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3 unusual facts about heading


Double head

Double-heading, the practice of using two locomotives to pull a train.

Double-headed

Double-heading, the use of at least two steam locomotives at the front of a train

Doubleheader

Double-heading - using two railway locomotives to pull a long or heavy train.


1986–87 Coventry City F.C. season

After only two minutes, Clive Allen scored his 49th goal of the season, heading past keeper Steve Ogrizovic at the near-post from a perfect Chris Waddle cross.

2010–11 Stevenage F.C. season

Peter Vincenti opened the scoring for the hosts after just six minutes; heading in Charlie Griffin's looping cross.

Abraham G. Mills

Abraham Gilbert Mills (March 12, 1844 – August 26, 1929) was the fourth president of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (1883-1884), and is best known for heading the "Mills Commission" which controversially credited Civil War General Abner Doubleday with the invention of baseball.

Alabama State Route 58

SR-58 begins at an intersection with US-82/SR-6/SR-25/SR-219 in Centreville, heading east on two-lane undivided Walnut Street.

Antoni Radziwiłł

Struggling between his Polish subjects and the Prussian authorities, Radziwiłł found himself with little power, as effective power was executed by Oberpräsident Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti and the district governors heading the Regierungsbezirke of Posen and Bromberg.

Auckland Marathon

The course begins in the seaside suburb of Devonport on the North Shore and travels through Takapuna and Northcote before crossing the Harbour Bridge and heading toward the finish at Victoria Park.

Betty's Summer Vacation

Durang lay dormant for a while, heading up alongside Marsha Norman the Playwriting program at Juilliard.

Bishan MRT Station

The original platform is now dedicated to only northbound train services (heading towards Jurong East).

Bodie, Washington

approximately 15 miles by stagecoach heading north of Wauconda along Toroda Creek (County Road 9495) off Washington State Route 20.

Cambridge University Eco Racing

The team used CFD simulations to make minor tweaks to the canopy, and tested the car extensively at a local airfield, before heading out to the next World Solar Challenge in October 2011.

Chicken Truck

The song features Anderson (in first person narration) discussing an experience of getting stuck behind a Georgia truck hauling a load of chickens (Georgia is a major poultry-producing state), on Alabama State Route 65 (a winding, 2-lane highway in Jackson County in the northeast corner of Alabama) heading to Tennessee in mid-July.

Cockburn Central railway station

Platform 1 is used by trains bound for Perth underground station (these trains generally continue onto the Joondalup Line) whilst platform 2 is used by trains heading south towards Mandurah.

Come Monday

At a live performance in 1974, Buffett mentioned that he wrote the song heading out to California the previous year, meaning that it would have been written as he was "heading up to San Francisco for the Labor Day Weekend show" in 1973.

Dan Mathews

He is known for heading PETA's most controversial and attention-getting campaigns, including the "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" ads, as well as campaigns involving celebrities such as Morrissey, Pamela Anderson, Pink, and Paul McCartney.

DB Class 10

Up to 1962 they were allocated to Bebra locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk or Bw), before being transferred to Bw Kassel where they worked alongside the DRG Class 01.10s until 20 March 1967 heading fast-stopping and express trains to and from Gießen.

Evacuation Immediate

Evacuations are issued by a public official such as a police office, or county emergency management, and relayed by the NWS with the EAS tone and SAME heading.

Florida State Road 581

North of Bougainvillea Avenue, the road passes by a Yuengling brewing plant and a more commercial area, heading towards State Road 582 (Fowler Avenue), where the name changes to Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and forms the western boundary of the University of South Florida.

GWR 4900 Class 4936 Kinlet Hall

The fitting of OTMR has allowed it to provide motive power for various mainline excursions, including Vintage Trains' Shakespeare Express and the Three Choirs Express excursion, double-heading with 5029 'Nunney Castle'.

Heading Out

On 25 October 2012, it was announced that June Brown and Dawn French had joined the cast of Heading Out, along with Steve Pemberton and Jeff Rawle.

Illusive Tracks

The story revolves around the passengers on a train heading from Stockholm non-stop to Berlin, and includes murder, adultery, religion, Santa Claus and a very angry train conductor.

Interim Government of India

The senior Congress leader Vallabhbhai Patel held the second-most powerful position in the Council, heading the Department of Home Affairs, Department of Information and Broadcasting.

Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma

He was a prominent political figure from the 1970s to the 1990s, heading the Congolese Trade Union Confederation (Confédération syndicale congolaise, CSC).

Julian Blaustein

He spent a year in flight training at the Randolph Air Force Base before heading to Hollywood, where he became a reader in the story department at Universal Pictures.

Kentucky Route 1072

KY 1072 begins at an intersection with Megellan Road/Howe Road near a Fidelity office building near Fort Wright, heading northwest on two-lane undivided Highland Pike.

