Herbesthal Railway Station [SEP] date of official opening
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Herbesthal railway station


line to Eupen was opened, on 1 March 1864: Herbesthal station was extended to accommodate the new service. The little rail depot at the station probably also dates from this period. By now a post office had been built at the station, relocated in 1855 from Henri-Chapelle on instructions from the regional head post office at Aachen. At Herbesthal this quickly became one of Europe's busiest mail depots. In 1890 the postal facilities were relocated to a new purposes built post office building beside the station, which would be
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Herbesthal railway station was the Prussian/German frontier station on the main railway from Germany into Belgium between 1843 and 1920. It opened to rail traffic on 15 October 1843, and was thereby the oldest railway station frontier crossing in the world. It lost its border status on 10 January 1920, however, as a result of changes mandated in the Treaty of Versailles, which left Herbesthal more than 10 km (6 miles) inside Belgium. The station reached its maximum extent following a major redevelopment in 1889. This left it
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also, then, on the frontier, but this idea had to be rejected for topographical reasons. The company therefore undertook to build a rail link from the proposed mainline to Eupen. The Rhine Railway Company agreed with the Belgian National Railway Company to construct a joint frontier facility at Herbesthal where necessary customs clearance could be undertaken by officials from both countries. Herbesthal thereby became noteworthy as Europe's first international frontier railway station. The line from Cologne as far as Aachen was inaugurated in 1841, but construction progressed more slowly through the
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intended to operate with sufficient power to manage the slope. Around this time the station at Herbesthal was expanded to provide space for locomotives to be switched so that during the ensuing decades Prussian locomotives provided the traction in Prussia and Belgian locomotives in Belgium. A few years later Welkenraedt station was built on the Belgian side of the frontier. Between the two stations there were less than of open track, however: locomotive changes and customs/frontier administration continued to be focused on Herbesthal. Twenty years after Herbesthal station, the promised branch
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locomotive used in Belgium. Herbesthal was again one of the most important frontier stations in western Europe. Not only the Northern Express, but also the were now making the switch between German and Belgian locomotives at Herbesthal. When the Trans Europ Express (TEE) network was set up in 1957, Herbesthal was where Belgian TEE train staff took over the railcars for the Belgian sections. Towards the end of the 1950s both the West German state railways (DB) and the Belgian state railways (SNCB) started planning for electrification.
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taken over by the Belgian postal administration in 1920. During the 1920s up to 1,000 mail bags were processed here daily, and it was only after the introduction of so-called mobile sorting offices, using dedicated rail-cars, that the postal facilities at Herbesthal station were removed. Despite bitter opposition from company president Gustav von Mevissen, the Rhine Railway Company was nationalised in 1880. Company assets, including the station at Herbesthal, were taken over by the Royal Railway Directorate of "Cöln" (Rhine Leftbank Operations) (
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transported into Belgium. Nevertheless, until 1940 it continued to operate as the frontier station on the mainline, with the difference that now the customs and passport officials were working on the Belgian side of the frontier for the Belgian government. Directly following the war there were relatively few "stopping trains" carrying passengers beyond Herbesthal into Germany using the new German frontier control station near the hamlets at and . However, passenger traffic slowly recovered through the 1920s. The and the Northern Express returned and were joined in 1929 by a third luxury
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received a large new passenger building to cope with growth in passenger numbers. There were new facilities for police, customs and frontier officials and separate waiting rooms for each passenger class. There was also a so-called "Prince's Waiting Room" reflecting the importance of international rail travel generally, and of the frontier station more specifically, even for monarchs and their extended families. England's Queen Victoria undertook her first rail journey via the Herbesthal frontier station in 1845, accompanied by her consort. Thirteen years later, in early
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of German occupation Hebesthal temporarily recovered its status as the German frontier station. After 1945 it was again the SNCB ("National Railway Company of Belgium") using Herbesthal as their frontier station. In contrast to the position before the war, there were now no local trains operating to Aachen. Locomotive switching between Belgian and German locomotives returned to Hebesthal. It was not till 1947 that, initially only for a small number of trains, operators reverted to switching locomotives at Aachen, and Herbesthal retained its importance as the principal locomotive
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looking ever more unnecessary. The electrification project was completed on the line and the electrified traction system commissioned on 22 May 1966. Herbesthal station was formally closed on 7 August 1966. By this time the station's rail depot had been largely closed. A few sidings which had comprised the western section of the Herbesthal depot were reassigned to the adjacent station at Welkenraedt. There would have been some sort of locomotive storage facility at Herbesthal from the start, but the locomotive depot was greatly expanded following the takeover by what became the Prussian
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hills to the west of Aachen, above all because of the time needed to build the , the long and the long Hammer Rail Viaduct over the Geul River south of . However, on 15 October 1843 the line was opened from Aachen to Herbesthal, and two days later from Herbesthal to Verviers. Verviers had had a rail link to Liege since July. The entire length of line from Aachen to Liege entered into service on 24 October 1843, and quickly became part of one of the most important international rail routes in western
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French language area. Although passport and customs checks were by now increasingly conducted by officials as the train continued on its way, there remained a need for administrative offices on each side of the frontier. For the Liege/Aachen international line these were increasingly focused on Aachen itself on the German side of the frontier, while on the Belgian side, following the definition of more clearly delineated language zones, customs and passports offices were relocated a couple of hundred meters to the west to francophone Welkenraedt, which left the station at Herbesthal
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, thousands of wounded soldiers stranded on the way home from the front received medical care and treatment here. Additionally, more than 70,000 forced labourers from Belgium were channeled into Germany through Herbesthal. Towards the end of the war the station fell into the hands of plunderers returning from the front. Herbesthal station became the focus of so much congestion that an alternative less southerly route, today known as the , was constructed by the Germans between 1915 and 1917, entering occupied Belgium from Aachen via Tongeren, completely avoiding Herbesthal and, indeed
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State Railway company and the redevelopment on the Herbesthal site undertaken in 1889. By 1920, directly before the frontier shifted and the station was transferred to Belgium, Prussian locomotives housed and maintained at Herbesthal included Type P8s, old Type T9s and older Type T3s. When the (Belgian) SNCB took over, they transferred engines from their existing smaller engine depot at Welkenraedt, where the locomotive depot was closed down. As part of the reparations package agreed by the victorious powers a large number of formerly German locomotives were transferred to Belgium
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a reader provided a vivid account of her problem-free crossing of the frontier at Herbesthal from Germany into Belgium during the early morning hours of 2 August 1914. Nevertheless, the outbreak of war brought an end to civilian passenger transport, and the border crossing passed from the control of the national railway company into that of the army, who also took control of the railways in occupied Belgium. Herbesthal became critically important as a transit location and as a replenishment location for the armies on the western front. At the same time
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Europe. Initially Herbesthal station was a shared responsibility, administered both from Ronheide Station at the top of the and from Verviers in Belgium. The Rhine Railway Company provided the railcars and train staff while the Belgian State Railway company provided the locomotives. For the itself the trains were initially hauled up the slope using a cable powered by a static steam engine. The system proved troublesome and costly in operation, however, and was abandoned little by little, so that after 1854 trains on the incline were always hauled by a conventional locomotive
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Viaduct of Moresnet


