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    The Ocean Pier Railway at Atlantic City was an electric narrow gauge railway, which ran over the entire length of the Ocean Pier in Atlantic City, about...
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    Beach Municipal Pier, built in 1966, was the longest concrete pier in the world and the second longest ocean pier in California. The pier was closed in...
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    Pier 21 is a former ocean liner terminal and immigration shed from 1928 to 1971 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly one million immigrants came to...
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  • Thumbnail for 1924 Ocean Park pier fire
    The 1924 Ocean Park fire destroyed several amusement piers and dance halls at Ocean Park, Los Angeles County, California, United States. The fire of Sunday...
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    067 mm), Ocean Pier Railway at Atlantic City, Seaton Tramway (converted from 2 ft) and Waiorongomai Tramway. 800 mm (2 ft 7+1⁄2 in) gauge railways are commonly...
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  • Thumbnail for 1915 Ocean Park pier fire
    The 1915 Ocean Park pier fire broke out about 1 a.m. on Monday, December 27, 1915, during the pier's mid-winter festival event in Ocean Park, Los Angeles...
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    is 1,032 feet (314.6 m) long. The other ocean pier on the Balboa Peninsula is the Balboa Pier. The original pier was known as McFadden Wharf when it was...
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    Historically, the term Chelsea Piers referred to the ocean liner berths on Manhattan's west side from 1910 to the 1930s. With ocean liners such as Lusitania...
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  • Thumbnail for Fraser's Million Dollar Pier
    Million Dollar Pier was a 20th-century amusement park in Ocean Park, California in the United States. The pier was located between Pier Avenue and Marine...
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    facilitate the export of sugar, timber and coal. The pier, served by the extension of the railway line from Pialba, was used for the transfer of cargo...
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  • Thumbnail for Southport Pier
    Southport Pier is a pleasure pier in Southport, Merseyside, England. Opened in August 1860, it is the oldest iron pier in the country. Its length of 1...
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    Balboa Pier is one of two piers in the city of Newport Beach, Orange County, California. The other ocean pier on the Balboa Peninsula is the Newport Pier. The...
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    Abbot Kinney's Venice Pier, also known as the Abbot Kinney Pier, the first Venice Pier, Venice Amusement Pier, the Windward Avenue Pier, or the Venice Wharf...
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  • Thumbnail for Pier 39
    Pier 39 is a shopping center and popular tourist attraction built on a pier in San Francisco, California. At Pier 39, there are shops, restaurants, a...
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  • Thumbnail for Ocean Island Railway
    The Ocean Island Railway (later Banaba Island Railway) was a 3-kilometre (2 mi)-long guano mining railway on Ocean Island (later renamed Banaba Island)...
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    trans-Atlantic Ocean liner passenger terminal was planned for the Ocean Terminal piers (later Pier 21) and the ICR had plans to build a larger railway station...
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  • Thumbnail for Liverpool Riverside railway station
    Liverpool Riverside was a railway station owned by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and located at Liverpool's Pier Head ocean liner terminal. The station...
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  • Thumbnail for Brighton Palace Pier
    The Brighton Palace Pier, commonly known as Brighton Pier or the Palace Pier, is a Grade II* listed pleasure pier in Brighton, England, located in the...
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    Ocean. The main attraction is the Urban Center whose landmarks are: St. Jerome's temple, built in 1871 Glorieta José Gálvez, built in 1915 State Pier...
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  • Thumbnail for Piers of Whitby
    The piers of Whitby are four structures along the River Esk estuary in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. Whilst all the piers can be accessed by the general...
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    Reclamation work also led to the demolition of Queen's Pier and Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier, structures of historic significance, to massive public opposition...
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  • Thumbnail for Greenock Princes Pier railway station
    Greenock Princes Pier was a railway station serving Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, originally as part of the Greenock and Ayrshire Railway. It was approached...
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    Monica, to build a 1 mile (1,600 m) long pier wharf into the Pacific Ocean just north of Santa Monica Canyon. The Pier wharf had a double track rail track...
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    public pier. K-pop girl group Twice features local White Rock gelato shop Ocean Rock Cafe on Marine Drive as well as the historic pier and railway in their...
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    decrepit pier on 4 December 1896. Some of the debris from the pier damaged the then under-construction Palace Pier and the Daddy Longlegs railway. The remains...
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  • Thumbnail for Rhyl Pier
    Rhyl Pier, officially known as the Victoria Pier, was a pleasure pier in the seaside town of Rhyl, Flintshire, and the first to be built in North Wales...
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  • Thumbnail for Central Vermont Railroad Pier
    Railroad Pier is a historic pier on State Pier Road in New London, Connecticut. Built in 1876, it originally served as an interchange point between ocean-going...
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    from Ocean City Sentinel at the Ocean County Library, October 7, 2004. Accessed January 19, 2012. Pritchard, Michael. "Ocean City's Music Pier: A Giant...
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  • The Pike (redirect from Rainbow Pier)
    to Pacific Ocean shoreline recreation. Stretching Pine Avenue south from Ocean Avenue into the Pacific Ocean, the Long Beach Municipal Pier had an upper...
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    labeled the "Hudson River". Piers along the Hudson shore of Manhattan were formerly used for shipping and berthing ocean-going ships. In shipping notices...
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