Sentence examples for defunct railway from inspiring English sources

The road arcs inland through increasingly mountainous terrain, trees crowding the camber, the ghost of a defunct railway line lying to one side.

There was even a proposal, by the architect Will Alsop, to move out and rehouse the ICA on the disused pillars of the defunct railway bridge at Blackfriars.

Sitting in the club's glassed-in atrium above the defunct railway track, Blestel described the gradual northeastward creep of Paris night life from the now passé strips in the Bastille and the 11th Arrondissement's Rue Oberkampf.

They are a series of narrow spaces along a defunct railway track heading east out of Paris where residents have planted flowers, fruit trees, vegetables and herbs in pots.

Ms. Cachin was well known as a curator and an art historian specializing in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism when, in 1978, she was named curator of a new museum dedicated to 19th-century art to be housed in a defunct railway station, the Gare d'Orsay.

Built on a defunct railway that runs 30 feet above Manhattan between 10th and 11th Avenues, the High Line stands above parts of the city that for generations of gay people, particularly gay men, were equal parts playground (the Roxy nightclub, the Anvil bar) and sanctuary (Florent restaurant, Christopher Street).

A now-defunct railway leads over a viaduct to an abandoned pit-head.

The weak safety culture of a now-defunct railway company and poor government oversight contributed to an oil train explosion that killed 47 people in Quebec in 2013, Canadian authorities have announced in their report on the disaster.

Social media posts showed workers attempting to bury a derailed train car before a full search and rescue operation had been completed, and the incident turned into a major embarrassment for the Chinese government and the now-defunct Railway Bureau.

MD 704 follows the abandoned right of way of the defunct WB&A Railway, an interurban railroad that included a north south line between Washington and Baltimore and a branch to Annapolis from Naval Academy Junction in Odenton.

HIGH LINE FESTIVAL David Bowie curates the first annual festival to benefit efforts to turn the defunct elevated railway on Manhattan's West Side into a park.