distance to the east, via Herbesthal, was becoming increasingly congested through sheer volume of traffic. The old frontier crossing at Herbesthal railway station itself was the channel through which more than 70,000 Belgian forced labourers passed, and it also became the unintended home and nursing centre for thousands of stranded war casualties. Work on the Geul Valley bridge started early in 1915 and was completed in October 1916, although the full "Montzen line" rail route opened for through traffic only in 1917. The companies involved in the construction were, principally
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Aachen Hauptbahnhof


Aachen Hauptbahnhof (German for Aachen main station) is the most important railway station for the city of Aachen, in the far west of Germany near the Dutch and Belgian border. It is the largest of the four currently active Aachen stations, and is integrated into the long-distance network. A station at Aachen was first opened in 1841, when the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft opened its line from Cologne. The line first was extended to Herbesthal (near the Belgian border) and on 15 October 1843 to Antwerp. The first station
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switching location through most of the 1950s. Before the war the locomotives housed and maintained at Herbesthal had been those used for local passenger and goods trains, but during the later 1940s there were fewer of these, initially because of austerity and then during the 1950s because of the growth in road transport. Herbesthal now became the home deport for the "Pacific class" NMBS/SNCB Type 1s, built in the late 1930s but still used for the prestigious international luxury trains, and during the 1950s the most powerful high speed steam
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cost of high Dutch tolls. On the Prussian side of the border the industrialist-investors David Hansemann and Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen seized eagerly on the idea. The Rhine Railway Company (""Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft"") obtained the king's agreement in 1837 to the construction of a rail link from Cologne to Aachen, crossing into Belgium at the frontier on the edge of . Herbesthal was a small village of around 300 people, and an earlier idea had been to have the frontier at Eupen, a more substantial town
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express service, the , though only the eastbound trains took the route passing through Herbesthal. During the 1920s Herbesthal increasingly lost one of its important pre-war functions, with the train operators now switching between Belgian and German locomotives not at the frontier but at Aachen. Belgium was again invaded by German troops in May 1940, although developments in motor transport during the previous two decades meant that the generals were no longer quite so dependent on the rail network as they had been for the First World War. During approximately 52 months
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History of rail transport in Germany


