Buckinghamshire, 44 miles (71 km) from London. It was built by the
Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway after pressure from the 3rd Duke of
Buckingham to route the railway near his home. It connected with the
Brill Tramway, which carried goods from the duke's estates and
passengers from Brill, and was heavily used despite its geographical
isolation. Both lines were absorbed in 1891 by the Metropolitan Railway
(MR), which operated from Aylesbury to London. When the Great Central
Railway from the north of England opened in 1899, Quainton Road became a
significant junction. The MR became part of the London Passenger
Transport Board's London Underground in 1933. The Brill Tramway was
closed in 1935, and Underground trains were withdrawn north of Aylesbury
after 1936. Quainton Road closed to passengers in 1963 and to goods in
1966. In 1969 the Quainton Road Society was formed; it restored and
reopened the station as the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. Freight
trains still use the line, and passenger trains call for special events.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quainton_Road_railway_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
557:
A large earthquake severely damaged the city of Constantinople.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/557_Constantinople_earthquake>
1836:
The Toledo War, the mostly bloodless boundary dispute between
Ohio and the adjoining Territory of Michigan, unofficially ended with a
resolution passed by the controversial "Frostbitten Convention".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War>
1913:
Haruna, the fourth and last ship of the Kongō-class, was
launched, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during
World War I and World War II.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Haruna>
1994:
Construction on the Three Gorges Dam began on the Yangtze River
in China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam>
2004:
Cuba and Venezuela founded the Alliance for the Americas, an
intergovernmental organization dedicated to the integration of Latin
American and Caribbean nations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALBA>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
instar:
1. Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an
arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity:
the hopper was placed in a box in its first instar.
2. An arthropod at a specified one of these stages: first and second
instars of this species are more susceptible to H. bacteriophora than
later instars.
3. A stage in development: "photographs of the landlady's children in all
their instars" (Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/instar>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
At sea on a ship in a thunderstorm on the very night the Christ
was born a sailor heard from overhead a mighty voice cry "Pan is Dead!"
So follow Christ as best you can Pan is dead — Long live Pan!
--Mike Scott
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mike_Scott_(musician)>
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