Author: Ms. R.

Umi-Shibaura Station is famed for a few things, none of them quite ordinary. For one, no other train station in Japan is as close to the sea as this one. Built right above the waters of the Keihin Canal, the station’s single platform provides spectacular views of Tokyo Bay. It’s so scenic that the Ministry of Transport listed it as one of the 100 Greatest Stations in Kanto, and many people visit the location every New Year’s Eve to……

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Buried beneath the river bed of the River Tyne is a pedestrian and cyclist tunnel that was built to provide a vital link between the communities on either side of the river. Access to these tunnels is via the longest wooden escalator in the world. The Tyne Cyclist and Pedestrian Tunnels was an ambitious engineering project which involved miners operating in compressed air to excavate the tunnels. The project cost £833,000 to construct and was completed in 1951. The……

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The word Kilroot is derived from the Irish words “Cill Ruaidh,” meaning “church of the red” or “the red church.” This name derived from the presence of a red-brown subsoil noted in the area due to the high amounts of Mercia Mudstone, but it has also been suggested that it could have derived from a bloody battle that occurred in the area during 1199. The area is believed to have been one of the earliest Christian sites in the……

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In a northeastern neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, a small coffeehouse stands covered with pictures of bison. For centuries here, on the land of the Cowlitz, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and Clackamas peoples, there have been no bison. But Bison Coffeehouse still pays tribute to the animal that sustained Native American communities across the country. Inside, Native American art adorns the space, centered around a mounted buffalo head. While the cafe’s decor honors the bison, the business itself is……

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In the fall of 1871, the Mahwah Train Station was constructed. The new building helped the small town of Mahwah grow and to prosper over the years. After spending much of its life as a station, the former depot was utilized as a storage facility. Later, the station was moved to its current location and was transformed into The Old Station Museum in 1967. It later became known as the Mahwah Museum.  Inside, visitors will find displays of various objects……

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Built in 1816 to carry the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal, the Edstone Aqueduct is the longest canal aqueduct in England (although there are longer ones in both Scotland and Wales and a number of higher ones too). It is 475 feet long and 33 feet high at its highest point. The engineer was William Whitmore. It crosses a minor road, a stream, a live railway line (formerly the Birmingham, North Warwickshire and Stratford Railway) and a disused railway line (the former……

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This old Baldwin locomotive once served the local lumber industry, hauling huge tree trunks from the forest to the mills. Constructed in Pennsylvania in 1911, the train came to Arizona in 1917 when it was purchased by the Arizona Lumber and Timber Company. It passed through various owners until it reached The Stone Forest Company, which folded in 1993. A group of residents, led by Malcomb Mackay, maintained fond memories of the locomotive and raised funds to purchase and……

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Old Delhi is bursting with history and with modern-day activity. Built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in the mid-1600s as a walled city called Shahjahanabad, it served as the capital’s empire from then until the British Raj gained supremacy in 1857. Though India’s current center of government rests a few miles south in New Delhi, Old Delhi has stood the test of time as a center of commerce.  The street of Khari Baoli might be the most lively and……

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