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unusual facts about Gordon Brand, Jnr



715 series

The sets were rebuilt from surplus former 581/583 series EMU cars at JNR factories in Tsuchisaki (Akita), Kōriyama (Fukushima), Mattō (Ishikawa), and Kokura (Kitakyūshū).

D61

JNR Class D61, a Japanese steam locomotive converted from the JNR Class D51

Daishaka Station

Daishaka Station was opened on December 1, 1894 as a station on the Japanese Government Railway, the predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR) in former Namioka village.

Dunduzu Chisiza

One, Du Chisiza Jnr, was born subsequent to his death and became one of Malawi's most prominent playwrights.

George Glover Campbell

Born to parents Isaac Campbell, a grocer, and Susannah Patterson in England, Campbell jnr arrived in Australia in 1905, he lived at Drummoyne and worked in Sydney harbour shipyards.

Gleaston Castle

William Bonville jnr died along with his father at the Battle of Wakefield in 1460 and the castle fell to his newborn daughter Cecily, who later married Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset.

Gordon Brand, Jnr

Eisenhower Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1978, 1980

Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart

Lady Sybil Marjorie Cuffe (1879–1943), married (1) 30 April 1901 William Bayard Cutting (Jnr.) (1878- 1910 of tuberculosis), son of William Bayard Cutting and then secretary to the US embassy to the Court of St. James's, by whom she had one daughter Iris Origo (1902–1988).

Henry Howe Bemrose

He and his brother William jnr became partners in his fathers printing firm in Derby in 1858.

Hoswick

They then resisted the landowner, John Bruce Jnr of Sumburgh's claim for a third share of the profits which was customary under Udal Law (the catch was traditionally split three ways, one for the 'admiral', one for those who drove the whales ashore and one for the owner of the land on which the animals were beached)

James Fingleton

James Fingleton Jnr (7 December 1876 – 13 October 1920) was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the father of Australian Test cricketer Jack Fingleton.

Joseph Highmore

His son Anthony Highmore (1719–99) was an artist, one of whose 15 children, Anthony Highmore Jnr.

Louis Tancred

Louis Jnr instead joined the Royal Air Force and, while working as a flight instructor, was killed aged 34 in a plane crash at the Isle of Axholme, Lincolnshire.

Lynda La Plante

La Plante was also executive producer on Daniel Petrie Jnr's adaptation of her show Framed (2002 TNT) which starred Sam Neill and Rob Lowe.

Murdo MacLeod

In 2012 he starred on the CBeebies show "My Story" with his 2 grandsons, Murdo Jnr.

Namioka Station

Namioka Station was opened on December 7, 1894 as a station on the Japanese Government Railway, the predecessor to the Japan National Railways (JNR) in former Namioka village.

Nukazawa Station

Nukazawa Station was opened on December 3, 1956 on the Japan National Railways (JNR) serving the town of Takanosu, Akita.

Phillip Bennett

He served again for 12 months in Korea from 1 September 1952 as Senior, then Chief Instructor with the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Jnr NCO School while posted as Tactics Instructor at the School of Infantry in Seymour, Victoria.

Private railway

Although Japan Railways Group companies are private entities, they are not considered private railways because of their unique status as the successors of the Japanese National Railways (JNR).

Roosevelt's muntjac

A single specimen of the Roosevelt's muntjac or Roosevelt's barking deer (Muntiacus rooseveltorum) was presented to the Field Museum in 1929 following a hunting expedition led by Theodore (Jnr) and Kermit Roosevelt.

Shinji Sogō

At the same time, Sogō, who had kept estimated cost figures of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen deliberately low for fear that if they were too high neither the Japanese Government nor the World Bank would have supported the proposal, began to divert money from other JNR projects to the construction of the Shinkansen.

Summer Hill, New South Wales

Ninian Melville Jnr (1843–1897), local furniture maker and member of the NSW Parliament who also became Mayor of Newtown and later Ashfield.

The Minutes

The band have toured extensively in Ireland and the UK with the likes of Albert Hammond Jnr The Strokes, The Pigeon Detectives, The Von Bondies, Supergrass and Flogging Molly forging their reputation along the way as a must see act for the future.

Tikiri Bandara Panabokke II

Panabokke Jnr received his primary education at the Walala Village School, and went to Trinity College, Kandy and Royal College Colombo, where he played cricket for his college team.

Tim Hopkins

He graduated from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and came to the attention of Australian jazz musicians Vince Jones, Paul Grabowsky, Mike Nock, James Morrison, Don Burrows, top kiwi musicians Kim Patterson, Kevin Field, Frank Gibson Jnr, Nathan Haines, Mark de Clive Lowe, Andy Browne, Roger Fox, King Kapisi and Gray Bartlett.

Yamanote Line

As part of this change, JNR decided to adopt the Yamanote pronunciation, one reason being that there is a Yamate Station on the Negishi Line in nearby Yokohama.


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