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In the News (Thu 16 Feb 12)

  
  River Thames
There are many bridges and tunnels crossing the Thames, including Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Lambeth Bridge[?], and the Dartford Crossing.
There are also many tunnels used by "tube" trains as part of the London Underground network or (at Greenwich), the Docklands Light Railway, and a free ferry for vehicles, cycles and people on foot during daylight hours at Woolwich.
A further tunnel is under construction as part of a high speed international railway line between Ebbsfleet in Kent and Stratford in Newham[?].
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thames.html   (579 words)

  
 para/site ÃÀ³NªÅ¶¡   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Victoria Tunnel is the solo exhibition by Leung Chi Wo who has been continuously exploring the sense of history in our local life with the use of mixed mediums like photography, sculptures and installation.
In Victoria Tunnel, Leung makes use such dual significance and the concept of passage: a virtual tunnel from the historical Victoria to the "Region of Profits" to address our experience of life and memory.
With the juxtaposition of "Victoria Tunnel" and "Entering a creature", hopefully an open discussion on the idea of passing historically, culturally or even conceptually can be initiated.
www.para-site.org.hk /_pre/97_victoria.htm   (315 words)

  
 Victoria Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Victoria Line is a line of the London Underground, coloured light blue on the Tube map.
In some cases this was achieved by placing the Victoria Line platforms on either side of the existing station, while in others the Victoria Line uses one of the old platforms and the older line was diverted into a new platform.
The Victoria Line is served by a fleet of 43 1967 Tube Stock trains.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Victoria_Line   (577 words)

  
 tunnel.gr   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Homer Tunnel in Fiordland, South Island, connects Milford Sound to Te Anau and Queenstown running between the valley of the Eglinton and Hollyford Rivers.
The Mount Victoria Tunnel, in Wellington, is 623 meters long and was opened in 1931.
The Otira tunnel, is located on the Midland Line in the South Island between Otira and Arthur's Pass and runs under the Southern Alps.
www.ship.gr /tunnel/newz.htm   (87 words)

  
 "Victoria's Repose" By: Mistacor
Victoria lounged in the moonlight on top of the old Ford, Plato sleeping closely beside her, her eyes a peaceful azure in the darkness as they kept vigil over the other Jellicles resting all around her.
Victoria's felt her hackles raise in blinded hope, though she did not fully comprehend how it would be possible.
Victoria stared down at the puddle, taking in all the words to her soul in a piled heap of confusion and understanding.
www.angelfire.com /musicals/fanfiction0/victoriasrepose   (1015 words)

  
 No. 1791: The Thames Tunnel
This shield was driven into the earth as workers dug their way forward, and others followed, building the masonry supports for the tunnel.
By the time Isambard reached his 21st birthday, three hundred feet of tunnel were finished, and he threw himself a great birthday party under the river.
The tunnel was finally drained, and it was finished in 1843.
www.uh.edu /engines/epi1791.htm   (536 words)

  
 BBC - WW2 People's War - WW2 Bomb Shelters
Examples of this were the use of some London Underground tunnels as air raid shelters and, not far from where I live, the use of a part of the Victoria Tunnel at Newcastle upon Tyne as an air raid shelter.
The Victoria Tunnel was built to carry coals from the Spital Tongues Colliery at Newcastle upon Tyne (sometimes known as Leazes Main Colliery), to the river Tyne near to Glasshouse Bridge.
The colliery closed in 1859-60 and the tunnel remained closed for almost 80 years until 1939, when the part of it which ran under the centre of Newcastle, at a depth of about 12 metres (sufficient to be considered bomb-proof) was converted into an air raid shelter at a cost of andpound;37,000.
www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/29/a1125929.shtml   (1081 words)

