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Gravesend, Kent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. Gravesend is briefly mentioned in the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley during Victor's travels through the United Kingdom with Clerval; ultimately culminating in Victor's residence in the Orkney Islands. Gravesend is the administrative town of the Borough of Gravesham. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gravesend,_Kent   (2741 words)

GRAVESEND - LoveToKnow Article on GRAVESEND Gravesend is a favorite resort of the inhabitants of London, both for excursions and as a summer residence; it is also a favorite yachting centre. Gravesend, which is within the Port of London, has some import trade in coal and timber, and fishing, especially of shrimps, is carried on extensively. Gravesend parish church contains memorials to Princess Pocahontas, who died when prepang to return home from a visit to England in 1617, and was buried in the old church. www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GR/GRAVESEND.htm   (657 words)

Gravesend railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gravesend railway station serves the town of Gravesend in north Kent; train services are operated by Southeastern. The first railway to arrive in Gravesend was the Gravesend and Rochester Railway (GandRR) who had purchased the Thames and Medway Canal and its tunnel between Strood and Higham. The station is 24 miles (38km) from London Charing Cross. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gravesend_railway_station   (239 words)

Open Directory - Reference: Encyclopedias: Subject Encyclopedias: Spartacus Educational: Railways in the 19th Century L and M Railway Company - Was 31 miles long and consisted of a double line of rails of the fish-bellied type and laid on stone or timber sleepers. Was a station on the Manchester and Leeds Railway. Was a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. dmoz.org /Reference/Encyclopedias/Subject_Encyclopedias/Spartacus_Educational/Railways_in_the_19th_Century   (2643 words)

Albany Park railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Trains from the station run eastbound to Dartford, Gravesend and to London Cannon Street via Slade Green, and westbound to Cannon Street and London Charing Cross via Lewisham. Albany Park railway station is in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London, in Travelcard Zone 5. The station, and all trains serving it, is operated by Southeastern. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albany_Park_railway_station   (187 words)

Railway Magazine Volumes 1 to 19 Corrugated fireboxes on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Blackpool – the Brighton of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. In 1894 the railway was vested jointly in the MR and GWR. www.steamindex.com /rlymag/rm1on.htm   (12541 words)

Gravesend railway station: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic Gravesend railway station serves the town of Gravesend in North Kent. Sidcup railway station is in sidcup in the london borough of bexley in south-east london, in travelcard zone 5.... Lewisham station is a railway and docklands light railway station in lewisham in south east london.... www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gr/Gravesend_railway_station.htm   (187 words)

Dartford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The first railway from London to reach the town was the North Kent Line via Woolwich in 1849, connecting at Gravesend with the line through the Medway Towns. The original station buildings at Dartford were replaced in the 1980s by a local firm called Trescott Prout, LTD, then headed by local businessman and philanthropist Jesus Lepine. Eventually tarmacadam roads appeared; and in 1925 the building of what was to become the A2 main road took traffic away from Dartford town Centre. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dartford   (1279 words)

Swanscombe railway station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The typical off-peak service from the station is two trains per hour to Gravesend, and two trains per hour to London Charing Cross, via Sidcup and Lewisham. Swanscombe railway station serves the town of Swanscombe in North Kent. Train times and station information for Swanscombe railway station from National Rail (Station code: SWM) en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swanscombe_railway_station   (145 words)

Properties To Let from Home from Home There is easy on-the-road parking and it is within walking distance of all amenities and approximately a 15-minute walk to the railway station with fast trains to station, buses and main shops, as well as the A2/M2; the location remains, nonetheless, smart and peaceful. The bungalow is approached through a large front garden into a light, airy hall. members.aol.com /wcandhfh/hfh03.htm   (792 words)

Dartford railway station: Encyclopedia topic Dartford railway station serves the town of Dartford (Dartford: more facts about this subject) in Kent (Kent: A county in southeastern England on the English Channel; the first to be colonized by the Romans). The first station was opened here by the South Eastern Railway (South Eastern Railway: the london and greenwich railway (lgr) and the canterbury and whitstable railway (cwr)... Victoria (Victoria: A waterfall in the Zambezi River on the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia; diminishes seasonally) to Dartford via Denmark Hill (Denmark Hill: denmark hill railway station is on the inner south london line (sometimes also known... www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/dartford_railway_station   (502 words)