also the first German trunk or long-distance railway and the first exclusively steam-powered railway in Germany. Its route also included the first German railway tunnel. On 29 June 1839, the first section of the Magdeburg-Leipzig Railway, from Magdeburg to Schönebeck was opened. After being extended to Halle and Leipzig in 1840 it became the first international main line and had a route length of . Between 1839 and 1843, the Rhenish Railway was built from Cologne to the border station of Herbesthal, with its connection to Antwerp
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in 1920, and through the 1920s many of the Belgian locomotives stored at Herbesthal were ones that had originally operated in Germany. These included Belgian Type 81 (previously Prussian Type G8.1)s, Belgian Type 93 (previously Prussian Type T9.3)s and Belgian Type 97 (previously Prussian Type T14)s. The Herbesthal locomotive fleet also included Belgian built Type 7s and, after 1945, Type 29s. Through the 1920s and 1930s, however, the heavy luxury international express services from Ostend were generally hauled by locomotives maintained at the depots in Liege and Brussels
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clearance at Herbesthal. It was also on a main route for passenger express services from Belgium, the Rhineland and northern France. As well as this, the station was important for increasing volumes of freight traffic, even though some westbound trains were routed to avoid the southbound stretch because of the gradient of the south of Aachen. On 2 August 1914 war on the western front was launched with a German invasion of Luxembourg, although it was only on 4 August 1914 that Germany declared war on Belgium. In the Edinburgh Evening News
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and Ostend being rerouted onto the to the north, thereby avoiding Herbesthal completely. Passenger services along the branch line to the east, via Eupen to Raeren in Germany had already been ended on 28 March 1959, so that by 1961 Herbethal had also lost its function as an interchange station. Within Belgium the 1950s saw a growth in friction between Dutch speakers and French speakers over language usage. came into operation in 1962 that divided Belgium into four language areas. The largest two areas, and those with the greatest political muscle,
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, Liege. War ended in defeat in November 1918, to be followed by revolution and republican government at home, and the Treaty of Versailles drawn up in France. Eupen and Malmedy were transferred from Germany to Belgium, along with the adjacent enclave of Moresnet which had enjoyed a strangely ambiguous political status since 1816. The border changes were mandated in 1919 and their implementation began in January 1920. The actual frontier moved a short distance up the line to the southern entrance of the (subsequently renewed) . Herbesthal now found itself
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were the Flemish speaking area centred on Ghent, Antwerp and Hasselt, and the French speaking area centred on Charleroi and Liege. The city of Brussels had language issues of its own. and was defined as a third language area, while there was a very small fourth language area in the extreme east of the country, made up essentially of the land confiscated from Germany in 1920, where the dominating language was still German. Herbesthal was in the small German speaking enclave, while 200 meters to the west Welkenraedt was in the
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1858 the British monarch's eldest daughter passed through Herbesthal with her new husband en route to a new home in Germany where thirty years later they would briefly become empress and emperor. Between the British and German (and other) royal families there was a large and proliferating network of kinship connections which would ensure regular use of the "Prince's Waiting Room" during the closing years of the nineteenth century. From the mid 1890s there were newly introduced high-profile luxury services, the and the Northern Express, stopping for customs
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"" Königliche Eisenbahndirection zu Cöln (linksrheinische)"" / KED) based in Cologne. The KED implemented a complete renovation of the station in 1889. The facilities built up over previous decades were no longer able to accommodate the escalating needs. The goods station was expanded, the depot receiving two extra "ring-form" parking slots for locomotives accessible using a new turntable. Two years earlier the branch line to Eupen had been extended to Raeren where it now linked up with the Vennbahn (railway). The station
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Kakogawa Station


There are three island platforms with six tracks elevated. The station opened on December 23, 1888 when the Sanyō Railway extended from to . On April 1, 1913, Banshū Railway (now Kakogawa Line) opened its terminal named Kakogawachō, which was merged into Kakogawa Station later (the railway company's application was posted on the Official Gazette ("Kanpō") on May 14, 1915, but the actual date of the merger is unknown). The Banshū Railway also opened the line later named the Takasago Line originating from
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the line. However, with transport users increasingly favouring roads, Welkenraedt lost its goods station during the 1980s. In 2012 the municipality decided to renovate and reassign some of the abandoned railway buildings. One of them is used for a Youth Club. Belgium was the second country to start building a railway network, and plans drawn up for a national network in the 1830s already envisaged a connection to Cologne so that industry in Belgium could have a transport link through to the rapidly industrialising Ruhr region in western Prussia without incurring the intervening
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Lyttelton railway station


. The first train to Lyttelton was a freight consist headed by the provincial railways No. 3 locomotive, which ran through the tunnel to Lyttelton the week of 25 November, two weeks before the official opening of the tunnel and the station. The first passenger train arrived at Lyttelton on 9 December 1867, the date the station was officially opened. After opening, operations settled down to a schedule of three mixed return services for daily runs between Lyttelton and Christchurch. Passenger traffic on the preceding Ferrymead line had been very light,
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Herbesthal railway station


protests, the main station building itself was torn down in 1983. All that now (2014) remains visible is a couple of foundation stones and steps. During the summer of 2014 the local municipality organised an exhibition on the site, dedicated to the station's history. Plans exist for a more permanent display or exhibition centre. The goods station was located to the west of the passenger station. After the closure of the passenger station in 1966 part of the goods station was reallocated to Welkenraedt station, a short distance down
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Date Station


Date Station is served by the Tōhoku Main Line, and is located 281.9 kilometers from the official starting point of the line at Tokyo Station. Date Station has two opposed side platforms connected to the station building by a footbridge. The station is attended. The station opened on April 1, 1895, as . It was renamed Date on December 1, 1914. The current station building was completed in 1939. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April
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Barlaston railway station