  
 Heritage Help - Hataitai Local History-Tram or Bus Tunnel
It was said a tunnel would shorten the distance from North Kilbirnie (ie Hataitai) to the city by two-thirds of a mile.
The tunnel was dug by pick and shovel and explosives, the earth put into iron trucks and sent rolling down hill on the rails laid down Moxham Avenue to Evans Bay, where the Recreation Grounds are now, and the spoil taken out of the tunnel was tipped there to make an extension of the Reserve.
The tram tracks, tram wire and two small water mains were taken out of the tunnel, and replaced with trolley bus wires, ducting for phone cables, electricity cables and a new 15-inch water main down the centre of the tunnel floor.
www.heritagehelp.co.nz /tunnel.html   (911 words)

  
 Great Central in Nottingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Victoria Street tunnel is still accessible for maintenance work on the heating pipes, by way of a door at the south end of the Victoria Centre car park.
Victoria Station was built in a cutting in the Bunter sandstone on which Nottingham is built.
The Victoria Centre did not fill the entire cutting, even after it was extended in the late 1990s, and the former cutting walls and brickwork are still open to view.
www.leverton.org /tunnels/notts-gcr/index.html   (736 words)

  
 LEDCO: Docking, Mounting Solutions for Rugged Mobile Laptops including Panasonic Toughbooks
Tunnel Plate Over is used as a vehicle tunnel arch that anchors on the inside seat bolts.
Tunnel Short is used as a trunk mounting base plate or as an extension of vehicle tunnel mounted solutions.
Tunnel Plate - Tilt Lazy Susan Mount - 10 inch Tube package for GM Suburban - Tahoe - Silverado - 1500 - 2500 - 3500 - Sierra and Yukon '99-05 - Includes feet that mount to seat bolts - No drilling required.
www.ledco.net /products.php   (3444 words)

  
 Tunnels in New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nine tunnels on the North Island Main Trunk Railway that were deviated around between 1981 and 1985.
According to Maori legend, the rock promontory which this tunnel pierces is the remains of the Tainui Waka.
There are short (less than 50 m) tunnels on SH 3 between New Plymouth and Te Kuiti - one at the summit of Mt Messenger and a single-lane one in the Awakino gorge.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tunnels_in_New_Zealand   (1081 words)

  
 Victoria Park may get more than one tunnel - 07 Dec 2004 - National   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
And the national roading agency is not ruling out eventually building a second tunnel under the park, once it completes studies on the route of a new harbour crossing costing up to $3 billion.
The tunnel, which it hopes to build for no more than $200 million to carry northbound traffic, will double the capacity of the existing four-lane viaduct over the park while leaving that structure in service for the next decade or so.
But a one-way tunnel would "get us all going" for now, linking up with $195 million of improvements to the central motorway junction, of which the completion of the first $55 million stage will be marked by Transport Minister Pete Hodgson at a ceremony tomorrow.
www.nzherald.co.nz /index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=9002013   (810 words)

  
 Mt Victoria
Mount Victoria a.k.a Mt Vic is a prominent hill (height 196 metres) to the east of the centre of Wellington.
The suburb of Mount Victoria is a mixture of residential and commercial activity on the western flank of the ridge above the southern end of the Wellington Central Business District.
A road tunnel, the Mount Victoria Tunnel, runs beneath the ridge, connecting the central city with Wellington International Airport, Evans Bay and the Miramar Peninsula.
www.virtualoceania.net /newzealand/photos/cities/wellington/mtvictoria   (203 words)

  
 SINE Search Results
Portrait photograph of the bricked up air raid shelter entrance leading from the Victoria Tunnel to Crawhall Road, of particular note is the presence of a wooden frame to hold a flout curtain, and the handrail disappearing through the bricked up section on the right hand side.
Portrait photograph of the bricked up air raid shelter entrance leading from the Victoria Tunnel to Crawhall Road, of particular note is the presence of a wooden frame to hold a flout curtain, and the handrail and steps disappearing through the bricked up section on the right hand side.
Landscape photograph of a doorway within the air raid shelter entrance leading from the Victoria Tunnel to Crawhall Road, of particular note is the presence of a wooden frame to hold a flout curtain.
sine.ncl.ac.uk /retrieve_results.asp?si=869   (565 words)