TILBURG - LoveToKnow Article on TILBURG The length of quayage is about 21/2 m., and there is extensive warehousing as well as accommodation for passengers, as the largest passenger steamers trading with the Port of London lie here. , a town in the province of north Brabant, Holland, and a junction station 131/2 m. Railway communication is provided by the London, Tilbury and Southelld line, and there is direct connection for goods traffic with all the northern lines. www.1911ency.org /T/TI/TILBURG.htm   (258 words)

Gravesend Cygnet House is conveniently situated close to Gravesend railway station in the heart of this Thames side heritage town. The ceremony suites are served by their own entrance and foyer reserved exclusively for ceremony parties. www.kent.gov.uk /Community/births-marriages-and-deaths/our-services/local-offices/gravesend.htm   (252 words)

Gravesend & Darent Valley Branch of CAMRA present a Beer Festival on Friday 6th & Saturday 7th October 2006 Also Gravesend railway station is within 10 minutes walk of venue. Local bus operates from Dartford and Medway areas to Gravesend. Gravesend and Darent Valley Branch of CAMRA present a Beer Festival on Friday 6th & Saturday 7th October 2006 www.gravesend-camra-beer-festival.org.uk   (40 words)

Gravesend Kent Gravesend, M25 junction 1B, A226 from Dartford or Rochester. Gravesend, on the banks of the Thames, opposite Tilbury, there is a ferry connecting them. 'A Hotel To Come Home To', The Manor Hotel in Gravesend Located 4 miles east of the M25, the Hotel is ideally situated for Guests either on Business or Pleasure. www.touruk.co.uk /kent/ken_grav.htm   (189 words)

ANN HOLLAND GOF At Northfleet just outside Gravesend is the International Railway station with the high speed link when completed 2 1/2 hours to Paris 3 hours to Brussels and 12 mins to London at present 45 mins plus. Gravesend is the beginning or end of the Port of London, the river pilots board the ships to see them up the river and we have a custom house and since last year and the report on the Marchioness riverboat disaster an inshore lifeboat. Gravesend has the second largest Asian community in Britain and they are building a new Sikh temple a cross between the Taj Mahal and the Golden temple at Amritsa. sisouthafrica.freeservers.com /ann_gof.html   (1817 words)

Lyme Ct Town Hall town hall theater Dartford- 6.15 - Railway Station. Gravesend - 5.45 - 6-8 Overcliffe, Bexhill - 11.15 - Town Hall Square. www.wakinguphealth.com /healing/Lyme-Ct-Town-Hall   (157 words)

Names of locations The Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway was incorporated in 1854 and reached Conwil on 3 September 1860; Llanpumpsaint on 28 March 1864, and Llandyssil on 3 June 1864. The two proposed lines were amalgamated as the Buckinghamshire Railway and were built by the LNWR partly as a measure intended to limit the extent of the GWR broad gauge. The Killin Railway Company, independent until the Grouping, was financed largely by the Marquis of Breadalbane and Holland and was constructed to connect the steamer service on Loch Tay with the Callander and Oban Railway. www.steamindex.com /places/names.htm   (3085 words)

North Kent Line - Gravesend: was originally named Gravesend Central to differentiate it from the ex-London, Chatham and Dover Railway station at Gravesend West which closed in 1968 In 1846 the SER purchased the Thames and Medway Canal tunnel near Higham and laid railway tracks through it; in 1847 trains were working through from Strood, on the River Medway to Gravesend. The North Kent Line is a railway line which connects central and south east London with Dartford and Medway. psychcentral.com /psypsych/North_Kent_Line   (498 words)

Start of the adventure It was a icy winter night and the land was covered with snow but all the friends, neighbours and relatives from the surrounding districts came to see them off, arriving at the railway station on foot, on horseback and in wagons. A sail of three days across to GRAVESEND gave them a foretaste of what the sea had in store for them, and several, at that stage, would have been glad to turn back to their landlocked country and never consider crossing the sea again. At the STAAB station the company broke up and the people made their route back across the snow to lonely homes from which one or more of their loved one's had gone forever. turnwald.freehomepage.com /chapter3.html   (1022 words)

