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Hong Kong Disneyland
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Hong Kong Disneyland is a theme park located on reclaimed land in Pennys Bay, Lantau Island. It is the first theme park located inside the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and it is, together with Ocean Park Hong Kong, one of the two large theme parks in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Disneyland opened to visitors on Monday,12 September 2005 at 13,00 HKT, for instance, a bend was put in a walkway near the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort entrance so good qi energy wouldnt flow into the South China Sea. The park consists of seven themed areas, Main Street, U. S. A, Fantasyland, Adventureland, Tomorrowland, Grizzly Gulch, Mystic Point, and Toy Story Land. The theme parks cast members speak Cantonese, English, and Mandarin, guide maps are printed in traditional and simplified Chinese as well as English, Japanese, Thai, Malay and Indonesian. The park has a capacity of 34,000 visitors — the fewest of all Disneyland parks. The park attracted 5.2 million visitors in its first year, visitor numbers fell 20% in the second year to 4 million, inciting criticisms from local legislators. However, the park attendance jumped by 8% in the third year, in 2009, the park attendance again increased by 2% to 4.8 million visitors. The attendance continued to surge and received 5.23 million guests in the 2009/2010 fiscal year, since the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, the theme park has hosted over 25 million guests. According to AECOM and TEA, Hong Kong Disneyland is the 13th most visited park in the world in 2013. The park also turned a net profit of HK$109 million for the year ended 29 September 2012, Hong Kong Disneyland currently occupies 27.5186 hectares and hosts 7.92 million to 8.92 million visitors annually. The park capacity will increase to handle up to 10 million visitors annually over a 15-year expansion period, to all who come to this happy place, welcome. Many years ago, Walt Disney introduced the world to enchanted realms of fantasy and adventure, yesterday and tomorrow, today that spirit of imagination and discovery comes to life in Hong Kong. Pennys Bay was filled in to land for the construction of Hong Kong Disneyland. The bay was previously undeveloped except for the Cheoy Lee Shipyard, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Tung Chee Hwa was instrumental in introducing the Disneyland project to Hong Kong. When the SARS epidemic devastated the economy in 2003, it was hoped that the new Disneyland would help boost confidence in Hong Kongs tourism industry. Hong Kong Disneyland had one of the shortest construction periods of any Disneyland-style theme park, on 12 January 2003, more than 400 guests celebrated the groundbreaking of Hong Kong Disneyland after the finishing of land reclamation in Pennys Bay. On 23 September 2004, a special castle topping ceremony was held in the park to commemorate the placing of the tallest turret on Sleeping Beauty Castle, Beijing declared its significant support by sending Zeng Qinghong as Vice President of the Peoples Republic of China
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Disneyland
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Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17,1955. It is the theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. It was originally the attraction on the property, its name was changed to Disneyland Park to distinguish it from the expanding complex in the 1990s. Walt Disney came up with the concept of Disneyland after visiting various amusement parks with his daughters in the 1930s and 1940s. He initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit, however, after hiring a consultant to help him determine an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a 160-acre site near Anaheim in 1953. Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17,1955. Opened in 2001, Disney California Adventure Park was built on the site of Disneylands original parking lot, Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with over 650 million guests since it opened. In 2013, the park hosted approximately 16.2 million guests, according to a March 2005 Disney report,65,700 jobs are supported by the Disneyland Resort, including about 20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees. To all who come to this place, Welcome. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the facts that have created America, with the hope that it will be a source of joy. The concept for Disneyland began when Walt Disney was visiting Griffith Park in Los Angeles with his daughters Diane and Sharon. While watching them ride the merry-go-round, he came up with the idea of a place where adults and their children could go and have fun together and he may have also been influenced by his fathers memories of the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago. Another likely influence was Benton Harbor, Michigans nationally famous House of Davids Eden Springs Park, Disney visited the park and ultimately bought one of the older miniature trains originally used there, the colony had the largest miniature railway setup in the world at the time. His ideas evolved to a play park with a boat ride. The initial concept, the Mickey Mouse Park, started with an 8-acre plot across Riverside Drive and his designers began working on concepts, though the project grew much larger than the land could hold. Disney hired Harrison Price from Stanford Research Institute to gauge the proper area to locate the theme based on the areas potential growth. Based on Prices analysis, Disney acquired 160 acres of groves and walnut trees in Anaheim