  
 Victoria's Statue
In late 1905 or early 1906 Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught visited Aden as part of a tour of units stationed in India, and Aden then was part of the Bombay Presidency.
The Duke’s chief ceremonial duty in Aden was to unveil the statue of Queen Victoria which had been erected in the Prince of Wales Crescent at Tawahi (Steamer Point).
The Ambassador and staff and the Deputy Governor of Aden and officials were present at the ceremony to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen.
adenairways.com /victoria.htm   (339 words)

  
 SINE Project, Structure Details for Victoria Tunnel: Southern Section
The tunnel was cut through clay and is constructed using base courses of stone upon which an inverted brick arch was built.
The loaded wagons descended the incline of the tunnel under their own weight and were drawn back to the colliery by a wire rope attached to a stationary engine.
During the Second World War the tunnel was converted for use as an air raid shelter with wooden benches and bunks installed, as well as chemical toilets, anti-blast baffles, lime washed walls and a number of new entrances.
sine.ncl.ac.uk /view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=869   (349 words)

  
 Victoria Johnson Theraputic Massage, Seattle, Ravenna, U-District
Victoria Johnson is a licensed massage therapist who began her practice in 1997.
The focus of her practice is injury treatment (including automobile accidents and on-the-job injuries), chronic pain, and pregnancy massage.
Victoria thinks of herself as part of your health care team, and works with other health care professionals to ensure that you receive the appropriate care for your condition.
www.victoriamassageseattle.com   (141 words)

  
 Vic | The Australian
WIDESPREAD rain that may help to ease Victoria's bushfire crisis caused flash flooding in the state's parched northwest and might further damage fruit crops already battered by severe spring frost.
THE woman who accuses Aboriginal leader Geoff Clark of leading two pack rapes against her got into a car with some of her attackers a fortnight after the first alleged assault.
VICTORIA agreed to quietly dump a scheme to free up an extra 300 megawatts of emergency power that would have significantly reduced the severity of the shock flouts that caused havoc throughout the state this week.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /index/0,,5006785,00.html   (456 words)

  
 A Chunnel for the "Great Wet Ditch" -- Monday, Sep. 24, 1973 -- Page 1 -- TIME
Queen Victoria promised De Gamond the blessing of "all the ladies of England" if he could carry it off, but the whole thing was quashed by suspicions that Napoleon III might have in mind a cross-Channel invasion.
Detractors of the tunnel complain that the government has rushed ahead so quickly with the project that it has not given due consideration to alternatives, as, for example, bigger and better Hovercraft.
While the tunnel may well be the best possible way to maintain Britain's thrust into Europe, it will have its victims.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,907937,00.html   (668 words)

  
 VOLCAN Compañía Minera S.A.A.
During the past few months, nine long exploration holes have been drilled into the San Cristobal vein system as part of an ongoing strategic drilling programme aimed at verifying the persistence in depth of the principal veins and orebodies in the Yauli area.
With plans to continue testing the vein system down to 200m below Tunnel Victoria this year, Volcan expect resources to be increased accordingly.
Within the framework of its strategic drilling programme, Volcan is currently testing the 423 orebody at a depth of 100m below Tunnel Victoria with a long borehole.
www.volcan.com.pe /oper/yauliu3b.html   (1127 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | Historic tunnel to get makeover
An historic tunnel on Tyneside is to be restored and opened to the public with the help of a £205,500 grant.
The HLF award will be used to repair the tunnel, which is in danger of collapsing, and to build a visitors' centre.
HLF regional manager, Dr Keith Bartlett, said: "We are used to seeing old buildings being given new uses, but the Victoria Tunnel is an example of a piece of heritage that has already served the people of Newcastle in important ways over the years.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/tyne/6191001.stm   (307 words)

  
 Victoria Viaduct Widening - Auckland Motorways
The Victoria Viaduct was constructed during the early 1960's to link the Southern Motorway to the Auckland Harbour Bridge, instead of traveling down Nelson Street and along Fanshawe Street to the St Mary's Bay section.
Spaghetti Junction Upgrade: To the South of the Victoria Viaduct is the Central Motorway Junction, which is nearing completion of its upgrade.
The chosen option is a partial tunnel, with the existing Victoria Viaduct being upgraded and a northbound tunnel built next to it.
www.aucklandmotorways.co.nz /victoriaviaduct.html   (1251 words)

