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Lancaster railway/railroad station

Lancaster railway station, formerly Lancaster Castle railway station, a station in Lancaster, England


Black and White Taxicab and Transfer Company v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab and Transfer Company

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad signed an exclusive contract with the Black and White Taxicab company to pick up customers at the railroad station in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Hanover Junction Railroad Station

Hanover Junction Railroad Station is a historic railroad station located at Hanover Junction in North Codorus Township, York County, Pennsylvania.

National Industrial Recovery Act

Among the projects it funded between 1935 and 1939 are: the USS Yorktown; USS Enterprise; the 30th Street railroad station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Triborough Bridge; the port of Brownsville; Grand Coulee Dam; Boulder Dam; Fort Peck Dam; Bonneville Dam; and the Overseas Highway connecting Key West, Florida, with the mainland.

Paul Henning

Ruth Henning often told her husband about how she and her female cousins often visited her grandparents at the tiny hotel they owned near the Rock Island Railroad station located in Eldon, Missouri.


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30th Street

30th Street Station, the main railroad station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Alder, Oregon

Alder railroad station on Southern Pacific's Toledo Line (now owned by the Portland and Western Railroad) was established in 1911, but in 1922 the Post Office Department would not name the community's new post office "Alder" because of potential confusion with many other offices with the same name.

AVD

Avadi, Tamil Nadu, India (railroad station abbreviation)

Chickahominy River

The attack was made in two places, at the railroad station of Fair Oaks and (about a mile away) at the crossroads of Seven Pines.

Chishang

Chishang Station (池上車站), railroad station in Chishang Township, on the Hualien–Taitung Line

Davisville, Rhode Island

Both Amtrak and MBTA's Providence/Stoughton Line pass through Davisville, though there is no railroad station here.

Divača

A tree of heaven plantation stands near the railroad station; it was used to cultivate eri silkworms in the 19th century.

Dorothy, Minnesota

Dorothy initially was established as a railroad station in 1916-17 after the Northern Pacific Railway extended its line from Tilden Junction to Winnipeg and built a spur through Red Lake Falls.

Downtown Norfolk, Virginia

However, Norfolk's urban renewal also included the demolition of many prominent city buildings, including the former City Market, Norfolk Terminal Station (the Union railroad station), The Monticello Hotel, and large swaths of urban fabric that, were they still in existence today, might be the source of additional historic urban character, including the East Main Street district (where the current civic complex is located).

E. H. Crump

Crump was sworn in at a few minutes past midnight on January 1, 1940, in a snow storm on the platform of the railroad station, just before leaving for New Orleans to see the Sugar Bowl.

Farthing

Farthing, Wyoming (also known as Iron Mountain), a railroad station and post office in Wyoming

Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

A significant number of Japanese were assigned to the construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline (over 200,000 persons), in eight camps, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur (two camps, for two railroad branches), Sovetskaya Gavan, Raychikha railroad station (Khabarovsk Krai), Izvestkovaya r/r station (Khabarovsk Krai), Krasnaya Zarya (Chita Oblast), Taishet, and Novo-Grishino (Irkutsk Oblast).

Joseph C. Hare

A railroad station near Manning, west of Buxton, and another stop in Aloha between Beaverton and Hillsboro, were both named for Hare.

Kaaterskill Railroad Station

The Kaaterskill Railroad Station, branch MP 19.1, was one of the busiest railroad stations on the branch lines of the Ulster and Delaware Railroad (U&D).

Kiev Passenger Railway Station

The old Kiev railroad station was constructed during 1868-1870, as a part of Kiev-Balta and Kiev-Kursk railroad constructions, which were also completed in 1870.

Laws, California

A station agent's home is located south of the railroad station.

Luninets

In 1888, while under Russian sovereignty, a railway junction was built in Luninets, linking it by rail to Warsaw, Rivne, Vilna and Homel, and a proper railroad station was added in 1905.

Mitropa

In the seventh episode of the movie Seventeen Moments of Spring, the logos of the company are visible, when the General, Stirlitz's travel companion walks through the railroad station.

Molo, Kenya

St. Andrews School, Turi, is located in Turi, a railroad station centre about 10 kilometres towards the east of Molo.

Norristown Transportation Center

It opened in 1989 to replace the older Norristown High Speed Line (Route 100) terminus one block away at Main and Swede Streets, and integrated the former Reading Company DeKalb Street Norristown railroad station (built 1933) into its structure.

Pryor Creek, Oklahoma

Originally named Coo-Y-Yah, Cherokee for Huckleberry, it was renamed Pryor Creek, the name of the local railroad station (named for the creek).

Rietheim, Aargau

Since 1876 it was given a railroad station and connected to the Koblenz-Winterthur line.

Second Battle of Rellano

The Second Battle of Rellano of 22 May 1912 was an engagement of the Mexican Revolution between rebel forces under Pascual Orozco and government troops under General Victoriano Huerta, at the railroad station of Rellano, Chihuahua.

Tada Kasuke

The nearest railroad station to Jōkyō Gimin-sha is Nakagaya Station on Ōito Line.

Taipei Railway Station

Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki was chosen to design two skyscrapers that will surround the railroad station.

Wabuska Railroad Station

The Wabuska Railroad Station, on S. Carson St. in Carson City, Nevada, was built in 1906.

William Pedley

He gave his name to the settlement of Pedley, California in 1903 or 1904 when the Union Pacific Railroad Company installed a switch and a railroad station at the location.