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Disneyland Railroad
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Its route is 1.2 miles in length and encircles the vast majority of the park, with stations in the Main Street, U. S. A. New Orleans Square, Mickeys Toontown, and Tomorrowland sections, the rail line, which was built by WED Enterprises, is operated with two steam locomotives built by WED Enterprises and three historic steam locomotives originally built by Baldwin Locomotive Works. Its trains take around eighteen minutes to complete a trip on its main line when three trains are running and twenty minutes when four trains are running. A minimum of two trains and a maximum of four trains are in daily, and three trains are in service on a typical day. The Disneyland Railroad opened to the public for the first time on July 17,1955, with an estimated 6.6 million passengers served each year, the DRR has become one of the worlds most popular steam-powered railroads. The DRR temporarily closed on January 11,2016 to accommodate the construction of Star Wars Land and is scheduled to reopen in summer 2017, Walt Disney, the creator of the concepts for Disneyland and the Disneyland Railroad, always had a strong fondness for trains. As a teenager, he obtained a job as a butcher on the Missouri Pacific Railway, selling various products to train passengers including newspapers, candy. Starting in late 1947, he began to develop an interest in model trains after purchasing several Lionel train sets,173, a steam locomotive rebuilt by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1872. The Lilly Belle first ran on the Carolwood Pacific Railroad on May 7,1950, Broggie, believing that there would be limited visitor capacity for the attraction, recommended to Disney that he make the train bigger in scale. After financing for Disneyland was secured and all of the parcels of land at the Anaheim site were purchased, construction of the park, the DRR was known by that name until September 30,1974 when the AT&SF Railways sponsorship ended. The No.2 locomotive would pull six 1890s-style passenger cars designed by Bob Gurr, consisting of a car, four coaches. The No.1 locomotive would pull six freight cars consisting of three cars, two gondolas, and a caboose. Both locomotives were designed to run on oil for fuel to generate steam. The two original DRR trains cost over US$240,000 to build, with the two locomotives costing over US$40,000 each. Before the opening of Disneyland, a station in the Main Street, U. S. A. section, besides the depot building, the DRRs functioning water tower was also built at Frontierland Station. S. Vilmer designed the operations of the DRR in such a way that each of its two trains would be assigned to a station on the rail line, making only complete round trips possible. The Retlaw 1 passenger train pulled by the No.2 locomotive only serviced Main Street, Station while the Retlaw 2 freight train pulled by the No. The first test run of the DRRs trains along the length of its route occurred on July 10,1955
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Disneyland Railroad (Paris)
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Its route is 7,150 feet in length and is used by park guests for transportation to other areas of the park, or simply for the experience of The Grand Circle Tour. Main Street Station is seen upon entering Disneyland Park, in Main Street, from there, guests can start their journey around the park, with a recorded narration commenting on visited landscapes. Trains first cross a diorama recreation of the Grand Canyon, complete with wild animals, as they arrive in Frontierland, travelling behind the Rivers of the Far West, they first stop in Frontierland Depot. Then trains travel through Adventureland, allowing guests to discover the Temple of Peril, at Fantasyland Station, located in the British part of Fantasyland, guests are given a whole view on the land, and then trains even venture through the facade of Its a Small World. Finally, in Discoveryland, trains stop above Star Tours and Captain EO, the journey comes to an end while returning to Main Street. The Disneyland Railroad operates four trains pulled by 4-4-0 steam locomotives built by H. P, phillips Company in 1992, and Severn Lamb in 1993. Cody, Named for William Frederick Cody, otherwise known as Buffalo Bill, note the antlers on the headlamp, he was a western show star. The cars are named after Western cities, Silverton, Durango, Denver, Wichita, Holliday, Named for Cyrus Kurtz Holliday, founder of the Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in 1859. Since this train is a train from the 19th century, its cars are named after vacation places, Coney Island, Atlantic City, Chesapeake, Long Island. The Anaheim version of the railroad has a locomotive also called C. K, Holliday, but it is No.1. 