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unusual facts about Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway


Neidpath Viaduct

The Symington, Biggar and Broughton Railway's extension to Peebles was authorised on 3 July 1860 but by the time construction was complete the company had been absorbed by the much larger Caledonian Railway.


Caledonian Main Line

The original stations between Carlisle and Carstairs were: Rockcliffe, Floriston, Kirkpatrick, Gretna, Kirtlebridge, Ecclefechan, Lockerbie, Nethercleugh, Dinwoodie, Wamphray, Beattock, Elvanfoot, Crawford, Abington, Lamington, Symington and Thankerton.

Charlotte Dundas

The boat was built by Alexander Hart at Grangemouth to Symington's design with a vertical cylinder engine and crosshead transmitting power to a crank driving the paddlewheels.

John Kelso Hunter

John was born at Dankeith, South Ayrshire, and he was a relation to the McCallums of Troon.

Kenneth Symington

Kenneth A. Symington of Cañal was a British-Cuban civic leader, the last National Executive Commissioner of the Asociación de Scouts de Cuba.

Neville Symington

Jeanette Winterson found the plainness and straightforwardness of Symington's writing style offered something of a framework for her mid-life journey through madness.

Palenque Norte

Operated as a partnership between author Jonathan Ott, botanist Rob Montgomery, businessman Ken Symington, and author Terence McKenna, the series brought together some of the most noted experts in entheogenic research, including Dr. Alexander and Ann Shulgin, Bret Blosser, Dr. Deborah Mash, Manuel and Donna Torres, Giorgio Samorini, Christian Rätsch, Dr. Claudia Müller-Ebeling, Dale Pendell, and others.

Robert Symington Baker

Colonel Robert Symington Baker (1826–1894) was a businessman and landowner originally from Rhode Island.

Surplus Property Board

Gillette, Symington, President Truman, and the more liberal 1945 U.S. Congress concurred that the Act’s three-member Board was inferior to the single-administrator-plan originally proposed.

Symington

Symington, South Lanarkshire, village in Scotland, one of three named after Simon de Lockart

Symington Amendment

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 was amended by the Symington Amendment (Section 669 of the FAA) in 1976.

Symington, South Ayrshire

On the boundary of Dundonald and Symington parishes lies an area known as the 'Slough of Despond'.

The original Slough of Despond is a deep bog in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress into which the character Christian sinks under the weight of his sins and his sense of guilt for them.

Wilfred Bion

Symington, Neville and Joan The Clinical Thinking of Wilfred Bion.


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