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| | Encyclopedia: 1912 Brisbane General Strike |
 | | Victorian branch union banner The Australian Rail Tram and Bus Industry Union (RTBU), formerly known as the Public Transport Union or PTU, was formed on March 1, 1993, through an historic amalgamation of the Australian Railways Union, the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, the Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees Association... | | | The 1912 Brisbane General Strike in Queensland, Australia, began when members of the Australian Tramway Employees Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work on 18 January 1912. | | | Motto: Audax at Fidelis (Bold but Faithful) Nickname: Sunshine State/Smart State Other Australian states and territories Capital Brisbane Government Governor Premier Const. |
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| | Internet Resource Guide: Transport Law Resources |
| | Formerly, the National Ropad Transport Commission (NRTC), the NTC was established in 2004 to promote uniform regulatory aspects of land transport (road and rail) networks | | | Review of the Navigation Act 1912: final report, 2000 (Dept of Transport and Regional Services, and Australian Maritime Safety Authority) | | | Transport Safety Investigation Bill 2002: Report and Submissions (Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee) |
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| | Internet Resource Guide: Transport Law Resources |
| | Formerly, the National Ropad Transport Commission (NRTC), the NTC was established in 2004 to promote uniform regulatory aspects of land transport (road and rail) networks | | | Review of the Navigation Act 1912: final report, 2000 (Dept of Transport and Regional Services, and Australian Maritime Safety Authority) | | | Transport Safety Investigation Bill 2002: Report and Submissions (Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee) |
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| | RailServe.com Links: Tourist Railroads Railway Museums & Train Excursions |
| | Tasmanian Transport Museum - Museum exhibits railway locomotives, railmotors, carriages and wagons, trams, trolley buses, motor buses, stationary steam engines, and many other items of historical interest; Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | | | Kitts Scenic Railway - Narrow gauge railway built between 1912 and 1926 to deliver sugar cane from the fields to the sugar mill in the capital city of Basseterre, now offers a Caribbean tour around the island of St. Kitts in the two-island Federation of St. Christopher and Nevis | | | Railway Correspondence and Travel Society - Bringing together more than 3300 members all interested in railway operation past, present, and future; UK |
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| | Nevertheless, the railways continued to run; indeed, they were the only reasonably practical form of transport available to the vast majority of the impoverished people. | | | Journal of Transport History, The: Japanese Shinkansen: Catalyst for the renaissance of rail, The | | | Japanese Shinkansen: Catalyst for the renaissance of rail, The |
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| | Railways In China Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ GreatArtworks.com |
| | An historical overview of rail transport in mainland China will be given in this article, including the Qing Dynasty (before 1912) and the Republic of China (1912 to 1949) eras, and present time under the People's Republic of China (1949 onwards). | | | Rail transport in the People's Republic of China | | | The construction of the railway is part of the China Western Development strategy, an attempt to develop the western provinces of China, which are much less developed than eastern China. |
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| | Journal of Transport History, The: Japanese Shinkansen: Catalyst for the renaissance of rail, The |
| | Nevertheless, the railways continued to run; indeed, they were the only reasonably practical form of transport available to the vast majority of the impoverished people. | | | Journal of Transport History, The: Japanese Shinkansen: Catalyst for the renaissance of rail, The | | | Japanese Shinkansen: Catalyst for the renaissance of rail, The |
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| | Journal of Transport History, The: Japanese Shinkansen: Catalyst for the renaissance of rail, The |
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| | RailServe.com Links: Tourist Railroads Railway Museums & Train Excursions |
| | Kitts Scenic Railway - Narrow gauge railway built between 1912 and 1926 to deliver sugar cane from the fields to the sugar mill in the capital city of Basseterre, now offers a Caribbean tour around the island of St. Kitts in the two-island Federation of St. Christopher and Nevis | | | Railway Correspondence and Travel Society - Bringing together more than 3300 members all interested in railway operation  past, present, and future; UK | | | Hague Public Transport Museum - The history of the public transport in Hague and its surroundings; Netherlands |
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| | Rail & Tramways |
| | Compiled for the Victorian Railways Commissioners and Historical Society of Victoria, Published Melbourne Acting Government Printer 1918 or. | | | London: Light Railway Transport League 1960 1st ed. | | | New South Wales Rail Transport Museum 1998 or.cl. d/w. |
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| | Locomotives |