Lisbon Half Marathon

Heading eastwards towards the city centre, the course passes the docks and traces a route alongside much of the city's historical architecture, including the Belém Tower and Jerónimos Monastery.

Los Angeles River bicycle path

This is because the bike path on the East side of the river continues northeast onto the Rio Hondo and becomes a separate trail, heading on a different river.

M11 motorway

The first version had a mid-south section to follow a River Lea route, starting at The Angel, Islington southwest of Dalston, London, heading northeast then north taking land by the river in Walthamstow, Chingford and Waltham Cross to meet the built alignment of today, north of Harlow and the road from South Woodford to Islington would have been the designated as the M12.

Mark Rees

Rees left Colchester to play in Luxembourg briefly, before heading to the Republic of Ireland to play for Shamrock Rovers making his League of Ireland debut on the 18th of November at the RDS Arena.

Max Ochs

After leaving New York and heading west in 1965, Ochs was invited to appear with fellow University of Maryland student and fingerstyle guitarist Robbie Basho, as well as John Fahey and Harry Taussig on a Takoma Records release titled Contemporary Guitar.

Melbourne tram route 86

It then crosses the Merri Creek, continuing along Queens Parade Clifton Hill, heading south west, turning south into Smith Street passing between Fitzroy and Collingwood.

Midland Mainline

The service used the Midland Main Line as far as Trent Junction, before taking the Erewash Valley Line (avoiding Derby) to Clay Cross, rejoining the Midland Main Line until Dore South Curve, before heading west along the Hope Valley Line towards Manchester Piccadilly.

Mongul

When The Reach and Captain Atom learn that Mongul and his Warworld are heading to Earth, they both attempt to negotiate with Mongul, who ignores them.

Monon, Indiana

The northern division came into Monon and turned ninety degrees heading south to Lafayette and Louisville, Kentucky.

Pennsylvania Route 308

PA 308 begins at an intersection with PA 8 near the Clearview Mall in Center Township, Butler County, heading north on two-lane undivided West Sunbury Road.

Pennsylvania Route 332

PA 332 begins at an intersection with PA 263 (York Road) in Hatboro, Montgomery County, heading east on Montgomery Avenue, a two-lane undivided roadway.

Pennsylvania Route 437

PA 437 begins at an intersection with PA 940 in White Haven, heading north on two-lane, undivided Church Street.

Professional Referee Organization

Heading up PRO is Peter Walton, a former referee who officiated just under 200 matches in the English Premier League.

River Cart

The river forms the boundary between East Renfrewshire and South Lanarkshire here before running through the centre of the village of Busby after which it runs around the eastern side of Clarkston and Netherlee where it crosses the Glasgow city boundary into Linn Park, heading downstream to Cathcart.

Shtyki Memorial

It is located on the 40th km of Leningrad highway, at the second entry into the city of Zelenograd heading south, and the road to Mendeleyevo heading north.

Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers

When William Mylne started a new Minute Book in 1822 he used the heading "Engineers' Society" in the reports of each session until 1869, when he changed it to "Smeatonian Society".

Tapan Singhel

Prior to this, he was the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance heading all retail channels and geographies.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

In fact she was heading for Detroit, there to discharge her cargo of taconite iron ore pellets before docking in Cleveland for the winter.

Transport in Jersey

A 60cm line ran along the west coast, and another was laid out heading east from Saint Helier to Gorey.

U.S. Route 95 in California

Upon entering San Bernardino County, US 95 turns away from the Colorado River, heading northwest towards Vidal Junction, the junction with SR 62 in the Vidal Valley.

Uncle Tom's Children

The Harper Perennial edition of Wright's novel Black Boy, under the heading 'Books by Richard Wright', misprints "Uncle Tom's Children" as "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

University Link

It will start at the northernmost stop of Central Link underneath Westlake Center and continue northeast to its first stop beneath Capitol Hill at Cal Anderson Park, near Seattle Central Community College, before heading north to its final stop at the University of Washington near Husky Stadium and the Burke-Gilman Trail.

William Austin Starmer

The identity of the artists was unknown until an invoice was discovered from William A. Starmer to the Jerome Remick Music Company, with a printed heading describing Starmer as artist and medical draughtsman.

Winston Wong

The Expedition will travel 3,600 miles across Antarctica, from Patriot Hills on the west coast to the South Pole, heading north from there through the Trans-Antarctic Mountain Range, down the Leverett Glacier and across the Ross Ice Shelf to the coast at McMurdo.

Wrawby Junction

All signal boxes were built about 1916 when the section of route between Wrawby and Brocklesby was quadrupled to cope with the growing amount of freight traffic heading for the docks at Immingham and Grimsby.

Yuwen Shu

Emperor Yang's main forces put Goguryeo's key northern city Liaodong (遼東, in modern Liaoyang, Liaoning) under siege (although he was ultimately unable to capture it), but sent Yuwen with a branch army to head deep south, across the Yalu River, heading directly toward the Goguryeo capital Pyongyang.


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