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    The Gasworks Tunnel is a set of three parallel railway tunnels carrying the East Coast Main Line from London King's Cross terminus under Regent's Canal...
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    February 1945, a passenger train to Leeds and Bradford stalled in Gasworks Tunnel, ran back and was derailed in the station. Two people were killed and...
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  • express to Leeds. Shortly after leaving the station and entering Gasworks Tunnel, the locomotive's wheels started slipping on a newly replaced section...
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    Belle Isle, just south of Copenhagen Tunnel all four lines become bidirectional before passing through Gasworks Tunnel to King's Cross station. Network Rail...
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    The Canal Tunnels are a pair of single track railway tunnels in north London which connect the East Coast Main Line to London St Pancras International...
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  • The infrastructure of the East Coast Main Line consists of the tunnels, viaducts and bridges on the East Coast Main Line as well as the line-side monitoring...
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  • Railway six-wheel carriage broke as the train was passing through Gasworks Tunnel. The cause found to be that the axle was made from defective materials...
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  • Junction opened 2018 Canal Tunnels Great Northern Cemetery station Gasworks Tunnel King's Cross Goods 1850–1854 Regent's Canal King's Cross York Road...
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    Copenhagen Tunnel North London line North London line Midland Main Line East Coast Main Line Regent's Canal Gasworks Tunnel Canal Tunnels London St Pancras...
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    contours, resulting in many curves and gradients. Seven bridges and one tunnel were required, with 60 ft (18 m) cuttings at Desborough and Sharnbrook....
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    Copenhagen Tunnel North London line North London line Midland Main Line East Coast Main Line Regent's Canal Gasworks Tunnel Canal Tunnels London St Pancras...
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  • platform 5 into the uphill Gasworks Tunnel, but begins sliding backwards on slippery rails, and with few lights in the tunnel, the driver does not notice...
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    completed. April: As part of the East Coast Upgrade, the disused eastern Gasworks Tunnel reopened to traffic. May: Class 769 bi-mode units converted from electric...
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    the peninsula was dominated by the gasworks which primarily produced town gas, also known as coal gas. The gasworks grew to 240 acres (0.97 km2), the largest...
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  • the train attendant. The exit from Kings Cross station is through Gasworks Tunnel, which has three bores, each of which had two tracks at the time of...
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    Transport Trust to identify sites of significant transport heritage. Granton Gasworks were formerly one of Edinburgh waterfront's most prominent landmarks, comprising...
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    station which was built above the access tunnels of the adjoining gasworks site. In Queensland, the Gasworks Newstead is a commercial, residential, and...
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    revised circuit, with a longer tunnel, a new section of track around the new swimming pool on the harbour front, and the Gasworks hairpin replaced by the Rascasse...
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    Harrogate Gasworks Railway was an industrial railway in the town of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. It was built to the gauge of 2 ft and ran between...
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    The historic line was constructed in the 1870s and has several notable tunnels and viaducts such as the imposing Ribblehead. The line is managed by Network...
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    Racecourse. It was removed after the Olympics. Oxpens River Bridge (between Gasworks and Osney Rail Bridges in Oxford, 51°44'50.2"N 1°15'56.0"W) a footbridge...
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  • Llanishen in Cardiff, reclaiming contaminated land on a former highly polluted gasworks site in Lancashire; Jutta Ditfurth; Hans-Georg Peine of BASF AG, and the...
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    the high moorlands of the northern Peak District through the Woodhead Tunnels. The line was electrified in 1953 and closed between Hadfield and Penistone...
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    one of the oldest gasworks. Two hexagonal buildings that housed the gas holders are part of the world's oldest remaining gasworks buildings. After half...
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    lighthouse, Egypt (1869) Ras gharib lighthouse, Egypt (1871) Gasworks, La Paz, Bolivia (1873) Gasworks, Tacna, Peru (1873) Church of San Marcos, Arica, Chile...
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    underneath the car park of the City of Manchester Stadium (the site of a former gasworks). It is visible flowing through Mayfield Park and under a bridge on Baring...
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    northwestern corner of Little Wormwood Scrubs including Red House Farm and a gasworks was exchanged for 5 acres (2.0 ha) in the south east corner; much of the...
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    Midland Railway opened the line to provide coal trains to the Duckhall gasworks near to Boxmoor. A connection was constructed as far as the LNWR sidings...
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    construction of a long tunnel; this was opened in 1847. It was on a steep incline and was worked by rope haulage. The rope-worked tunnel proved a major handicap...
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    Hamlets. Built between 1872 and 1878 to store gas from the nearby Bromley gasworks, the site stopped storing gas in 2010, and is currently a brownfield site...
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