Barlaston railway station served the village of Barlaston in Staffordshire, England. This station was opened on 17 April 1848 and is on the first line opened by the North Staffordshire Railway on that date. Trains no longer stop at Barlaston. The to local service was withdrawn when the route was temporarily closed for major refurbishment on 23 May 2004 as part of the West Coast Main Line Modernisation scheme and never reinstated. Passengers are now served by bus service No 14 and 14X operated by D&G Bus, which acts as the station's official
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Banavie Pier railway station


transported to Banavie from Inverness. The official closure date for the passenger service was 4 September 1939 however the last train actually ran on 15 September. Freight services ceased on 6 August 1951. The first "Banavie Junction" was located on the West Highland Railway around one mile east of Fort William railway station and was opened on 1 June 1895 when the branch line to Banavie Pier was opened. When the Mallaig Extension Railway opened on 30 March 1901 the junction was renamed "Mallaig Junction" however a second 'new' "
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Rhenish Railway Company


to build the railway line from Cologne via Düren and Aachen to the Belgian border, a distance of 86 kilometres. The first seven kilometres of track from Cologne to Müngersdorf was opened in 1839. Two further sections to Lövenich and from Düren to Aachen were completed in 1840 and 1841. This included the 1,632 m long Königsdorfer Tunnel, which has now been opened to create a cutting. The last section to the Belgian border at Herbesthal was opened to traffic on 15 October 1843. There was a grade of 1:38 between Aachen and
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with five mainline platforms (numbered 1-5) and, on the south side of these, two branch line platforms (numbered 12 & 13) for the local service connecting Eupen with the main line. The mainline platform by the newly, in 1889, rebuilt and enlarged station building, had a canopy: the other mainline platforms acquired canopies later. After the closure of the station in 1966 the platforms were quickly torn up, but the main station building remained, standing empty for many years. Eventually, despite local
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Tarago railway station


Junction to Bungendore section was awarded to W S Topham & J Angus (tramway contractors) on 3 October 1882. The contract for construction of a station building, Station Master's residence, and goods shed is recorded as being let to G. & C. Horn on 17 December 1883 and Tarago as being officially opened on 3 January 1884. The exact date that the station building and other original buildings were completed is unclear, but it is likely that it was much later than the official opening of January 1884 - either that or
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Peel Road railway station


reflect the fact that it was the railway's station closest to Peel, although it is also thought that the original title was derisory to the local inhabitants and the railway had received a number of requests to re-title the station. At one time there was a sharply curving siding off the running line which facilitated the collection of stone from the nearby quarry, but the opening and closure dates are unknown. The station was officially closed in and removed from all timetable literature after this point. Trains did however still stop at
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Alloa railway station


end of September 2006. It was originally projected that the station would reopen to passenger traffic in the Summer of 2007 but this date was then put back to allow for the upgrading of a level crossing. The official opening took place on Thursday, 15 May 2008. Passenger use of the new railway station has greatly exceeded forecasts and since re-opening the service has been improved by increasing evening and Sunday frequencies from two-hourly to hourly and by adding the peak hour service to Edinburgh in 2009. In its first year
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Kunming North railway station


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Berlin Jannowitzbrücke station


Riedel" companies. When the Jannowitz Bridge was rebuilt (1881–1883), the suburban station of the same name was opened on the Berlin Stadtbahn (“city railway”) viaduct next to the Spree river. The opening date is officially stated to be 7 February 1882. Since the station was just an open platform with a canopy, passengers were exposed to the weather and the smoke of the locomotives. In 1885, the station was given its first weather protection in the form of a wall of glass, which was built
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Narrandera railway station


important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales. The site is significant as a partly intact late Victorian railway complex with items dating from the opening of the station in 1881. Railway operations at Narrandera date back to the "Great Railway Years" in NSW in the late 19th century, with the station opening during the time of the earliest development of railway infrastructure in south western NSW in the 1880s. Narrandera Railway Precinct has historic significance for its connection to the NSW Government Railway
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Vale of Glamorgan Line


constituent part of the Great Western Railway in 1923, after the railway grouping and was known as the Vale of Glamorgan Railway. Local traffic on the line included that from the limestone quarries and the cement works at Aberthaw, and Rhoose at the eastern end of the line. Wartime traffic was created from Tremains and Brackla Hill at Bridgend and the RAF base at St. Athan. More recent developments were the opening of the Aberthaw power stations (Aberthaw "A" in October 1963 (official opening date) and Aberthaw "B"
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Nottingham Victoria railway station


Nottingham Joint St'n". In the 1898 Royal Atlas of England, the station is recorded as the "Grt Central & Grt Northern Joint Central Station" The Town Clerk resolved the situation by suggesting the name "Nottingham Victoria" to reflect the fact that the planned opening date coincided with Queen Victoria's birthday; this was readily accepted at a meeting of the Nottingham Joint Station Committee on 12 June. Nottingham Victoria station was officially opened without ceremony in the early hours of 24 May 1900 – over a year after the commencement of
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Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad


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Pahiatua railway station


part of the project. It was expected that a new goods shed and loading shelter would be added in the future. The signals and communications equipment was housed in a separate building. This was one of the last wooden station buildings of its type erected by the Railways Department before it switched to more modern materials. Arrangements were made in January and February for the official opening ceremony, for which the dates of 10 March and 17 March were initially proposed. The Ways and Works Branch were requested to have the old station building
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Black Island Platform railway station


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Scropton railway station


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Birchfield Halt railway station


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Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway


kilometres of track from the original Cologne terminus at Thürmchen (north of the Cologne walls on the bank of the Rhine) to Müngersdorf was opened in 1839. Two further sections to Lövenich and from Düren to Aachen were completed in 1840 and 1841. This includes the 1,632 m long Königsdorf Tunnel, which had its roof removed in 1954. The resulting cutting was widened in 2000 to accommodate four tracks. The last section to the Belgian border at Herbesthal was opened to traffic on 15 October 1843. There was a grade of 1:38
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Hixon railway station


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Long Ashton railway station


. Quite when the station opened is uncertain – Butt's "Directory of Railway Stations" states that the station opened with the line in June 1841, but Quick's "Railway Passenger Stations" states it only opened in June 1852. Both sources agree that the station closed in January 1856, however other sources such as Oakley's "Somerset Railway Stations" contain no reference to Ashton at all. If the earlier date is correct, services would have originally been provided by the Great Western Railway on behalf of the Bristol &
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Pahiatua railway station


removed and the site tidied up prior to this time. The date of the ceremony was later moved to 31 March, and members of the public were invited to attend. Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake officially opened the station, with around 100 guests and members of the public in attendance. Special guests included Colonel W. R. Burge, son of Pahiatua's first stationmaster; past station masters, including J. Weston; W. W. Day, chairman of the Pahiatua County Council; T. M. Small, Deputy General Manager of the Railways;
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Wakefield Kirkgate railway station


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South Brisbane railway station


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Strathaven Central railway station


wagons that were awaiting repair. The line had been intended as a through route between Lanarkshire and Ayrshire, however there was very little traffic along the route as the population in the area was very low. The other stations on the route were closed from September until November 1909 and then again from January 1917 until December 1922. As stated, the last train ran on 10 September 1939, however the official closing date was two weeks later. Strathaven Central station was also on the old Caledonian Railway line to Stonehouse that remained open
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Milton Halt railway station


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Trevarno railway station


of the line at that time. It also served the Trevarno estate gardens until circa 2011. The grand opening ceremony of Trevarno Station was officially held on 26 July 2010 however the station was not able to operate as it was not permitted to carry passengers on that date. Trevarno Station has a through and a bay platform with a single long siding. It has a station lamp but it no longer has a station building or car park. This is a now request stop and passenger access is by the Black Bridge reached via
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Marchington railway station


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Edinburgh–Bathgate line


the district was inadequate, and the large premises would require a considerable volume of general stores as well as coal. A private branch railway was opened to the public on 19 June 1905 from the E&BR line, authorised by the Edinburgh and District Lunacy Board Act, 30 July 1900. (The line may have been used before the official opening date in connection with construction of the hospital.) It was worked by the North British Railway, and there was an intermediate station at Dechmont, available to the general public, and
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Rail transport in Jamaica


of the economy. The railway station clerk was responsible for cancelling the stamps on correspondence with a date-stamp. Each station already had its own date-stamp (used to validate passenger railway tickets); this same date-stamp was used to cancel stamps on mail. Forty one railway stations are known to have cancelled mail though some of them handled very little mail. Inland mail to and from the Jamaica Government Railway could be sent postage free if it related to official business. From 1 September 1913 sorting carriages were
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Archer Park Rail Museum


of the Alexandra Railway Bridge, the Emu Park and Central Railway provided a unified rail link between the two halves of Rockhampton. The Archer Park station was not ready for the opening of the Junction Railway, and no official opening ceremony was held; however the station was opened for the use of the public from 11 December 1899. The official name Archer Park was adopted in October 1899, rather than Leichhardt Park, from which it was resumed. Being the central station for Rockhampton, Archer Park superseded the Stanley Street station not
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Andora railway station


Andora railway station () is a railway station serving the town of Andora, in Liguria, northwestern Italy. The station is located on the Genoa–Ventimiglia railway and was opened on December 11, 2016. The train services are operated by Trenitalia. The station was built to replace the former station Andora dating from 1872. The station was opened as part of an 18.8 km new double-track railway between Andora and San Lorenzo which operates largely through tunnels, rather than winding along the coast. The station is served by
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Zhangjiakou railway station (Opened in 1957)


Zhangjiakou railway station ( (Formerly known as Zhangjiakou South railway station () until February 2019) is a railway station of Jingbao Railway, Zhangji Railway and Jingzhang Intercity Railway located in Zhangjiakou, Hebei, China. The station was constructed in 1956 and officially opened in 1957. It belongs to the Beijing Railway Administration and the Beijing-Baotou Railway railway routes. The line is the future terminus of the Beijing–Zhangjiakou intercity railway, the Zhangjiakou–Hohhot high-speed railway and the Zhangjiakou–Datong High-Speed Railway.
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Sint-Truiden railway station


