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The first settlers established farms in the Kersbrook area in the early 1831s due to its relatively gentle slopes. John Bowden, manager of the South Australian Company's dairy farm at Hackney, bought the 32-hectare (79-acre) section 6146, Hundred of Para Wirra, and named it Kersbrook after the Cornish farm where he was born. [3]
In 1903, the Alaska Central Railroad began a rail project north from Seward. The company encountered the most significant geographic obstacles to construction between 47 and 53 miles (85 km) north of Seward, a section known as the "Loop District", where the line would need to cross a high-point in the Kenai Mountains and avoid the paths of two glaciers.
Double-end shuttle (no loop or wye) between the 7 Charles Street and 21 Fineview services. 10 West View and Bellevue by 1915 [1] Sep 4, 1965 [6] Formed a loop with 15 Bellevue. 10 West View was counterclockwise as far as West View. 11 East Street and Madison Avenue by 1915 [1] Sep 4, 1965 [6] Short turn of the 10 12 Evergreen Road via East ...
Today, a hike on the Redwood Loop Trail is full of inspiring new growth. Four years ago, fire ravaged 97% of Big Basin Redwoods State Park in the Santa Cruz Mountains. ... At the site of the old ...
The Outer Circle Railway was opened in stages in 1890 and 1891, as a steam-era suburban railway line, in Melbourne, Australia.It traversed much of the modern City of Boroondara, including the suburbs of (from north to south) Kew East, Camberwell, Burwood, Ashburton, and Malvern East.
Platform 1 was a 151-metre-long side platform, and platforms 2 and 3 were a 149-metre-long island platform. The island platform was demolished in the 1990s, but the side platform remains in place, although no longer in use. A crossing loop was provided but was removed when the line was converted to standard gauge in 1995.
The nonprofit Save the Redwoods League purchased the land in 2013 from an old timber mill, with the original goal of giving it to the National Park Service.
The Dry Creek–Port Adelaide railway line is an eight-kilometre east–west freight railway line running through Adelaide's north-western suburbs. The line is managed by the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and is an important link between Port Adelaide, Pelican Point and the main interstate rail routes which link Adelaide with Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Sydney.