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... laid down between Chester and Holyhead , to enable the Express Mail to run the distance of 84 miles in two hours and five minutes without stopping ; and similar troughs have since been laid down at Bushey near London , at Castlethorpe ...
... laid down between Chester and Holyhead , to enable the Express Mail to run the distance of 84 miles in two hours and five minutes without stopping ; and similar troughs have since been laid down at Bushey near London , at Castlethorpe ...
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... laid side by side , over which more than twenty millions of passengers are carried yearly , or an average of about 60,000 a day all the year round . Since the partial opening of the Greenwich Railway in 1836 , a large extent of railways ...
... laid side by side , over which more than twenty millions of passengers are carried yearly , or an average of about 60,000 a day all the year round . Since the partial opening of the Greenwich Railway in 1836 , a large extent of railways ...
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... lay a wild country , abounding in moors , mountains , and morasses , but occupied to a certain extent by fierce and barbarous tribes . To defend the young colony against their ravages , a strong wall was built by the Romans , extending ...
... lay a wild country , abounding in moors , mountains , and morasses , but occupied to a certain extent by fierce and barbarous tribes . To defend the young colony against their ravages , a strong wall was built by the Romans , extending ...
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... laid parallel upon wooden sleepers , or imbedded in the ordinary track , by which friction was still further diminished . It is said that these wooden rails were first em- ployed by one Beaumont , about 1630 ; and on a road thus laid ...
... laid parallel upon wooden sleepers , or imbedded in the ordinary track , by which friction was still further diminished . It is said that these wooden rails were first em- ployed by one Beaumont , about 1630 ; and on a road thus laid ...
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... laid down in the coal districts of Wales , Cumberland , and Scotland . At the time of the Scotch rebellion in 1745 , a tram- road existed between the Tranent coal - pits and the small harbour of Cockenzie in East Lothian ; and a portion ...
... laid down in the coal districts of Wales , Cumberland , and Scotland . At the time of the Scotch rebellion in 1745 , a tram- road existed between the Tranent coal - pits and the small harbour of Cockenzie in East Lothian ; and a portion ...
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