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Siding

The first architectural application of aluminium was the mounting of a small grounding cap on the Washington Monument in 1884.


2010 North West 200 Races

The only notable incident was Conor Cummins high-siding his bike on the exit of University Corner during the Superstock race.

Aller Valley Railway

At Oldau station an industrial siding branched off eastwards to the Einigkeit II (Prinz Adalbert) potash works in Ovelgönne.

Bledlow railway station

A single siding equipped with a 2 ton yard crane handled goods traffic which consisted of watercress and English elm boles for trawling nets made locally in Longwick.

Bonincontro Morigia

He took an active part in the political struggles of his time, siding with the party of the Visconti, lords of Milan.

Boulton

Isaac Watt Boulton (1823—1899), owned a locomotive-hire business known as Boulton's Siding

Brill railway station

In 1885 the Duke of Buckingham opened a modern brickworks near Brill station, with a dedicated siding, and in 1895 his heir William Temple-Gore-Langton, 4th Earl Temple of Stowe, expanded the brickworks, which became the Brill Brick & Tile Works, using the Brill Tramway to deliver bricks to the mainline at Quainton Road.

Chirk railway station

To the north of Chirk station on the Up (southbound) side of the line is a private siding into the Kronospan chipboard factory.

CIE 611 Class

They went into traffic in various parts of the country, as shunting engines at smaller depots such as Dublin's North City Mills siding, and branch line duties such as between Attymon and Loughrea.

Clan MacAuley of the Glens

The MacAuleys and MacPhoils arrived mid-way through the battle, and had planned on siding with the McQuillans and O'Neills, but the chief of the clan was persuaded by Sorley Boy MacDonnell to join forces with the MacDonnells.

Coonabarabran

Siding Spring is also home to the Uppsala Telescope where Robert H. McNaught discovered his now famous daylight comet C/2006 P1 in August 2006.

Deer Park railway station

The Nobel siding (now ICIANZ) was closed in 1955, and in 1974 the line from Sunshine to Deer Park West Junction was duplicated, the current island platform provided, and the signal box closed as the line was now being worked by Centralised Traffic Control from Sunshine.

Disney's Yacht Club Resort

The resort's distinctive grey siding with red and white striped awnings distinguish itself from the light blue motif of Beach Club.

Dungarvon River

The river is noted for Atlantic salmon fishing, and is immortalized by the legend of the Dungarvon Whooper and in the Brennen Siding Trilogy by Canadian writer Herb Curtis.

Fareham railway station

The bay platform for services to Alton via the closed Meon Valley Line was on the opposite (car park) side of this platform, a short siding is all that remains at the north end of platform 3.

Ferdinand Gottlieb

He is best known for his interior design of the original Rizzoli International Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in New York City (1964), and for his landmark Saul Victor House in the Riverdale section of New York City (1967), noted in the American Institute of Architects' AIA Guide to New York City as a "formal modernist design in now-grayed redwood siding".

Finchley Central tube station

Close to the station on the north side United Dairies had a large creamery and milk bottling plant, which was provided with a siding and access to an unloading dock for milk trains.

Gleb Bokii

Despite this complicity, historian Alexander Rabinowitch indicates that Bokii was among the more moderate Bolshevik voices on the question of the use of terror in the summer of 1918, siding with Elena Stasova in opposing Grigory Zinoviev's call for a full scale Red Terror at a critical meeting held in the wake of Uritsky's killing.

Groß Karben station

South of the railway an industrial siding branches off to the east to a factory now owned by Continental Automotive Systems; this siding is no longer used.

J. Howard Marshall III

He was disinherited by his father, J. Howard Marshall II, after siding with William Koch in Koch's attempt to take over Koch Industries, Inc. from his brother, Charles Koch; Marshall II, who was a board member of the company, and his other son, E. Pierce Marshall, supported Charles.

Kakhovka

The 1935 film Three Friends (Три товарища) included the song "Kakhovka" (words by Mikhail Svetlov and music by Isaak Dunayevsky), which became very well known, especially the refrain "Мы мирные люди, но наш бронепоезд/ Стоит на запасном пути" ("We are peaceful people, but our armored train/ Stands ready on the siding").

Lancashire Union Railway

The line had another siding which intersected two of the Heapey reservoirs before serving the Heapey Bleachworks; half of the bridge carrying the line over Higher House Lane to the works is still in situ.

Larrimah, Northern Territory

The 8th Australian Staging Camp, built by the Australian Army was set up in Larrimah for troops making the journey by road from Adelaide before transferring onto rail at Larrimah siding for the rest of the journey to Darwin.

Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad

LAL ownership begins at the east end of Genesee Junction with the former Conrail non-controlled siding that runs parallel to the West Shore Branch from Genesee Junction Yard to MP 360.

Malcolm Hartley

The asteroid 4768 Hartley (1988 PH1) was named in his honour, being deputy astronomer of the U.K. Schmidt telescope at Siding Spring, with which this minor planet was discovered.

Meadowbank Manufacturing Company

Land at Meadowbank, New South Wales was cleared, a railway siding built and a tram road made to the wharf.

Mooroopna railway station

A goods siding for the Ardmona fruit factory is located across from the station, which is served by Pacific National operated services for Patrick PortLink.

Nuclear weapons tests in Australia

A testing site at Maralinga was established in 1955, close to a siding along the Trans-Australian Railway.

Ontario Highway 651

At the midpoint of the route, a short road branches off to the east, connecting with Dalton, a siding on the Canadian Pacific Railway's transcontinental line.

Ootha

In 1970, the first run of the Indian Pacific between Sydney and Perth was completed, but not after the railway siding having to be moved after one of the carriages collected the siding in the trial stage.

Paar Valley Railway

The sawmill of Anton Heggenstaller based in Unterbernbach has refurbished its siding and loading area, so that regular wood trains from the Augsburg Localbahn and other private railway companies, like the OHE may be seen.

Peelwood Colliery

The colliery was linked to the company's other pits, Combermere and Cleworth Hall by a mineral railway which had exchange sidings with the Tyldesley Loopline.

After 1888 an exchange siding was constructed next to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's line from Manchester to Wigan, providing access for the company's coal traffic.

Prada gender discrimination case

Judged: October 26, 2012 - The judge Reiko Morioka dismissed, siding with Prada.

PRR B6

B6sa #60 is on a siding in Hockessin, Delaware, along the Wilmington and Western Railroad.

Puxton

Puxton was a railhead for the milk trains of the London Co-operative Society, who built a creamery next to the station, which was served by its own private siding.

Rice, California

The subdivision and siding are still in use, but have since changed hands and currently belong to the Arizona and California Railroad, a short line serving southeastern California from Rice to Cadiz, California and southwestern Arizona at Parker.

Ropes Creek railway line

At Dunheved railway station, a fenced in compound was constructed on the down branch and down No. 1 siding, and 2 suburban train carriages were stored there for use by the NSW Fire Brigade for training purposes - Comeng motor car C3866 and Goninan Tangara car N5127.

Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick

Joseph Arthur Melanson, the largest settler and missionary in Saint-Quentin Parish, originally named Anderson Siding, launched a large program of colonization.

Schofields railway station

The former station was originally opened as a siding stop with a platform made from railway sleepers in the early 1870s on the western side of the track, which was later rebuilt in brick in 1888 along with a goods loop after the Richmond line was upgraded by John Whitton the then Engineer-in-Chief.

Shellpot Branch

An additional non-electrified track which serves DuPont's Edgemoor freight siding splits off from the NEC at the Interstate 495 underpass.

South Gippsland railway line

Just after the withdrawal of all rail service beyond Koala Siding, the section from Nyora to Leongatha was transferred to the South Gippsland Railway in 1994, in which were originally founded as the 'Great Southern Railway Society' based in Nyora in 1990 with the intention to preserve the line in case of closure.

Southwest Tower Building

The building has also earned the moniker of "Telemarketing Tower" for the large number of telemarketing operations that have been based inside it over the years ranging from the Republican Party of Texas phone center to Sears Vinyl Siding.

Tie Siding, Wyoming

Tie Siding interacted with such nearby communities as Virginia Dale, LaPorte and Pingree Park.

Treloar's Hospital Platform railway station

Treloar's Hospital Platform (also known as Alton Park and Cripples' Home Siding) was a railway station which served Lord Mayor Treloar's hospital in Alton, Hampshire, England.

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

The great philosophers and theologians of the West were divided on the subject: the Dominican St. Thomas Aquinas siding with those who declined to defend the doctrine definitively and Blessed Duns Scotus attacked for his novel philosophical definition founded in Christological theology.

Virginia, Free State

When a railway siding was eventually established at this spot, the name was adopted, and it stuck after the discovery of gold in 1949 which resulted in a mushrooming settlement on the banks of the Sand River.

Waingawa Railway Station

It was a private siding that had for a long time been known as Donald’s Siding, and was used by the Wellington Meat Export Company to load livestock for transport to their abattoir at Ngahauranga.

Wannamal, Western Australia

In 1892 the Midland railway was extended as far as Wannamal and a siding was opened in the townsite in 1895.


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