3, G. Washington, Its colors are blue, white, on its headlamp, it has pictures of George Washington and Marquis de Lafayette. With a wood-colored cab, this is the most ornate of all 4 locomotives and its cars names are references to places where Washington achieved famous events, Mt. Vernon, Boston, Philadelphia, Yorktown and Valley Forge. The cars are named after Californian cities, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Diego, on January 4,2013, No.1 W. F. Cody approached the Frontierland station with its train, but then a bolt snapped between the first and second coach and it causes the front coach to uncouple from the other four coaches. The three rear coaches struck the front coach when the engine stopped at the station and four people were injured and they were taken to hospital and later discharged
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Rail transport
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Rail transport is a means of conveyance of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks. It is also referred to as train transport. In contrast to road transport, where vehicles run on a flat surface. Tracks usually consist of rails, installed on ties and ballast, on which the rolling stock, usually fitted with metal wheels. Other variations are possible, such as slab track, where the rails are fastened to a concrete foundation resting on a prepared subsurface. Rolling stock in a transport system generally encounters lower frictional resistance than road vehicles, so passenger. The operation is carried out by a company, providing transport between train stations or freight customer facilities. Power is provided by locomotives which either draw electric power from a railway system or produce their own power. Most tracks are accompanied by a signalling system, Railways are a safe land transport system when compared to other forms of transport. The oldest, man-hauled railways date back to the 6th century BC, with Periander, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, Rail transport blossomed after the British development of the steam locomotive as a viable source of power in the 19th centuries. With steam engines, one could construct mainline railways, which were a key component of the Industrial Revolution, also, railways reduced the costs of shipping, and allowed for fewer lost goods, compared with water transport, which faced occasional sinking of ships. The change from canals to railways allowed for markets in which prices varied very little from city to city. In the 1880s, electrified trains were introduced, and also the first tramways, starting during the 1940s, the non-electrified railways in most countries had their steam locomotives replaced by diesel-electric locomotives, with the process being almost complete by 2000. During the 1960s, electrified high-speed railway systems were introduced in Japan, other forms of guided ground transport outside the traditional railway definitions, such as monorail or maglev, have been tried but have seen limited use. The history of the growth, decline and restoration to use of transport can be divided up into several discrete periods defined by the principal means of motive power used. The earliest evidence of a railway was a 6-kilometre Diolkos wagonway, trucks pushed by slaves ran in grooves in limestone, which provided the track element. The Diolkos operated for over 600 years, Railways began reappearing in Europe after the Dark Ages. The earliest known record of a railway in Europe from this period is a window in the Minster of Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany
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Passenger car (rail)
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A passenger car is a piece of railway rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a car, baggage, dining, railway post office. Up until about the end of the 19th century, most passenger cars were constructed of wood, the first passenger trains did not travel very far, but they were able to haul many more passengers for a longer distance than any wagons pulled by horses. As railways were first constructed in England, so too were the first passenger cars, one of the early coach designs was the Stanhope. It featured a roof and small holes in the floor for drainage when it rained, the only problem with this design is that the passengers were expected to stand for their entire trip. The first passenger cars in the United States resembled stagecoaches and they were short, often less than 10 ft long and had two axles. British railways had a start on American railroads, with the first bed-carriage being built there as early as 1838 for use on the London and Birmingham Railway. Britains early sleepers, when made up for sleeping, extended the foot of the bed into a section at the end of the carriage. The cars were too short to allow more than two or three beds to be positioned end to end. Britains Royal