Sentence examples for frontier station from inspiring English sources

SNIPE GROUNDS 29 I was Executive Engineer for five years at Tongho, our then frontier station.

Kangerlussuaq (population 500), or as the Yanks prefer to call it, Kanger, still feels like a frontier station.

A frontier station opposite Forbach, France, it lies on the Saar River at the mouth of the Sulz River.

The site of a Roman frontier station, the city developed around the Benedictine abbey of St. Magnus (founded 628) and was chartered about 1294.

The town was once a Buddhist centre; now, as in earlier days, it serves as a frontier station for local tribal areas.

At the frontier station at Cheb, inside the Iron Curtain, Czech soldiers with bayonets fixed on their rifles had run out the station to guard the doors of every car.

During the next 18 years changing stations almost every year Reed was on garrison duty, often at frontier stations.

Besides the event of war with Burma, moveable columns would operate from th frontier stations to both flanks.

Out of 160,000 police officers in Punjab, fewer than 60,000 are posted in rural areas, leaving frontier stations in districts virtually unprotected, police officials said.

The Train Bleu no longer runs to Menton; the tiny excitement gripping one when passing from French Menton to Italian Ventimiglia, two famous and historic frontier stations, is now gone.

It lies in the Lower Ganges-Yamuna Doab on the Ganges (Ganga) River, about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Lucknow Kanpur was only a village when it and the surrounding territory were acquired in 1801 by the British, who made it one of their frontier stations.