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	Maryland, London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maryland, London is an area of the London Borough of Newham, near Stratford and Leyton in East London.
		The area is believed to be named after the United States state of the same name (see Maryland) after a trader from Stratford returned to the area after making his fortune there.
		The University of East London used to have a major presence in the area, up until they shut their Maryland campus in 2002.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maryland,_London (137 words)

	Bell Tower Building
		The Western Maryland Railway filled in the upper reach of the main basin and built its station.
		Western Maryland Station, in the heart of downtown Cumberland, is today the headquarters of the Canal Place Preservation Authority and the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.
		Ironically, the Western Maryland Railway eventually fell into the hands of the B&O Railroad in the 20th century, and was closed in the 1970s.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/cumberland/text.htm (13771 words)

	Bicycling: Detours on trail offer interesting way stations
		The parking lot at the renovated Western Maryland Railway station in Meyersdale has been doubled in size and half of it has been paved.
		The station is maintained by the local historical society and is usually open on weekends.
		The formerly yellow Chesapeake and Ohio caboose outside the station has been repainted Chessie blue with yellow trim and is awaiting new windows.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05168/522924.stm (946 words)

	A short walk away from George Wa
		The visitor center is located in the Western Maryland Railway Station, which was built in 1913.
		In front of the visitor center, the entrance to the railway station has been remodeled, providing a convincing replica of how it looked in the 1900’s.
		The CandO canal, as well as the railroad, was a major factor in Cumberland becoming the “Gateway to the West” in the 1920’s, making the city one of the wealthiest areas in Maryland during that time.
	userpages.umbc.edu /~jbowma1/example2.htm (477 words)

	Western Maryland Train Station
		Along the Allegheny Highland Trail in Meyersdale is the beautifully restored Western Maryland Station.
		By 1910, the Western Maryland Corps of locating engineers were resurveying to determine he rout through Meyersdale as there was significant opposition to building another railroad through town.
		The foundation measuring 36' x 99' (identical in size and design to the Frostburg station) was started on December 7, 1911 and was to be completed by March 1911.
	www.pamaplefestival.com /station.htm (963 words)

	Maryland Historical Trust
		The Archeological Society of Maryland, Inc. is active in advancing the study and preservation of archeological remains, especially in Maryland; promoting educational programs in archaeology; promoting conservation of archeological resources; supporting professionally directed excavations and related laboratory work and reporting; and serving as a bond between individual professional and non-professional archeologists working in Maryland.
		The Maryland Environmental Trust (MET), an agency of DNR, holds conservation easements on natural, agricultural, scenic, and historic properties and is the coholder of 13 easements with the Maryland Historical Trust.
		The Maryland State Archives is the historical agency for Maryland and serves as the central depository for government records of permanent value.
	www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net /presorgs.html (5921 words)

	Meyersdale, Pennsylvania
		Farmers came to town to ship their goods from the two train stations, traveling salesmen stayed in its five hotels, and the community roared through the 1920's known as a "Saturday Night" town.
		Coal was shipped on the Western Maryland and the Baltimore & Ohio from the rich veins of nearby Shaw Mines, which is still mined today.
		Coal, railroading, and agriculture shaped the community that has been the home of the Pennsylvania Maple Festival for more than 50 years, celebrating the rich heritage of a land that was first known to be occupied by the Monongahela Indians who captured the sweet water from maple trees to make maple sugar.
	www.meyersdale.org (215 words)

	London Borough of Newham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Transport in Newham has seen vast improvement in recent decades with the construction of the Docklands Light Railway and the Jubilee Line Extension with new or improved stations at Canning Town, West Ham and Stratford.
		The Stratford International Station is due to open in 2007.
		Newham is home to London City Airport and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link is being constructed through Newham with a station at Stratford which will offer fast domestic and international train services.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Borough_of_Newham (635 words)

	Model Railroad Exhibit
		Visitors to the Pennsylvania Maple Festival won't want to miss the Model Railroad Exhibit at the newly restored Western Maryland Station.
		Meyersdale also had the Western Maryland Railway line.
		The station is located at the very top of Main Street.
	www.shol.com /maple/modelrailroad.htm (203 words)

	Cumberland Visitor Center
		of the historic 1913 Western Maryland Railway Station (301-722-8226), the Cumberland Visitor Center is open year round, seven days per week from 9 AM to 5 PM.
	www.nps.gov /choh/Visitor/Centers/Cumberland2.html (105 words)

	Maryland Success Stories Preserve America Office of the Secretary of Transportation U.S. Department of Transportation
		The park is located on the grounds of the CandO Canal, and reaches the Western Maryland Railway Station and the historic neighborhoods of Cumberland, MD. TE awards helped develop pedestrian paths, landscaping, and the redevelopment and rehabilitation of the Western Maryland Railway Station.
		The Queen Anne style BandO Railroad Station in Oakland, Maryland, was built in 1884 with ornate molded brickwork, a circular tower and slate fish-scale shingles.
		The station was left to weather the elements when regular passenger stops were discontinued in 1971.
	ostpxweb.dot.gov /preserveamerica/stories/maryland/index.cfm (279 words)

