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The Pass of Brander stone signals, also known as Anderson's Piano, are a series of railway signals situated in the Pass of Brander, between Loch Awe and Taynuilt stations on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line in Scotland. A screen of wires, linked to semaphore signals, is erected on the mountainside alongside the railway track. In the ...
Killington Peak is the second highest summit in the Green Mountains and in the U.S. state of Vermont. It is located east of Rutland in south-central Vermont. Killington Peak is a stop on the Long Trail, which here shares its route with the Appalachian Trail. Traveling southbound on the Trail, it is the last 4,000-foot (1,200 m) peak close to ...
The Torridon Group is a series of Tonian (lower Neoproterozoic) arenaceous and argillaceous sedimentary rocks, which occur extensively in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. These strata are particularly well exposed in the district of upper Loch Torridon , a circumstance which suggested the name Torridon Sandstone , first applied to these ...
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Gifford Woods State Park is located on the east side of the Green Mountains, in the northern part of the town of Killington. It is bounded on the south by United States Route 4, and is bounded on the east by Vermont Route 100, except for a few acres between that road and Kent Pond to the east. The park consists of about 285 acres (115 ha) set ...
Andalusite crystals in Dalradian (Southern Highland Group) metamorphic rock at Boyndie Bay, north-east Scotland. The Dalradian Supergroup (informally and traditionally the Dalradian) is a stratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the lithostratigraphy of the Grampian Highlands of Scotland and in the north and west of Ireland.
Stirling North signal box A number of signal boxes in Scotland are on the Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. Signal boxes house the signalman and equipment that control the railway points and signals. Originally railway signals were controlled from a hut on a platform at junctions, but by the 1860s this had developed into a raised building with a glazed ...
The ancient monument’s “altar stone,” a sandstone rock at its center, likely originated in present-day Scotland, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.