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Harrow-on-the-Hill station

The GCR ran on the former Great Central Main Line, an intercity trunk route and provided services from Harrow to destinations such as Rugby, Leicester, Nottingham and Manchester.


Chiltern Railways

The line to Aylesbury Vale Parkway via Amersham runs alongside London Underground's Metropolitan Line between Finchley Road) and Harrow-on-the-Hill, with each operator running on separate tracks, then shares the tracks with Metropolitan Line services.

Harrow and Uxbridge Railway

In 1904, it opened what is now the Uxbridge branch of the Metropolitan line, connecting Uxbridge to the Metropolitan Railway near Roxborough Lane (now Roxborough Road) close to Harrow-on-the-Hill station.

Mary of the Passion

Growth reached a point where she was able to staff a new convent in Oocatamund (Udhagamandalam), Tamil Nadu, a popular hill station deep in the Nilgiri mountains, located in the Vicariate Apostolic of Diocese of Coimbatore, established under the authority of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.

Norodom Chantaraingsey

After the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge on April 17, 1975, Chantaraingsey is thought to have retreated with his men to the area around the former hill station of Kirirom, where he had considerable support from the local peasantry.


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Berridale, New South Wales

On 28 March 1942, a USAAF P-40E fighter made an emergency landing at "Wheat Hill" station, after becoming lost in fog during a flight from Canberra.

Birmingham City Centre

The Midland Metro system, opened in 1999, terminates at Snow Hill station and has stops at St Paul's and the Jewellery Quarter.

Central Province, Sri Lanka

The Central Province attracts many tourists, with hill station towns such as Gampola, Hatton and Nuwara Eliya.

Chaukul

Amboli ghat is another popular hill station that is situated near Chaukul Village.

Coonoor, New Zealand

Named after Coonoor, the famous hill station in India, Coonoor is a small sheep-farming district in the Northern Wairarapa, approximately 38 km south-east of Dannevirke, and 48 km north-east of Pahiatua.

Donald Clive Anderson

In 1924 with C. L. Morell, Anderson toured several stations in the Northern Territory and Queensland - Barclay Downs, Lawn Hill Station, Alexandra - before returning through Goondiwindi and Pukawidgi near Inverell in 1925.

Girivan

Girivan happens to be a hill station in Hotale village near Kolvan of Mulshi taluka of Pune district.

Gurindji Strike

In 1914, Wave Hill Station was bought by Vesteys, a British pastoral company comprising a large conglomerate of cattle companies owned by Baron Vestey.

Jabba

Malam Jabba, a hill station in Pakistan, which is home to the Malam Jabba Ski Resort.

Jonathan Addleton

He spent his early years with his parents in Upper Sind then attended the Murree Christian School, located at an old British Himalayan hill station near the tiny crossroads town of Jhika Gali in the Murree hills of Rawalpindi District, Punjab province.

Malavli

Malavli (Marathi: मळवली) is a burgeoning town and a hill station in Pune district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Mataji Krishna Priya

Kala Venkata Rao discussed this with Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, the then Governor of Madhya Pradesh, who suggested Pachmarhi, a hill station in Madhya Pradesh.

Newcastle, Jamaica

Formerly a military hill station for the British Army it is now a training centre for the Jamaica Defence Force.

Snow Hill Lines

Historically, the lines running through Snow Hill station were built by the Great Western Railway, and so they are largely separate from the lines running into New Street station, which were built by the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway.

Snow Hill railway station

For Snow Hill station in Birmingham, see Birmingham Snow Hill station.

For the former Snow Hill station in London, see Holborn Viaduct railway station.

Tourism in Assam

Located here, amid orchards is Assam's only hill station, Haflong.

Tourism in Jammu and Kashmir

Srinagar - Capital of Jammu and Kashmir, a popular hill station

Ugyen Dorji

In 1910, Sikkim Political Officer and Tibetologist Sir Charles Alfred Bell engaged Bhutan and signed the Treaty of Punakha and other agreements that had the effect of assigning land in Motithang (Thimphu) and a hill station between Chukha and Thimphu to the British, assigning a portion of Kalimpong to Bhutan, and doubling the per annum subsidy from Britain to Bhutan.

United States Post Office–Lenox Hill Station

The U.S. Post Office-Lenox Hill Station is located at 221 East 70th Street between Second and Third Avenues in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

Velma Middleton

While touring with Armstrong in Sierre Leone, she had a stroke or heart attack on January 25, 1961 and died on February 10, 1961 in the Hill Station Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Woodside School, Ooty

Woodside School is a co-educational boarding school and day school situated on the outskirts of Udhagamandalam Tamil Nadu, India, a hill station which is more commonly known under its abbreviated name of Ooty.