Traffic
The NER carried a larger tonnage of mineral and coal traffic than any other principal railway.
The NER was a partner (with the North British and the Great Northern Railway) in the East Coast Joint Stock operation from 1860.
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Famous quotes containing the word traffic:
“The two hours’ traffic of our stage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Poems stirred
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“If you don’t have a policeman to stop traffic and let you walk across the street like you are somebody, how are you going to know you are somebody?”
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