The Gare du Nord, the great cast-iron train station at the northern end of Paris, has always been a tense place — tendu, as the French say.
But in cities where land was more liberally gifted to the railway companies — mainly in Europe and Asia, for some reason — immense glass-and-iron train sheds were constructed, and the people, passengers and visitors alike, commingled with the trains they sheltered.
And nearly obscured behind an Everest of heating ducts is the surviving cast-iron train indicator for Track 1. Outside the baggage area, in the public corridor paralleling the modern row of Amtrak ticket windows, an impromptu gallery of historic photographs has been affixed to the pillars.
The curved wrought-iron train shed over the new through platforms was 500 feet long on the platform wall.
We wait in a lay-by while a 168-wagon-long iron ore train pulls slowly northwards, empty after delivering its load to Sept-Îles.
He also needs plenty of iron for training at Colorado altitudes.
Two parallel cast-iron PATH train tunnels, 16 feet in diameter and dating back to Theodore Roosevelt's era, were then exposed.
As for Ruskin's own writings, suggest airily that they influenced the early Labour movement more than Marx (he hated capitalism - Scotland On Sunday); the Green movement (he hated pollution, anything made from iron, and trains - Financial Times); Wilde; Gandhi; and Proust (Independent).
Owned by the private mining company Northern Iron, the single-track railway is solely used to haul 20 daily iron ore trains from Bjørnevatn Mine to the port at Kirkenes.
