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The world's first passenger railway, the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (SMR), had demonstrated the power of rails to carry passengers but a street tramway was not considered until after the Tramways Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 78) when a group of business men formed the Swansea Tramways Company. [1] Problems with raising capital and the need for ...
Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay was a proposed tidal lagoon power plant that was to be constructed in Swansea Bay off the south coast of Wales, United Kingdom.Development consent was granted by the UK government in June 2015, and in June 2018 the Welsh Government approved the plan and offered to invest £200 million; however, later that month the UK government withdrew its support on value-for-money ...
The Cribarth Disturbance is one of the southernmost geological features within Britain which can be described as following the Caledonoid trend. The phrase describes a suite of major northeast-southwest oriented geological structures associated with the closure of the former Iapetus Ocean in the middle Palaeozoic Era and giving rise to the Caledonian Orogeny or mountain-building period.
Swansea (/ ˈ s w ɒ n z i / SWON-zee; Welsh: Abertawe [abɛrˈtawɛ]) is a coastal city and the second-largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Swansea (Welsh: Dinas a Sir Abertawe). [4] The city is the twenty-fifth largest in the United Kingdom.
Swansea barrage. The Swansea barrage (or the Tawe barrage) is a structure near the mouth of the River Tawe in Swansea, Wales. It was completed in 1992, creating a marina which extended the leisure boat facilities already being offered by the former South Dock. [1] The barrage structure includes a boat lock, spillway, fish pass and generator turbine
That means a higher risk of gallstones, gallbladder inflammation, and bile duct problems, according to a review in JAMA Internal Medicine. Gallstones come with sudden, intense, worsening pain in ...
Another factor driving up egg prices: a persistent shortage of truck drivers in the U.S. — a mounting problem as more drivers retire. And with fewer drivers to transport eggs to retailers ...
The Swansea Bay and West Wales Metro, or simply the Swansea Bay Metro (Welsh: Metro Bae Abertawe; originally proposed as the South West Wales Metro) is a proposed enhancement of railways, buses and active travel around the Swansea Bay and South West Wales (or just West Wales) areas of South Wales. [1] The project could take up to 10 years to ...