	Maryland's Coal Heritage Trail
		Approximately a dozen residences and the concrete foundation of the Western Maryland Railway station remain.
		Abandoned railroad beds trace the route of the Western Maryland Railway’s Shay locomotive that serviced the mines until the end of coal operations in 1950.
		The Maryland Historical Trust Cultural Survey of the Coal Heritage Trail, Part I, is available at Allegany College in Cumberland, George’s Creek Public Library in Lonaconing, and at Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Maryland.
	www.mountaindiscoveries.com /stories/fw2002/heritagetrail_plain.html (1605 words)

	Baltimore Chronicle's Speakout
		Other ISTEA-funded projects, including the Western Maryland Railway Station, to be completed in December of 1996, and the Crescent Lawn Improvements, are underway.
		In communities throughout Maryland, ISTEA Transportation Enhancement projects have become the catalysts for urban economic and community development.
		These include bicycle and pedestrian promenades in several eastern shore towns, bike paths along the Anacostia in Prince George's County, C&O Canal rehabilitation projects, bike paths in Central Maryland, and the retrofitting of sidewalks in many of the state's older urban areas.
	baltimorechronicle.com /speakout_jan97.html (902 words)

	Maryland Railfan Sites
		Go north on Burhans, past the police station (this is the old Western Maryland Railway station) thru the center of town until you see a cement plant on your right.
		This is the MARC (Maryland Rail Commuter) station.
		The "Bowie State" Maryland Rail Commuter (MARC) station is located in Bowie, and is on the electrified Amtrak Northeast Corridor (ex-CR, exx-PC, exxx-PRR) mainline.
	www.frograil.com /railroad/md.htm (4614 words)

	Canal Place Heritage Area Comes To Life :: Weekend Adventures Magazine Online :: wamonline.com
		The renovation of the Railway Station involved the complete rehabilitation of the building and the replication of the dual canopies which originally graced the platform area of the Station.
		In 1993 the State of Maryland created the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority to oversee the preservation, development and management of the Canal Place Preservation District, a designated area within the City of Cumberland surrounding the Western Terminus of the CandO Canal.
		Appealing to the promoters of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (begun in Georgetown, Maryland in 1828) the City donated land for the Boat Basin, granted the Board indemnity from any flood damage, and gained a new opportunity as the Canal’s Western Terminus.
	www.wamonline.com /summer2000/canalplace.htm (956 words)

	Church History
		On the opposite side of the river is Blain, West Virginia, the location of a former Western Maryland Railway station.
		This little church in the mining town of Kitzmiller, Maryland, which lies at the very edge of Garrett County on the north branch of the Potomac River, dates from about 1928.
		In April of 2001 the Church purchased 14.5 acres of land along Mosser Road at McHenry, Maryland.
	www.catholicchurchofsoutherngarrettcounty.org /church_history.htm (338 words)

	Meyersdale, PA, Train Station
		Meyersdale, PA The station is operated by the Meyersdale Area Historical Society.
		The station is open weekends from May through October from 1 to 5 p.m.
		The station is at the top of the hill on your left.
	www.meyersdale.org /trail/station.html (316 words)

	Travel Guide
		The Western Maryland Railway Station is the starting point of a three hour round trip tour of the countryside on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, and is part of the Canal Place Heritage Area, the first in the State of Maryland.
		Beginning with receipt of its charter in 1852, the Western Maryland grew steadily until (luring the first half of this century its lines reached from Baltimore to Chicago.
		Cumberland was perhaps the most important stop on the road, largely because the Western Maryland here intersected the West Virginia railroad system.
	www.olcg.com /md/cumberland/main.php?state2=MD&city2=Cumberland (1030 words)

	Western Maryland Railway
		The Western Maryland traveled into the heart of the Alleghenies, at Spruce, WV the Western Maryland was at 4,066 feet above sea level, the highest main line elevation of any railroad east of the Mississippi.The above photo by Marvin H. Cohen came from Western Maryland in Color by James R. Sweetland.
		The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad daily rounds Helmstetter Curve between Cumberland and Frostburg, this photo was taken at the end of their season in 1993.
		Today, except for the scenic railroad section, the Connellsville sub is abandoned and is being converted into a bike trail which some think will eventually be the end of the scenic railroad.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/9954/photo25.html (330 words)