Sint-Truiden railway station ( ) is a railway station in the town of Sint-Truiden, Limburg, Belgium. The station opened on 2 April 1838 and is located on line 21. The train services are operated by National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS). Sint-Truiden used to be located on 23 (Drieslinter-Tongeren). The current station dates from the 1970s and replaced a building dating from 1882 which was demolished in 1975. In 2005 the station and its surrounding area was modernised. Extra bike
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Jialuhe railway station


Jialuhe railway station () is a closed station on Zhengzhou–Kaifeng Intercity Railway. The station is located at the crossing of Zhengkai Avenue and Zhengxin Road, Zhengzhou, Henan, China. The station was originally named as Zhengxinlu Station (). It was changed to the current name prior to its opening along with the Zhengzhou–Kaifeng Intercity Railway in December 2014. On 10 January 2016, the station was closed due to lack of passengers. The re-opening date was not given. The station is an elevated train
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Hampton-in-Arden railway station


Hampton-in-Arden railway station serves the village of Hampton-in-Arden in the West Midlands of England. It is situated on the West Coast Main Line between Coventry and Birmingham. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by West Midlands Railway. The present station dates from 1884, when it was built by the London and North Western Railway (L&BR). It replaced an earlier station dating from the opening of the London and Birmingham Railway in 1837 which was located approximately further north-west
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Roodeschool railway station


Roodeschool is a railway station located in Roodeschool, Netherlands. The station was opened on 16 August 1893 and is located at the end of the Sauwerd–Roodeschool railway. The train services are operated by Arriva. For well over a century, Roodeschool was the northernmost station in the Netherlands, until 28 March 2018, when further along the line, the station Eemshaven was opened, slightly more north. At the same date, the old, head-end station, was closed and a new station for Roodeschool was opened,
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Railway stations not officially closed with no services in the United Kingdom


However, proposals have been made to reopen Wedgwood and/or Barlaston, but nothing has been confirmed and the future of the two stations is unknown. Norton Bridge railway station services were suspended in 2004. The station officially closed on 10 December 2017 to coincide with the new West Midland franchise, with the replacement bus carrying on to March 2019. Newhaven Marine railway station was closed in 2006 when the station was decided that it was "not safe for passengers". As for re-opening, no proposals to open the station has
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Maryport and Carlisle Railway


engines" The 1912 statistics of the line included the following information: Note: the date of opening of the first portion of the railway to Arkleby, and of the passenger stations on it, are uncertain. A special directors' train ran on 15 July 1840 but Quick says that the safest date for public opening to passengers is Autumn 1840. Derwent line Bolton loop There were two private stations on the line, at Dovenby and at Crofton; A private railway station owned by a lady is a novelty even amongst such novelties
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Witney railway station (goods)


allocation when the new Witney station opened, was demolished during November 1905 after having been used for storage purposes. When the East Gloucestershire Railway opened an extension of the line in 1873, a new passenger station was constructed on a different site to the south, opening on 15 January 1873. This left the old station on a spur line, and it became the town's goods depot on the same date. The directors of the Witney Railway had first been opposed to the downgrading of their station but the Great Western Railway,
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Mount Victoria railway station


was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. The station opened on 6 September 1869. The Platform 2 building dates from 1869 with a railway refreshment room added in 1884. The Platform 1 building dates from 1911 when the line was duplicated. An extensive yard including a locomotive depot existed west of the station. Mount Victoria has always been an important railway centre since its opening in 1868. It was the first platform structure made of material other than timber built after Penrith station. The original station
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Loughor railway station


Loughor railway station was on the South Wales Railway, now the West Wales Line, from Swansea to . The station was located on the west side of Swansea in the residential area of Loughor. The railway line between and was opened on 11 October 1852 by the broad gauge South Wales Railway, which later became part of the Great Western Railway. The engineer of this line was Brunel. Originally, Loughor was the first station westwards from Landore; and were opened at later dates. The station was double track, with 2
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Penistone railway station


Penistone railway station is a railway station which serves the town of Penistone, in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. Train services are provided by Northern. The current station (at the junction of the Woodhead Line and Penistone Line) opened in 1874, replacing a station solely on the Woodhead Line dating from the line's opening by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway in 1845. The railway station currently only serves the Penistone Line. The line connects Huddersfield with Sheffield, via Barnsley
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Warmsworth railway station


Warmsworth railway station was a railway station to serve the village of Warmsworth, South Yorkshire, England and was on the Hull and Barnsley and Great Central Joint Railway. It was built ready for the opening of the line on 1 May 1916 with flanking platforms and facilities. However, although the line opened to goods traffic on that date, along with the other stations on the line it never opened for passengers. The only passenger trains to operate over the line were enthusiasts' specials, the last of these being the "Doncaster
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Herbesthal railway station


