Neuss branched off the Erft Railway. Horrem station is located at line-kilometre 15.9 of the Erft Railway and connects...
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  • completed around 2000. Strategic Railway Embankment - The German government ordered the construction of a dedicated military railway in 1904, running from...
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    In the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), the strategic importance and limitations of the Trans-Siberian Railway contributed to Russia's defeat in the war...
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    base of the embankment being eroded by the river and the saturated nature of the fill material originally used to construct the embankment) led to the...
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    deadlines, compounded by a severe lack of power machinery. As a result, railway embankments slowly settled into the marsh or were eroded by water pooling behind...
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    containing 136 terraced dwellings to house the railway workers were built on the east side of the embankment, together with a street of shops. This gave...
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  • Silberbergtunnel [de], a tunnel (part of the never-finished Strategic Railway Embankment) in a nearby mountain that was used as shelter from Allied bomb...
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    the flooding of the Neretva, the railway was built on an embankment. In this section, the width of the upper embankment was 3 metres (9.8 ft). The rails...
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    the track. The chalets below the embankment were also washed away. At Hampton Loade, the access road to the railway station – and indeed the only road...
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    provided and the line was connected to Lewisham in 1929. The remains of the embankment can be seen on the eastern side of the line. There was a signal box at...
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    Inverness Airport railway station was opened on 2 February 2023. It is close to the site of the former Dalcross railway station, and is served by ScotRail...
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    months from 24 July 1942 to 14 February 1943. The town was of strategic importance as a railway junction and a river port accessing the Caucasus, a region...
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    and disturbed the top structure of the railway, and 18 caused train wrecks and the destruction of the embankment. According to the data of the Eastern...
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    (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in) Russian gauge. For strategic reasons, past Afghan governments averted the construction of railways which could aid foreign interference...
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    Station tram stop has direct interchange with the railway station. It was built on top of a walled embankment that formerly carried Granville Street past the...
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    Moss Vale railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the Main Southern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the town of Moss Vale...
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    Ulster Railway to carry out the work. While it had been hoped to open the line in November 1847, this was put back by the need to raise the embankment along...
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    a flood scoured the embankment at Odenbach and interrupted traffic. The remaining line to Staudernheim on the Nahe Valley Railway was finally taken into...
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    The Metropolitan Railway (also known as the Met) was a passenger and goods railway that served London from 1863 to 1933, its main line heading north-west...
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    The Panama Canal Railway (PCR, Spanish: Ferrocarril de Panamá) is a railway line linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America. The...
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    railway linking the Scottish Borders to the national network at Edinburgh and Carlisle and urges the Scottish Executive to consult with the Strategic...
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    the city of Villa Ocampo (as "Colonia Ocampo") in 1878. The railway line was strategically designed to join some of the city's industries such as the "Carlota"...
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    nationalised railway system in Great Britain in the 1960s. They are named for Dr. Richard Beeching, then-chair of the British Railways Board and the...
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    The Weardale Railway is an independently owned British single-track branch line heritage railway between Bishop Auckland, Witton-le-Wear, Wolsingham,...
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