The Site Today
The level crossing at Hixon was replaced by a bridge in 2002. Part of the airfield is still in use as an industrial estate, as well as an aircraft storage facility.
Read more about this topic: Hixon Rail Crash
Famous quotes containing the words site and/or today:
“That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is. When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siècle. What holds humanity together today is the denial of what the human race has in common.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)
Related Phrases
Related Words