Sentence examples for open for freight from inspiring English sources
The Hong Kong border with mainland China was heavily guarded and sometimes closed during Mao's rule of China, but the railroad bridge at the border, over the concrete-channeled waters of the Shenzhen River, remained open for freight and was Hong Kong's lifeline for food imports.
The line remained open for freight until 1983, but the track was lifted in 1985.
On 3 September 1966 the GCR line from Aylesbury to Rugby was abandoned, leaving only the stretch from Aylesbury to Calvert, running through the now-closed Quainton Road, open for freight trains.
Shepton Mallet (High Street) closed with the withdrawal of passenger services on the Yatton to Witham line in 1963, though part of the former East Somerset line remains open for freight and as a heritage railway.
The line opened for freight as far as Llangefni on 16 December 1864.
A deviation replacing Nanny's Mayor's Incline and a curve that allowed trains from Crook direct access to Rowley opened for freight on 23 May 1859 and for passenger traffic on 4 July 1859.
There is local support for the line to be electrified, as an extension of the planned electrification of the London to Bristol route, and the level of service would be improved if proposals for the re-instatement of passenger services on the nearby Portishead Branch Line, which was re-opened for freight in 2001, are successful.
The coveted increase in railway share of transport demand for the next decades and the attempt to open up the rail market (for freight, international and recently also local services) strengthen the attention to capacity usage of the system.
The House favors a provision that would let another federal agency, the Surface Transportation Board, step in to keep the Northeast Corridor open for commuter operations and freight traffic if Amtrak were to shut down.
Open image in new window Fig. 14 Cumulative evaluation of energy dissipation for vehicle movement and for freight movement (MJ/t km) Open image in new window Fig. 15 Evaluation of energy dissipation for vehicle movement and for freight movement.
We need to highlight the role of the river for freight and passenger transport and open it up to recreation, assuming we are able to keep it as clean as it deserves to be.
