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6 unusual facts about City Line


British Rail Class 323

In the early 1990s the Regional Railways sector of British Rail placed an order for new EMUs to both replace older units and to work services on the newly electrified Birmingham Cross-City Line.

It was intended for the units to be introduced on the newly electrified Cross-City Line from Redditch to Lichfield (via Birmingham New Street).

Gateway Plus

They used the Cross-City Line as an example, showing that stations can currently take a maximum of six carriages and that the lengthening proposals would increase train length to 12 carriages.

Selly Oak railway station

Selly Oak railway station is a railway station in Selly Oak in Birmingham, England on the Cross-City Line between Redditch, Birmingham and Lichfield.

Warsaw Cross-City Line

The regional trains use Warszawa Stadion, Warszawa Powiśle, Warszawa Śródmieście PKP and Warszawa Ochota stations (listed east-to-west), the long distance trains use Warszawa Centralna.

The line provided a direct short link between Warszawa Wschodnia and Warszawa Zachodnia stations.


Bergen Street Line

The Bergen Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States, running westbound mostly along Bergen Street, as well as eastbound on Dean Street (as part of a one-way pair), between Downtown Brooklyn and Ocean Hill (earlier Red Hook to City Line).

Camp Hill Line

The Camp Hill line is a railway line in the West Midlands which lies between Kings Norton on the Cross-City Line and Birmingham New Street via Proof House junction.

Duddeston railway station

Duddeston railway station is situated in the Duddeston area of Birmingham, England on the Redditch-Birmingham New Street-Lichfield Cross-City Line and the Walsall line.

Greenville, Jersey City

In its broadest definition Greenville encompasses the area south of the West Side Branch of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and north of the city line with Bayonne, between the Upper New York Bay and the Newark Bay, and corresponds to the postal area zip code 07305.

Liverpool to Wigan Line

For local passenger transport, the route is branded as a significant section of one of Merseytravel's City Line routes.


see also

Agnes of God

A few years before the play was written, a similar incident occurred in a convent in Brighton, New York, just outside the city line of Rochester.

Cazenovia Creek

In 1897, Frederick Law Olmsted, a landscape architect, drew up plans for a park near the south city line of Buffalo, New York.

Chennai Central–Bangalore City line

The Chennai Central–Bangalore City line (popularly known as Chennai-Bangalore line) connects the main railway stations in two of the larger cities in India - Chennai Central in Tamilnadu and Bangalore City in Karnataka.

Edgware, Highgate and London Railway

The tracks were removed in 1971 following which the Northern City Line empty stock movements ran from Neasden via King's Cross (York Road) and the Widened Lines.

Granville Station

Granville Street railway station, a former station in Birmingham on what was the West Suburban Railway, now the Cross City Line.

Kentucky Route 536

Near Union, KY 536 intersects with Old Union Road, the former routing of U.S. Route 42 before US 42 was realigned from the Union city line to just south of Ryle High School.

Kentucky Route 693

A section of KY 693 from the Russell/Flatwoods city line to the intersection of KY 207 (Argillite Road) in Flatwoods is also unofficially known as Billy Ray Cyrus Boulevard.

Kings Norton railway station

London Midland operate the Cross-City line on behalf of Centro.

Lansdowne, Maryland

The road starts at Halethorpe Farms Road in the Halethorpe area and proceeds east across I-695, then crosses the Baltimore (city) line after passing Lansdowne Road/Daisy Avenue to Patapsco Avenue, ending at US-1/Washington Boulevard.

Light rail in New Jersey

Originally constructed as a streetcar line using PCC streetcars, the Newark City Subway ran from Newark Penn to a loop at the Newark city line located at what was then called Franklin Avenue.

Mar Vista, Los Angeles

Mar Vista's street and other boundaries are: the San Diego Freeway to the Culver City boundary at Venice Boulevard on the northeast, the Culver City line on the southeast, Walgrove Avenue on the southwest and the Santa Monica city boundary on the northwest.

Massachusetts Route 152

Just north of the city line, Route 152 crosses over the Providence and Worcester Railroad, which carries the Amtrak Northeast Corridor, and passes to the east of the Hebronville Mill Historic District.

Oresundtrain

Most of the trains on the Oresundtrain network are operated by DSB Øresund, a joint operation between DSB and First Group, and Veolia but a few are operated by DSB on the inter-city line to Ystad, where they connect to the high-speed ferry to Bornholm.

Shepherd's Bush station

Shepherd's Bush tube station, now known as Shepherd's Bush Market tube station, on the Hammersmith & City line of the London Underground

SS Hong Moh

The ship was built by Charles Connell & Company of Scotstoun, and was launched on 8 September 1881 as the SS City of Calcutta for George Smith & Sons' City Line.

Willow Grove Park

In its most recent configuration, Route 6 began at the Olney Terminal of the Broad Street Subway, principally traversing Ogontz Avenue in the city, crossing the city line at Cheltenham Avenue, and then proceeding on private right-of-way near Limekiln Pike, street running on Keswick Avenue in Glenside, and then mostly side-of-the-road private right-of-way until reaching the park.

Wynnefield Heights, Philadelphia

Wynnefield Heights is the home of the Presidential City Apartments, WPVI-TV Channel 6, the City Line shopping center, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Hilton Hotel, TGI Friday's, Target (opened on July 29, 2007 on the former Adam's Mark Hotel site), the Belmont Water Treatment Plant and Reservoir, and the Pennsylvania State Police Barracks (Troop K).