| | Moseley Railway Trust 20hp Bent Frame Tractors at the Ffestiniog Railway | | | One of the founders of the Motor Rail and Tramcar Company, Mr T. Abbott, had visited Germany in about 1911 and was alarmed at the stockpiles of light railway equipment for army use, including internal combustion locomotives. | | | These locomotives were a standard design of McEwan Pratt Ltd, E. Baguley Ltd having taken over this firm in 1912 kept the name throughout the war period. |
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| | Liverpool - encyclopedia article about Liverpool. |
| | Liverpool once possessed a very integrated transport system, until the deregulation of bus and rail services, and only now have there been plans to build a light rail system, Merseytram, the first since the city's tram system was dismantled in the 1950s. | | | Bridget's alleged memoirs, which surfaced in the 1970s, said that Adolf stayed with them in 1912-1913, though this is much disputed and many believe the memoirs to be a forgery. | | | Liverpool John Moores University is one of the polytechnics given university status in 1992 and is named after the owner of the Littlewoods retail group. |
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| | Liverpool - encyclopedia article about Liverpool. |
| | Liverpool once possessed a very integrated transport system, until the deregulation of bus and rail services, and only now have there been plans to build a light rail system, Merseytram, the first since the city's tram system was dismantled in the 1950s. | | | Bridget's alleged memoirs, which surfaced in the 1970s, said that Adolf stayed with them in 1912-1913, though this is much disputed and many believe the memoirs to be a forgery. | | | Liverpool John Moores University is one of the polytechnics given university status in 1992 and is named after the owner of the Littlewoods retail group. |
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| | 1921 |
| | A national miners’ strike in 1920 ended in compromise but strike action against wage cuts and local pay bargaining in 1921 failed and was marked, on “Black Friday”, by the collapse of the Triple Alliance (of miners’, transport workers’ and rail unions) and its promise of joint industrial action. | | | He was a founder of the Lanarkshire Miners’ Association and was elected secretary of the Scottish Miners’ Federation in 1894 and president of the Miners’ Federation of Great Britain in 1912. | | | Miners’ conditions improved during the War and immediate post-war period when the mines were taken under government control and demand for coal was high but an economic slump from 1920 and the return of the mines to private ownership (despite an apparent promise to retain public control) created bitter industrial conflict. |
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| | Herald of Free Enterprise Car Ferry Disaster |
| | The death toll was the worst for a British vessel in peacetime since the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. | | | These changes were similar to trends in other transport sectors, notably the airline industry. | | | Competition on cross-channel ferry services was influenced by the British governments July 1984 privatisation of Sealink UK Ltd, previously a subsidiary of government-owned British Rail. |
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| | This Is Local London |
| | Other plans include a piazza and riverside walk along the river Wandle, a new bus lane and improvements to bus and rail routes to encourage residents to use public transport. | | | Drivers regularly have to face lengthy queues near the derelict site which was home to the Dons from 1912 until 1991 and was subsequently sold by then chairman Sam Hammam, leaving the club effectively homeless until its deeply unpopular move to Milton Keynes last month. | | | One of Wimbledons most congested areas Plough Lane could be brought to a virtual standstill by plans for 570 flats at the spiritual home of Wimbledon Football Club. |
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| | Lt. Commander Riorhdan arranged with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to transport the vessel in sections by rail to Emmetsburg, where she was then reassembled and refloated in Five Island Lake, to serve as a floating memorial and museum. | | | The ship's guns only fired once in anger and that was at Shanghai in 1912. | | | She was built from 1897 to 1899, and although launched too late to take part in the naval battles of the Spanish-American War, it did play a major role in later events as part of the U.S. Navy's Asiatic squadron, primarily the Boxer Rebellion and relief of the besieged foreign legations in Peking in 1900. |
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| | 1841: Information From Answers.com |
| | Englewood, New Jersey, January 4, 1912] conducts a study of volcanoes and earthquakes that leads him to the correct conclusion that the continents are made from lighter rock than the oceans. | | | Canada - Rail transport - Science - South Africa - Sport | | | 1838 1839 1840- 1841- 1842 1843 1844 |
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| | Encyclopedia: August-24 |
| | 1910 in topic: Arts Architecture- Art- Film- Literature- Music- Television Science and technology Aviation- Rail transport- Radio- Science Other topics Australia- Canada- Ireland- South Africa- Sport Births- Deaths Lists of leaders: State leaders - Religious leaders 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). | | | Hanna Reitsch in the Fa 61 Hanna Reitsch (March 29, 1912 - August 24, 1979) was a famous World War II German test pilot, and a favourite of the upper echelon of the Nazi party. | | | Louis Prima and Keely Smith singing for the radio in the 1950s Louis Prima (December 7, 1910- August 24, 1978) was an Italian-American entertainer, singer, actor, and trumpeter born in New Orleans. |
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