Belgium was committed to a 3 Kw DC network while the Germans had opted for a 15 Kw AC power supply. At this stage dual-voltage and multi-voltage locomotives were far from mainstream in Europe, which imposed a greater level of inflexibility on decisions about where to change power supply systems and locomotives. In the end the decision was taken that for trains operating along the line from Liege to Aachen, switching of the power supply and locomotives should be centralised some distance inside Germany, at Aachen, where the equivalent switch
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Herbesthal railway station


would also be made for trains coming from the Netherlands. An added advantage of choosing Aachen was that many international passenger trains were already held up there while being reconfigured, as blocks of carriages from the directions of Rotterdam and Brussels were split or merged for the next part of their journeys across Germany. Where this happened there was little or no incremental time-cost involved in switching locomotives at the same time. Work began on electrification of main lines in 1961, and this immediately involved some of the international trains headed towards Brussels
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Coastal railway line, Israel


built. Over the years additional stations were built along the line, including Hadera West (1957), Haifa Hof HaCarmel (1999), Tel Aviv University (2000), Caesarea-Pardes Hanna (June 2001), Lev HaMifratz (Sep 2001) and Hutzot HaMifratz (Oct 2001). A new section that includes six new stations along the South Ayalon Highway and Highway 4 was constructed in the early 2000s and connected the Coastal Railway with Ashdod Ad Halom railway station of the Lod–Ashkelon railway. The first phase
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Rail transport in Vatican City


be ₤24 million. The station building (see below) was constructed between 1929 and 1933. The first locomotive entered the Vatican in March 1932. The station was opened officially on 2 October 1934. A Railway Convention was ratified between Italy and Vatican City on 12 September 1934, on which date the property passed from "Ferrovie dello Stato" (Italian State Railways) to the Holy See. In October 1934 the Ministry of Public Works gave the completed rail lines to Vatican City and Ferrovie dello Stato, respectively. "Legge
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Wronki railway station


Wronki railway station is a railway station serving the town of Wronki, in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1848 and is located on the Poznań–Szczecin railway. The train services are operated by PKP and Przewozy Regionalne. The station building dates from 1880 and has been a registered monument since 2002. In 2012 and 2013 2.6 million zł was spent on modernising the station, making it accessible for less able people. The modernised station was opened in November 2013. The station is served by the following
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Quedlinburg station


. The station was opened on 2 July 1862 with the railway line from Halberstadt to Thale. The entrance building and other buildings date from its opening. A number of industrial companies settled in the following years near the railway. In 1885, Quedlinburg became a small railway junction with the opening of the line to Gernrode and Ballenstedt. The railway line to Blankenburg was opened in 1908. The station had to be rebuilt to accommodate the additional trains. During the reconstruction, a new platform 1 West and a new water tower were
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White Bear railway station


White Bear railway station, on Station Road, Adlington, Lancashire, England, was on the Lancashire Union Railway line between St Helens and Blackburn. The station was named in some timetables as White Bear (Adlington) or White Bear for Adlington. The station opened on 1 December 1869 one month after the line that it was situated on, the Lancashire Union Railway from Boars Head Junction in Standish to Rawlinson Bridge, opened for goods traffic. Passenger services also opened on the same date at Boars Head Junction and at Red Rock
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Hangzhou East railway station


the site. It officially opened on 1 July 2013, in conjunction with the opening of the Hangzhou–Ningbo High-Speed Railway and Nanjing–Hangzhou Passenger Railway. The station also serves the Shanghai–Hangzhou Passenger Railway. It has 30 railway tracks, and stations for Hangzhou Metro lines 1 and 4. A coach station and bus terminals are also part of the new transit hub. Hangzhou East railway station is served by a station of the same name on Line 1 and Line 4 of Hangzhou Metro. This station offers
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Neunkirchen Hauptbahnhof


"Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn"). The first passenger trains ran daily from April 1851 to Ludwigshafen and back. The station itself was officially opened on 15 or 16 November 1852 together with the Neunkirchen–Saarbrücken line. Eight years later, on 25 May 1860, the double-track Rhine–Nahe Railway ("Rhein-Nahebahn") was completed to a new station building, the so-called "Nahebahnhof" ("Nahe station") built in its current location. The old station, dating from 1850, was
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Northallerton West railway station


Work started on the station's construction in October 2014, with the official opening taking place on 22 November 2014. The date also coincided with the restart of services from . The first train to arrive at the brand new station was a four-coach service hauled by HN Rail's Brush Type 4 Class 47 715 "Poseidon" in Fragonset livery. The station, along with that at , was closed in August 2016 following a collision between a train and a car at a level crossing near Yafforth. It is hoped to
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Christ's Hospital railway station


, although it was only infrequently used. On the opposite side of the station at the end of the Up main line platform was "North Box" (or "A Box"), which replaced a previous box known as "Stammerham Junction" dating from 1865, possibly at the same time as South Box was brought into use or even a few days earlier. The station opened on 28 April 1902, although the official ceremony took place on Thursday 1 May 1902. The station was initially known as "Christ's
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St Keyne Wishing Well Halt railway station


signs and other official documents by 1974: the return of the term came in 1978 for the opening of IBM Halt in Scotland and in the renaming of these two stations in 2008. The Liskeard and Looe Railway was opened on 27 December 1860 to carry goods traffic; passenger trains started on 11 September 1879. The railway in those days connected only with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway at Moorswater. The link from Coombe Junction to Liskeard railway station opened on 25 February 1901 and St Keyne station opened in October 1902. The single
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Crowle North railway station


