Example sentences of "[noun] station on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an unexplained delay of five or ten minutes — perhaps while the searchlight crews came back to their action stations on the great lights , including the five-foot beam on the west bank a mile or so downstream from the port , and the light commanding the river from the end of the Old Mole . |
| 2 | Aviemore Cottage , built around 1886 , was demolished five years ago to make way for a block of flats — some of which have never been sold — while Aviemore House , a posting station on the old stagecoach route from Inverness , was pulled down by a property consortium in the 1960s . |
| 3 | From here , instead of returning by the same route , it is possible to descend the mountain 's opposite side by taking the other cog-wheel railway from the Rigi Kulm to Arth , the bottom station near the Arth-Goldau junction station on the Swiss Federal Railway main line from Luzern , Basel , Zurich and the Gotthard line . |
| 4 | Within 5km ( 3 miles ) on the right hand side is the village of Hasle , a small junction station on the local railway system . |
| 5 | After the purchase of the Sandringham Estate in 1862 by the Prince of Wales , Wolferton Station on the Great Eastern Railway became a royal station . |
| 6 | A Tour Around the Old Pubs and Hotels of Darlington : ‘ I came to Bank Top Station on the finest Locomotive the Caledonian had in stock . |
| 7 | If you want to participate in their fun a vintage bus service operates from Cholsey Station on the main line to Wallingford where steam Santa Specials are operating . |
| 8 | The best motorway cuppa can be found at a service station on the M-one . |
| 9 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 10 | The wounded who seemed to have a chance of recovery were left on the jeeps and were sped off down through the village to the dressing stations on the other side of the River Orne . |
| 11 | Dad ran a garage and petrol station on the main road through Strathspeld village and Mum had a wee gift and coffee shop ; Dad had been worried after the Six-Day War when they 'd introduced the fifty-miles-an-hour speed limit and even issued fuel-rationing books , but that had n't lasted very long and , even though petrol cost more nowadays , people were still travelling and using cars . |
| 12 | Just outside Abermule Station on the 26th January 1921 , this train met another head-on , resulting in the deaths of fourteen passengers including Lord Herbert Vane Tempest and Capt. Harold Owen , both directors of the Cambrian Railway and in whose company Haydn Jones should have been in the tea car that morning , had he not been in bed with a chill ! |
| 13 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 14 | However , unlike the working-class area , the shopping centre is also a transport centre : there is a main line station on the national rail network and two underground lines connect it with the rest of London . |
| 15 | The fact that Omsk railway station on the less-frequented eastern escape route was sometimes deluged with up to 20,000 refugees a day gives some idea of the scale of migration . |
| 16 | ON January 8 , 1875 , young James Springhall bade a tearful farewell to his parents and friends at Middlesbrough railway station on the first leg of an epic journey . |
| 17 | Williamson , 22 , punched a Middlesbrough fan as the two sets of supporters clashed at York Railway Station on the last day of the season . |
| 18 | In the event , the more fateful decision was not the proposal of a route within the walled city but making the starting point for the march the railway station on the Protestant Waterside . |
| 19 | The last thing Britain was prepared to entertain was insecurity of relay stations on the Chinese mainland . |
| 20 | As the benefits of large-scale integrated operation of power stations on the National Grid increased , however , the threat of such competition receded ; and the share of self-generation , already down to 31 per cent on nationalisation , had been further reduced to 22 per cent ten years later . |