Cholsey and Wallingford Railway closed to passengers in 1959 and to freight in 1965.
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Aberdeen Airport handled 3.1 million passengers, more than 97, 000 passenger flights and about 6, 200 tonnes of freight in 2011.
As measured by ton-miles, trucks controlled 32% of the nation's freight in 2002, the most recent year statistics are available, while trains delivered 28%.
He began his career unpacking freight in a Payless stockroom, then moved to Nordstrom, which, like Zappos, started as a shoe store and is famous for its customer service.
It already handles the second largest amount of air freight in the UK and the opportunity of adding rail to it will be of huge strategic advantage for the region.
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Perry forecasts a roughly 3 percent increase in freight tonnage in 2012 and price increases of between 5 and 8 percent.
The original railway between Airdrie and Bathgate closed to passenger trains in 1956 and to freight services in 1982.
Profit rose 43% at Burlington in 2010, as freight loads in rail and trucking improved in the U.S. throughout the year, helping to pay for the investment in full.
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Mr Corrigan's victory over the unions in the docks war led to a four-fold increase in productivity per worker at Patrick's freight terminals in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, the three eastern ports that handle the bulk of Australia's trade.
The bill to introduce PTC was signed by George Bush in 2008 only a month after a crash between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train in California, causing 25 deaths and 135 injuries.
One freight hauler in particular has driven well past the rest of the trucking segment.
Gigahertz computers are fed by Web pipes large enough to suck a freight train in a microsecond.
The Salvadoran foreign ministry said unidentified gunmen stopped a freight train in Chahuites, in Oaxaca state, last Thursday.
Freight contracted in 2011, but is reviving in many markets (though not Asia).
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Los Angeles first responders dealt with the same issue when a commuter train collided with a freight train in 2008.
However, its freight volumes in 2012 were almost flat compared to 2011, due to weakness in the coal and agricultural markets.
Unlike joint ventures, drug makers based abroad can include insurance and freight charges in calculating the baseline for their profit margins.
Council leaders have threatened legal action against the government unless it looks again at plans for a rail freight depot in Hertfordshire.
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Yet the two railroads (which enjoy a freight duopoly in the basin) will build them only if they're assured a good return.
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Council leaders have begun legal action against the government after it refused to look again at plans for a rail freight depot in Hertfordshire.
Robert Culliford, the company's senior vice president, insists the brand, bankruptcies and all, still resonates, reminding shippers that the railroad can send their freight anywhere in the country.
The railways' 80% share of the freight market in the 1950s has fallen by half and, some studies suggest, might fall to 25% as the roads improve further.
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And thus the spectacle of slow cross-country trains that should have been allowed to die when Amtrak took over from the freight railroads in 1971 but continue to roll at the cost of vast subsidies with little or no public benefit.
An inevitable increase in freight costs is not going to wipe out the benefits of manufacturing in low-cost countries abroad.
The boom in commodities of all kinds, agriculture, metals, energy is like a global freight train hurtling in see-saw motions across our consciousness.
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This puts the Copenhagen-based shipping company on track to post its first annual ever loss in 2009 after container freight rates and volumes dropped in the global downturn.
When Congress partially deregulated the industry in 1980, there were about 30 freight railroad companies operating in the United States.
More than 300, 000 tonnes of freight was flown in and out of the Castle Donington-based airport during 2010.
In freight, the Japanese have agreed to let Federal Express ferry cargo to Beijing and Shanghai via Japan.
Railroads are an important segment of freight transportation industry in the United States.
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