BARKING RAILWAY STATION Well, c2c runs Barking station, but in their information they often forget that it is served by other lines. There are 12 stations on the line and you can safely reckon the timetable at 3 minutes per station. Each station is indexed to one of 48 squares on the map. homepage.ntlworld.com /colinnewman/stationold.html   (2163 words)

wrair10.txt In a little while no one thought anything of crossing an abyss on a wire, and the mono- rail was superseding the tram-lines, railways: and indeed every form of track for mechanical locomotion. He had driven Sir Peter Bone until he was fifty and then he took to drink a little, and driving the station bus, which lasted him until he was seventy-eight. Where land was cheap the rail ran along the ground, where it was dear the rail lifted up on iron standards and passed overhead; its swift, convenient cars went everywhere and did everything that had once been done along made tracks upon the ground. www.twd.net /ird/forecast/wrair10.txt   (20628 words)

Hotels in Gravesend: Hotel Guest Houses and Accommodation in the UK Hotels in Gravesend: Hotel Guest Houses and Accommodation in the UK Contact Us Located at Gravesend, adjacent to the A2/M2 Motorway the Hotel is only 4 miles east of junction 2 of the M25, with quick and easy access to both Gatwick and Heathrow airports, the Channel Ports. A sophisticated Georgian mansion built in 1806, Brandshatch Place stands proudly in twelve and a half acres of lush countryside in the Garden of England. www.accommodation.uk.net /gravesend.htm   (1013 words)

Gravesend West Branch On July 24th 1882 the railway was given permission to build a pier on the river Thames and carry the railway on to it Bridges carrying the branch railway over the A2 (London - Dover) road were demolished in January/February 1991 and I took the only photographs of the removal of the double track span at 5am on Sunday 2nd February. station served Rosherville Gardens and was destaffed from June 17th 1928, the gardens having closed in 1910. www.ctrlphoto.freeuk.com /gravesen.htm   (451 words)

Bluewater Shopping Centre - All trains running between Gravesend and Dartford now stop at Greenhithe, which had previously been served infrequently. It was opened on March 16, 1999 and is connected by shuttle bus to Greenhithe railway station. Bluewater Shopping Centre is a large out-of-town shopping mall located in Greenhithe in the borough of Dartford, just outside London in north-west Kent. psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bluewater   (553 words)

McLennan Notes Annie was the daughter of the late railway station master William Alford and his wife Ann nee Bennett. Inexplicably, Lindsay stated his residence to be Gravesend at the time of the marriage. No children have been found born (or baptised) to the couple on the IOW (up to 1910), and neither have Lindsay's nor Annie's deaths been recorded there. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/gordonchilds/studios/mclennan.htm   (338 words)

BBC News UK Murdered man was Albanian refugee A man stabbed to death on the platform of a Kent railway station was an Albanian refugee, police have said. The 28-year-old man, who has not been named, was found by police officers who were called to a disturbance at Gravesend station, Kent, on Tuesday afternoon. The fight started outside Tesco in New Road, Gravesend, at 1.50pm on Tuesday and continued on a train at the station. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/583866.stm   (169 words)

Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Times [London] - 11 September 1888 Great excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Commercial-street Police-station during the afternoon on account of the arrival from Gravesend of a suspect whose appearance resembled in some respects that of "Leather Apron." This man, whose name is William Henry Pigott, was taken into custody on Sunday night at the Pope's Head publichouse, Gravesend. He gave his age as 52, and stated he was a native of Gravesend, his father having some years ago had a position there in connexion with the Royal Liver Society. The murderer must have known the neighbourhood, which is provided with no fewer than four police stations, and is well watched nightly, on account of the character of many of the inhabitants. www.casebook.org /press_reports/times/18880911.html   (6743 words)

Greenwich Industrial History Society, Issue 2 It was then planned to generate at Greenwich the power for the railway extensions in North East London and for the trolley buses which were to replace the trams in south and east London. But Greenwich Power Station did not begin to supply the railway operations until 1933 when the LCC Tramways were absorbed into the London Transport Passenger Board. Mary and I visited the station, which is on the river-side almost on the Meridian Line, on 6th June in the company of about twelve other people. gihs.gold.ac.uk /gihs2.html   (8399 words)

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