	Daily American Online
		The trail, however, is not open from the Western Maryland Railway Station in Meyersdale to Sand Patch because of the open gap on Scratch Hill Road that awaits the Bollman Bridge.
		Those biking from the station going south will have to turn around at Scratch Hill Road where the Bollman Bridge will be placed, but there is a smaller parking lot outside of Sand Patch.
		According to Hollern, the long awaited opening of the Somerset County section of trail from the Connellsville end to the Maryland line will be held sometime next spring.
	www.dailyamerican.com /articles/2005/11/05/news/saturday/news02.txt (550 words)

	Railroad Excursions
		- Across from the Orbisonia station is the Shade Gap Electric Railway Museum, which operates several restored streetcars on 1 ½ miles of track.
		It is a substantial and steep walk up to Frostburg from the station.
		People with heart or breathing problems are welcome on the trip, but are discouraged from walking up that long hill.
	www.pennwest.org /RRExcursions.html (427 words)

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		Maryland, Delaware, and District of Columbia Longitude and Latitudes
		MD-43 Western Maryland RY Hist Soc Mus N39
	stonerosepub.home.att.net /id27_m.htm (245 words)

	C&O Canal Towpath Allegany County, Western Maryland
		Take I-68 exit 43C to the Western Maryland Railway Station.
		Hike or bike along the scenic C&O Canal observing the gold and red hues of the rich floodplain forests.
		Take a flashlight if you plan on trekking through the Paw Paw Tunnel, which is approximately three thousand feet long.
	www.wmsr.com /print_attraction.php?attraction=257 (101 words)

	Rivanna Chapter, NRHS Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Excursion, September 10, 2005
		At the historic 1913 Western Maryland Railway passenger station we will board the train for the 32-mile round-trip to Frostburg.
		The former Western Maryland mainline is a mountainous route that will have 1916 Baldwin 2-8-0 No. 734 (former Lake Superior and Ishpeming) working hard on the grade (2.8% max.
		Copyright © 2005 by Rivanna Chapter, National Railway Historical Society
	avenue.org /nrhs/wmsr.htm (418 words)

	Railwaystation.com - Visitors' Gallery of Railroad Art
		Charlie was a former executive with the Western Maryland Railway and a close family friend of one of TrainMaster's developers
		A train fan, he is currently painting the L&N and Southern Railway depots between Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
		His artwork, The Station Agent, pictured in a thumbnail below, depicts the orderly atmosphere and nostalgia of a stationmaster's workplace, back in the steam days.
	www.railwaystation.com /vg_main.html (1746 words)

	McCarter Coach and Tour
		After a bountiful breakfast we depart Wisp and head for Cumberland, MD. Here we will visit the Western Maryland Railway Station.
		The station building is part of the Canal Place Heritage Area.
		A panoramic view of the beauty found along the shoreline of the largest freshwater lake in Maryland.
	www.mccartertours.com /funtours/04wisp.html (169 words)

	April 2004 Edition - This and That
		Surely everyone living in Thurmont in 1954 remembers the Saturday morning of February 20 when a crowd gathered on Carroll Street near the Western Maryland Railway Station to witness the final run of the Thurmont/Frederick trolley.
		When this link was completed it provided a continuous track from Frederick to Thurmont, where it made connections with the Western Maryland Railroad.
		It was in 1907 when the Washington, Frederick and Gettysburg Railroad purchased the Monocacy Valley Railroad and began building the connecting link of three miles between Lewistown and Catoctin Furnace.
	www.emmitsburg.net /history_t/archives/business/trolly.htm (621 words)

	Cycling: Whistle stop Allegheny Highlands Trail of Maryland
		It took longer than expected, as most rail-trail projects do, but the first segment of the Allegheny Highlands Trail of Maryland is in use and the second segment is well under way.
		Park across from the station or go down the hill to the parking lot on the right.
		from the beautifully renovated Cumberland railroad station and arrives in Frostburg about an hour later.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05175/527713.stm (838 words)

	C&O Canal Allegany County, Western Maryland
		The C&O Canal then operated until 1924 as a transportation route primarily hauling coal from Western Maryland.
		Original structures including locks, lockhouses, and aqueducts serve as reminders of the canal's role as a transportation system.
		The Canal was then completed in Cumberland and opened on October 10, 1850.
	www.mdmountainside.com /attraction.php?attraction=33 (107 words)

	Funding Approved For C&O Canal Terminus Restoration Project :: Weekend Adventures Magazine Online :: wamonline.com
		The long-range plan of the National Park Service is to rewater two miles of the canal from the terminus adjacent to the Western Maryland Railway Station downstream to the Candoc neighborhood.
		This important project, undertaken by the Maryland State Highway Administration, was crucial to redeveloping the canal and enhancing the adjacent area along a two-mile corridor.
		The National Park Service, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority, and the City of Cumberland, Maryland, is working to restore the historic terminus of the CandO Canal in downtown Cumberland.
	www.wamonline.com /fall2002/canalrewatering.htm (468 words)

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