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  • ...itecturally historic hotels that date back to the establishment of the two railway lines into the city centre, back the Victorian age. The Victoria Hotel and ...was the location for the films ''Yanks'', starring Richard Gere, and ''The Railway Children'', a 1970s classic about Victorian children whose father goes miss
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  • ...declined after First World War. During Second World War, Harrogate's large hotels accommodated government offices that had been evacuated from London. This p The many business visitors to Harrogate sustain a number of large hotels, originally built for visitors to the Spa.
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  • ...Road access for the workers was poor, so the Admiralty built a metre-gauge railway to transport them from a terminus at [[Davington]], near the Home Works, to ...andard.aspx?i_PageID=35814| publisher=Faversham.org| title=Davington Light Railway| accessdate=2008-04-08}}</ref>
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  • ...area has been a popular tourist destination since Victorian days when the railway between [[Dublin]] and [[Belfast]] was opened. Lying approximately half way ...ts. More informal entertainment is widely available throughout the year in hotels and bars.
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  • ...uld typically find in a British village. Between 1909 and 1950 there was a railway station, Red Wharf and Benllech, close to the village which was the terminu
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  • ...ost Office, a pharmacy and a fish and chip shop. It is served by Rhosneigr railway station.
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  • ...regime under Defence Regulation 18B. By the late 1960s the Peel to Douglas railway line had closed and tourism saw a decline. Fishing from Peel has seen perio ...m was built in 1997, costing £5.5M, partly new and partly in the old Peel railway station. The museum covers the past and present of the island and houses '
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  • ...[[London]] and the north: many old coaching inns still operate as pubs and hotels, and Baldock has a surprising number of pubs for its size. The high street Since 1850, the town has a railway station which today operates on the line between London Kings Cross and [[C
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  • ...ng corn or producing flour. Several have been converted to become homes or hotels, but one is still operated on an occasional basis. The river has been used ...=2012-01-02}}</ref> which carries the Southern Railway line to Basingstoke railway station. Just beyond it was Old Basing Mill, still marked as a corn mill in
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  • ...ith this they built an electric urban railway which later became a coastal railway to Ramsey. However, it never achieved its goal of connecting with the heart ...and to have electric-powered street lighting, powered by the Manx Electric Railway generators.<ref name="IOMT-Onchan">
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  • ...andpickedhotels.co.uk/hotels/new-hall-hotel/History/ |publisher=Handpicked Hotels |accessdate=14 September 2010|quote=...it is said that Charles II stayed on ...hfield]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Butt |first=R.V.J. |title=The Directory of Railway Stations |year=1995 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Ltd |location=Yeovil |isbn=
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  • ...The numerous fine Georgian and Regency villas and mansions are now mostly hotels. In 1874, Sidmouth was connected to the railway network by a branch line from Sidmouth Junction. This was dismantled in 196
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  • ...musement arcades, crazy golf, skate complex, quasar laser, miniature steam railway and boating lake and live entertainment ...good choice of restaurants, cafés, public houses and nightlife as well as hotels, guest houses and caravan parks. South Shields plays host to an annual free
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  • ...iemore is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey Railway, a heritage railway. ...title=Transactions|year=1899|page=416}}</ref> following which the Highland Railway became a major employer, constructing housing for its staff and the Aviemor
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  • ...ibraries/librarydetails/libsearch1.asp?name=Lytham Lytham public library], railway station, market hall and "The Clifton Arms" Hotel. Also located there are " ...t is a traditional quiet Victorian/Edwardian seaside resort with up-market hotels, a sandy beach, donkeys, a small pier and ice cream stalls. Sand dunes frin
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  • The area is separated from Belgravia to the north by Victoria Railway Station, and bounded by the [[River Thames]] to the south, Vauxhall Bridge ...Gardens estates, and many of the larger Victorian houses were converted to hotels and other uses.
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  • ...to it being a major railway junction in the past; where the Great Northern Railway's line diverged for [[Belfast]], [[Dublin]], [[Armagh]] and [[Londonderry]] ....org.uk - 60209.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The Northway bridge (foreground) and railway bridge (background), August 2005]]
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  • ...south of [[Liskeard]], to which it is linked by the delightful Looe Valley Railway. ...the bridge lies the Victorian Guildhall, and just north of the bridge the railway station; the terminus of the Looe Valley Line, the branch line to [[Liskear
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  • ...on Railway opened a station here in 1850. It was taken over by the Furness Railway in 1866. ...ts on either side of the railway, a public library, police station, banks, hotels, school, market square and allotments.<ref name="oldmaps1898">{{cite web|ti
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  • ...[[Middle Shires]]. Silloth developed in the 1860s around the terminus of a railway from Carlisle which had begun construction in 1855. For the first time, wor ...ry's top fifty courses,<ref>http://www.sillothgolfclub.co.uk</ref> several hotels and bed and breakfasts, public houses, tea rooms and eateries.
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