Showing posts with label Railway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Railway. Show all posts
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Smallest Railway

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is a 1 ft 3 in (381 mm) gauge light railway in Kent, England. The 13+1⁄2 miles (22 km) line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to Dungeness nuclear power station and Dungeness lighthouse.
Constructed during the 1920s and opened on 16 July 1927, the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway was the dream of millionaire racing drivers Captain J.E.P. Howey and Count Louis Zborowski. Zborowski was killed in a motor racing accident at Monza before the Romney Marsh site was chosen, and Howey continued the project alone.
From 1926 to 1978, the RH&DR held the title of the "Smallest public railway in the world" (in terms of track gauge). The title was lost to the 12 1⁄4 in (311 mm) gauge Réseau Guerlédan in France in 1978 and regained from 1979, when the Réseau Guerlédan closed, until 1982, when the 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway opened.
The railway was featured in an episode of the BBC series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
























Monday, February 28, 2011
The mass prayer in bangladesh
The Mass Prayer in Bangladesh
Millions of Muslims seeking peace and the revival of Islam's tenets joined a
mass prayer recently to wrap up an annual three-day Islamic congregation
outside the Bangladeshi capital on the sandy bank of the River Turag.
The gathering, held each year since 1966, is among the world's largest religious gatherings. It shuns politics.















Millions of Muslims seeking peace and the revival of Islam's tenets joined a
mass prayer recently to wrap up an annual three-day Islamic congregation
outside the Bangladeshi capital on the sandy bank of the River Turag.
The gathering, held each year since 1966, is among the world's largest religious gatherings. It shuns politics.
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