Example sentences of "line from [noun prp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE FIRST LAURA ASHLEY ARTICULATED LORRY , WITH ITS BOLD SIXTIES LETTERING , WOULD RUMBLE DOWN THE NARROW LINES FROM CARNO TO LONDON ONLY TO BE ATTACKED BY MARAUDING CUSTOMERS WAITING FOR THEIR FAVOURITE STYLES TO ARRIVE . |
| 2 | The two routes showing alternative ways of taking the power lines from Wilton to Picton . |
| 3 | The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter . |
| 4 | The Poles constructed 200 kilometres of dockside railway and a new line from Gdynia to Bydgoszcz that avoided use ( and payment ) of the old German railway . |
| 5 | In 1883 the company 's successor the Eastern and Midlands Railway , laid a further line from Melton to North Walsham and also established Melton as their engineering headquarters . |
| 6 | The bridge carried the rattling old carriages of the District Line from Gunnersbury to Kew Gardens . |
| 7 | Stung by the proposed take-over by Blackpool of the Tramroad Company line , the Railway Company whose station was at Thornton , proposed to build a branch line from Thornton to Cleveleys . |
| 8 | While the citizens of Amiens demonstrated in favour of the High Speed Line from Paris to the Channel Tunnel serving their city , the rural stockbrokers of Kent revolted against the idea of an equivalent new railway from the tunnel to London . |
| 9 | The French , along the whole line from Paris to Verdun , must turn and counter-attack ; and Galliéni needed also the active cooperation of the BEF . |
| 10 | A special new Wine and Dine train is being assembled , as an addition to our stock in order to provide luxury dinners on the spectacular coastal line from Paignton to Kingswear . |
| 11 | In 1936 it was decided to electrify the severely graded cross-Pennine main line from Sheffield to Manchester and he was responsible for the design of electric locomotives for this service . |
| 12 | But the government proved it was no pushover when ruling that the Far North line from Inverness to Wick/Thurso could not share the new road bridge over the Dornoch Firth . |
| 13 | Other main railway lines which he surveyed and supervised included Inverness to Keith ( 1853–8 ) , Inverness to Wick and Thurso ( 1859–74 ) which , because of exceptional difficulties , was not completed until after his retirement in 1867 , and the Skye line from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh ( 1864–70 ) . |
| 14 | Though the whole line from London to Langley Mill never finally came under one ownership , by 1897 this had become possible by the negotiation of options to purchase the remaining sections north of Leicester . |
| 15 | The lines — all on Network SouthEast — include the so-called Misery line from London to Tilbury and Southend . |
| 16 | The pre-privatisation experiment is due to begin next year , with Virgin running refurbished IC125 diesel-hauled trains ( all that BR can make available ) under the wires of the newly-electrified east coast main line from London to Edinburgh . |
| 17 | Of greater lasting significance , however , was the construction in 1839 of the Eastern Counties railway line from London to Norwich via Stratford , Colchester and Ipswich . |
| 18 | The opening of the Great Northern Railway with a direct line from London to the Nottingham , Derby and Yorkshire coalfields brought this situation to an end and gravely damaged the bargaining power of the north-east colliers and seamen . |
| 19 | After many years of indecision , in December 1981 BR obtained approval for the electrification of the main line from Colchester to Ipswich and Norwich and also the Harwich branch . |
| 20 | National Transcommunications Ltd , the buyout of the Independent Broadcasting Authority 's engineering and transmitters arm , is to build a cable link between London and Birmingham capable of carrying television and telephone services and has signed a 10-year contract in which the UK 's largest cable television operator , Birmingham Cable Ltd , is to take up the initial capacity ; the line from Birmingham to United Artists ' London South in Croydon will link the two cable-franchise areas , according to the Daily Telegraph . |
| 21 | Soon after this was complete a spur line from Stratford to wharves at Bow Creek , extended to North Woolwich , was added . |
| 22 | As the Habsburgs advanced step by step , with occasional setbacks , the Turks were gradually pushed back south of the Sava and Danube , and the military frontier was re-established along the full length of the line from Transylvania to the Adriatic . |
| 23 | Many of those who rode along the line from Stockton to Darlington on that day ‘ did not the night before sleep a wink … |
| 24 | Its beginnings are to be found in the Llanelly Dock & Railway Company , one of the earliest Welsh railways , which obtained powers in 1835 to build a line from Llanelli to Llandeilo to serve various collieries and the rich agricultural land in the Towy Valley . |
| 25 | when it was proposed to apply for a bill to make a line from Wolverhampton to Montgomery , and afterwards to abandon the latter part of the line , no meeting was called to ascertain the views of the district on the proposed abandonemtn of the part between Lydham Heath and Montgomery . |
| 26 | Named Sir Berkeley , the loco was built in 1891 by Manning Wardle for Logan & Hemingway , contractors for the construction of the main line from Manchester to Marylebone Station in London . |
| 27 | With the formation of the East Lincolnshire Railway Company in 1848 , Louth became an important junction , for in 1874 , together with other branch lines , it became like the hub of a wheel , with its main line from Grimsby to Boston , Spalding and Peterborough running north and south , the branch going south-east to Sutton on Sea , Mablethorpe and Skegness , and the Louth-Bardney branch going west through the Lincolnshire Wolds towards Bardney and Lincoln . |
| 28 | Southern Pacific ran a spur line from Monterey to a Delmonte Hotel station one mile from the actual hotel . |
| 29 | The future of the Cotswold line from Oxford to Worcester , has been in some doubt following a leaked BR report which revealed that it was to have no further investment , despite its pre-war signalling and rustic stations . |
| 30 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |