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Factory. A factory, manufacturing plant or production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. They are a critical part of modern economic production, with the majority of the world's goods ...
Ipswich railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line in the East of England, serving the town of Ipswich, Suffolk. It is 68 miles 59 chains (110.6 km) down the line from London Liverpool Street [1] and, on the main line, it is situated between Manningtree to the south and Needham Market to the north. Ipswich is also the terminus of the ...
An integrated schedule is a clock-face schedule that covers not individual lines but all public transport services in a given area. A characteristic of integrated clock-face timetables is that there is more than one central hub. A hub-and-spoke approach is then applied to the whole transport network. Having several services meet at hubs where ...
London, Tilbury and Southend line. The London, Tilbury and Southend line, also known as Essex Thameside, is a commuter railway line on the British railway system. It connects Fenchurch Street station, in central London, with destinations in east London and Essex, including Barking, Upminster, Basildon, Grays, Tilbury, Southend and Shoeburyness ...
Takt time, or simply takt, is a manufacturing term to describe the required product assembly duration that is needed to match the demand.Often confused with cycle time, takt time is a tool used to design work and it measures the average time interval between the start of production of one unit and the start of production of the next unit when items are produced sequentially.
A public transport timetable (also timetable and North American English schedule) is a document setting out information on public transport service times. Both public timetables to assist passengers with planning a trip and internal timetables to inform employees exist. Typically, the timetable will list the times when a service is scheduled to ...
Railway signalling. A Class 66 locomotive (right) is waiting at a red signal while a First Great Western (now Great Western Railway) passenger train (left) crosses its path at a junction. Railway signalling ( BE ), or railroad signaling ( AE ), is a system used to control the movement of railway traffic. Trains move on fixed rails, making them ...
Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1891. Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland, 1882. Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London. They are named after founder George Bradshaw, who produced his first timetable in October 1839.