Crowle North railway station, officially known as Crowle railway station, was a station in Crowle, Lincolnshire on the Axholme Joint Railway which is now closed. The North designation was used to avoid confusion with Crowle railway station on a neighbouring line. The station was opened on 10 August 1903. Originally it was the terminus of the line from , until the section onward to was opened for goods on 14 November 1904, and to passengers on 2 January 1905. The station closed with the end of passenger services on the line on
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Cockett railway station


Cockett station was a former station on the West Wales Line from Swansea to Gowerton and onwards to . The station was located on the west side of Swansea in the residential area of Cockett. The railway line between Landore and Carmarthen was opened on 11 October 1852 by the broad gauge South Wales Railway, which later became part of the Great Western Railway. The engineer of this line was Brunel. Originally, the first station westwards from Landore was at Loughor; Cockett and Gowerton stations were opened at later dates. Cockett station was
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King's Cliffe railway station


King's Cliffe railway station is a former railway station in King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire. It was owned by the London and North Western Railway, being situated on their line between and Peterborough, but from 1883 to 1916 was also served by trains of the Great Northern Railway. The station was opened on 1 November 1879 and closed to passengers on 6 June 1966. On that date the section from Rugby (Midland) to Kings Cliffe was closed completely, but the line east of Kings Cliffe station remained open for goods traffic
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Hexham railway station


Hexham railway station serves the town of Hexham in Northumberland, England. It is located on the Tyne Valley Line which runs from Newcastle upon Tyne to Carlisle, and is managed by Northern who operate all passenger train services. Dating from around 1835, Hexham station is one of the oldest purpose-built railway stations in the world. The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway was formed in 1829, and was opened in stages. The first section of that line to open for passenger trains was between and Hexham, which was formally opened on
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Liverpool Overhead Railway


a mile north of Alexandra Dock station to the carriage sheds and workshops; no land closer to the station had been available. At the time of opening in February 1893, the railway had cost £510,000 and used a total of 25,000 tons of iron and steel. The first official journey on the railway took place on 7 January 1893, with the railway Chairman taking engineers and other people of importance on a tour of the length of the railway. The railway was officially opened on 4 February the same year by the Leader
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Longniddry railway station


Longniddry railway station is located at the southeast corner of the village of Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland. The station is on the East Coast Main Line, east of Edinburgh Waverley, and is served by stopping passenger trains on the North Berwick Line. The main line between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed was opened by the North British Railway on 22 June 1846, with Longniddry station and the branch line to Haddington opening on the same date. Longniddry's importance as a junction station increased in 1898 with the opening of
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St Pancras railway station


but has been overtaken by others since. The tube station pre-dated the mainline as part of the initial section of Metropolitan Railway project on 10 January 1863, which was the first section of the London Underground to open. The station expanded to accommodate St Pancras on opening, following by interchanges with the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway (now the Piccadilly line) in 1906, with the City & South London Railway (now the Northern line) opening a year later. The Victoria line platforms were opened in 1968
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Eglinton Street railway station


Eglinton Street railway station was a railway station approximately one mile south of , in the Port Eglinton district of Glasgow. Sources published in the late 20th century claim that this station opened on Sunday 28 February 1909, which would have been highly unlikely given Scotland's sabbatarian culture at the time. Contemporary sources, such as railway notices, timetables, maps and Post Office Directories, show that the station existed nearly 30 years before that date. When the station opened, on 1 July 1879, it allowed Caledonian Railway trains from Edinburgh
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Theddingworth railway station


Theddingworth railway station was a railway station serving Theddingworth in the English county of  Leicestershire. It was opened on the Rugby and Stamford Railway in 1850. Parliamentary approval was gained in 1846 by the directors of the London and Birmingham Railway for a branch from Rugby to the Syston and Peterborough Railway near Stamford. In the same year the company became part of the London and North Western Railway. The section from Rugby to Market Harborough, which included Theddingworth, opened in 1850. Although the official opening was not till 1 May 1850,
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Machynlleth railway station


narrow gauge Corris Railway, which opened its station building on the north side of the main-line goods yard in 1859. This was later made accessible from the mainline station by a flight of steps from the standard gauge platform. Waggish porters were known to call out "Platform 14 for Corris" when greeting arriving passengers. The existing mainline station dates from 1863 with the opening of the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway. The following year the Aberystwyth and Welsh Coast Railway opened the line as far as via , and in 1867 the
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Central railway station, Sydney


hall spanning the up and down mainlines. Separate platforms and facilities were provided for arriving and departing passengers. The new station building appears to have taken three years to complete, the drawings are dated 1871, the official opening was in 1874. The second station, like the first, was constructed to allow for a future extension of the line into the city, the lines initially extending just far enough past the building to accommodate a steam locomotive. John Whitton, the Engineer-in-Chief designed a neo-classical station
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