Developers want to build the college for 14 to 19-year-olds at Swindon's old railway engineering works.

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This standard, originally derived from horse-drawn wagons in British mines, has remained even as railway engineering has undergone 150 years of change.

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China Railway Engineering Corporation is the country's biggest construction enterprise.

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Beijing News on Monday quoted people from the China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group as saying that the pits were dug to make room for a giant crane to lift away the rest of the carriages that remain on the overhead rail tracks.

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The railway was lauded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1909 and it remains a striking homage to the chutzpah of its creators.

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China is even going to the US to become involved in high-speed railway projects, where it can offer the engineering expertise and financing to Americans.

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Liam Bradley, chairman of the Saltash Waterfront Residents Association, called the cross, near the famous Brunel railway bridge, a "modern feat of engineering to be proud of".

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Ms Crowther said drivers were being briefed to report "suspicious activity" on the network amid evidence that thieves were pretending to be engineering staff in order to gain access to the railway.

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"It's a huge, complex engineering project, " said Anastasia Chernova, a spokeswoman for the Sochi Department of Railway Construction.

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Modernity, they proudly and not uncontroversially say, has arrived in this backward region in the form of an engineering miracle that has laid tracks on land gripped year-round by ice, a railway line at higher altitude than any other in the world.

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