  
 Victoria Livengood- The Official Web Site of the Dixie Diva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
“Victoria Livengood sang Dalila, impressing the listener with varied tonal quality allied to deep imagination, shaping her line with seductive overtones that drove the drama.
“Thomasville native and Met star mezzo-soprano Victoria Livengood, familiar to Triangle audiences for her steamy portrayal of Carmen in 2001, was in top form as she took on the role of yet another sexual predator.
“Victoria Livengood is a convincing Cristina of powerful presence and abundant resources who lavishly succeeded from the first moment as the apparition without ever losing her ghost like condition to a fascinating result.
www.victorialivengood.com /reviewquotes.htm   (2814 words)

  
 Search for Giant Squid: 23 February 1999
One of the more interesting customs that I have come to observe here in Wellington is the behavior of drivers as they make their way through the Victoria tunnel.
Many years ago, some civil engineer must have decided that it was going to be easier to bore an enormous hole directly through one of the hills in Wellington and run a road through it, rather than to try and figure out a way to make the road go over it.
As we emerged from the Victoria tunnel again, I got to thinking about the fact that here we were, driving through the streets of downtown Wellington with one of the most elusive creatures on the face of the earth, slowly defrosting the in boot (trunk) of Steve's white Toyota Corolla.
seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov /OCEAN_PLANET/SQUID/journal.23Feb1999.html   (1103 words)

  
 Forgotten Futures 6 Adventure 1 - Steam Pirates
The Channel Tunnel is one of the busiest sections of railway in the world, and it is vital to ensure efficient and safe movement of the trains.
The Tunnel was originally conceived as a simple railway link between Dover and Calais, but military considerations, the need for ventilation, and the commercial possibilities of a new mid-Channel island have made it somewhat more complicated.
The bridges are the primary defence against the Tunnel's use in an invasion; they are mined (with electrical detonators) and overlooked by coastal defence forts with guns permanently targeted upon bridge and island.
www.forgottenfutures.com /game/ff6/advent61.htm   (21435 words)

  
 Black Shadows of the Past: The Discovery
Victoria covered her mouth with her paw to keep from laughing.
She had found yet another dead rat lying in the tunnel.
Once Mistoffelees was about halfway down the tunnel, he saw the faint outlines of four cats.
www.angelfire.com /sk/SaphandJeqsCats/shadows.html   (1828 words)

  
 Crochet History - Victorian & Edwradian Crochet - Irish Crochet
At that time it was thought that it gave the lines of the hand a more feminine and graceful look.
Now they are discovering that if you hold your hook in the palm of the hand it cuts down on carpal tunnel problems.
Did you know that if the piece being crocheted was not worked in the round in other words worked from row to row, that at the end of each row the thread was broken and retied to the beginning of the row?
www.victoriancrochet.com /history.tpl   (617 words)

  
 Victoria Upright MRI - The Only True Open MRI in Victoria, Texas
The Victoria Upright™ MRI, also known as the Stand-Up MRI, is the most patient-friendly MRI scanner in Victoria.
Because of Victoria Upright™ MRI's unique magnet configuration, there is nothing in front of the patient's face or directly overhead to create a "closed-in" feeling.
In fact, Victoria Upright MRI routinely scans patients that were unable to tolerate other MRI scanners or who simply couldn't fit into them.
www.victoriamri.com   (214 words)

  
 Waterloo Tunnel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Waterloo Tunnel in Liverpool, England is a former railway tunnel, 862 metres long, which opened in 1849.
One end is at Edge Hill station, the other end opens into a short cutting which connects to the Victoria Tunnel, which leads to the River Mersey.
The tunnel closed on 19 November 1972, however a single set of rails still enters the tunnel, and at least on 15 March 2005 the rails where still shiny from recent use.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Waterloo_Tunnel   (140 words)

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