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This is a list of notable successful swims across the English Channel, [1] a straight-line distance of at least 18.2 nautical miles (20.9 mi; 33.7 km). [ 2 ] Aerial view of the Strait of Dover Ted Heaton (in water) being fed by assistants during his 1910 swim Monument in Dover to Channel swimmers
The 14609 / 14610 Hemkunt Express is an Express train belonging to Indian Railways – Northern Railways zone that runs between Rishikesh and Sri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra in India. It operates as train number 14609 from Rishikesh to Shri Mata Vaisno Devi Katra and as train number 14610 in the reverse direction.
Up to 1927, fewer than ten swimmers (including the first woman, Gertrude Ederle in 1926) had managed to successfully swim the English Channel, and many dubious claims had been made. The Channel Swimming Association (CSA) was founded to authenticate and ratify swimmers' claims to have swum the Channel and to verify crossing times.
Krishnagiri MP Dr. P. V. Periasamy's demand promoted national integration from Kanyakumari to Kashmir through direct train service on 19-03-1979 in parliament. [2] The proposals to extend 131/132 Jayanti Janata Express to and from Trivandrum and 125/126 Karnataka Kerala Express to and from Kanyakumari and Jammu Tawi have been earlier examined at length and not found feasible.
On 9 December 2013, a trial train reaches Katra from the Udhampur side, marking an engineering achievement on the southern side. 2014: On 11 June, a (second?) trial train from Delhi arrives in anticipation of the opening of the Udhampur–Katra line, which will connect Katra to the rest of the country. [27]
The only general set of rules swimmers followed at the time were the English Channel rules, set by a couple of local English Channel swimming groups, which called for no touching of the swimmer at ...
How many times did Diane Nyad attempt the swim before she succeeded? Nyad became a world-renowned swimmer in the 1970s, and made headlines in 1975 at age 25 for setting a world record by swimming ...
The 22461 / 22462 Shri Shakti AC Superfast Express is a AC Superfast train run by Indian Railways between New Delhi and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra railway stations in India. [ 2 ] Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had on 4 July 2014 flagged off this train from Katra Vaishno Devi while commissioning the 25-km-long Udhampur-Katra line, built ...