Mail commissioned and built the first Travelling Post Office cars in the late 1840s as well. These cars resembled coaches in their short wheelbase and exterior design, when not in use, the hook would swivel down against the side of the car to prevent it from catching obstacles. As locomotive technology progressed in the century, trains grew in length. Passenger cars, particularly in America, grew along with them, first getting longer with the addition of a second truck, early American sleeping cars were not compartmented, but by the end of the 19th century they were. The compartments in the sleepers were accessed from a side hall running the length of the cars. Many American passenger trains, particularly the long ones, included a car at the end of the train called an observation car. Until about the 1930s, these had a platform at the rear. These evolved into the end car, usually with a rounded end which was still called an observation car. The interiors of observation cars varied, many had special chairs and tables
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Narrow-gauge railway
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A narrow-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the 1,435 mm of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow-gauge railways are between 600 mm and 1,067 mm, narrow-gauge railways also have specialized use in mines and other environments where a very small structure gauge makes a very small loading gauge necessary. Narrow-gauge railways also have general applications. Many narrow-gauge street tramways are used, particularly in Europe, where 1,000 mm metre gauge tramways are common, the earliest recorded railway is shown in the De re metallica of 1556, which shows a mine in Bohemia with a railway of about 2 ft gauge. During the 16th century, railways were mainly restricted to hand-pushed narrow-gauge lines in mines throughout Europe, during the 17th century, mine railways were extended to provide transportation above ground. These lines were industrial, connecting mines with nearby transportation points and these railways were usually built to the same narrow gauge as the mine railways from which they developed. The worlds first steam locomotive on rails, built in 1802 by Richard Trevithick for the Coalbrookdale Company, during the 1820s and 1830s, a number of industrial narrow-gauge railways in the United Kingdom used steam locomotives. In 1842, the first narrow-gauge steam locomotive outside the UK was built for the 1,100 mm gauge Antwerp-Ghent Railway in Belgium, historically, many narrow-gauge railways were built as part of specific industrial enterprises and were primarily industrial railways rather than general carriers. Some common uses for these industrial narrow-gauge railways were mining, logging, construction, tunnelling, quarrying, extensive narrow-gauge networks were constructed in many parts of the world for these purposes. For example, mountain logging operations in the 19th century often used narrow-gauge railways to transport logs from mill sites to market, significant sugarcane railways still operate in Cuba, Fiji, Java, the Philippines, and Queensland. Narrow-gauge railway equipment remains in use for the construction of tunnels. Extensive narrow-gauge railway systems served the front-line trenches of both sides in World War I and they were a short-lived military application, and after the end of the war, the surplus equipment from these created a small boom in narrow gauge railway building in Europe. Narrow-gauge railways usually cost less to build because they are lighter in construction, using smaller cars and locomotives, as well as smaller bridges, smaller tunnels. Narrow gauge is often used in mountainous terrain, where the savings in civil engineering work can be substantial. It is also used in populated areas where the potential demand is too low for broader gauge railways to be economically viable. This is the case in some of Australia and most of Southern Africa, the use of such railways has almost vanished due to the capabilities of modern trucks. In many countries, narrow gauge railways were built as feeder or branch lines to feed traffic to more important standard gauge lines, the choice was often not between a narrow-gauge railway and a standard gauge one, but between a narrow-gauge railway and none at all. Some bulk commodities, such as coal, ore, and gravel, can be transshipped, but this still incurs time penalties
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Main Street, U.S.A.
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Main Street, U. S. A. is the first themed land inside the main entrance of the many Disneyland-style parks run by The Walt Disney Company around the world. Each Main Street, U. S. A. has a station above the entrance. At Disneyland Park, Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland, Sleeping Beauty Castle stands in the distance beyond the end of the street, the area near here is referred to as Town Square, most of the day, there are characters available for a meet and greet here. At the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland, Cinderella Castle stands at the end, Town Square is home to City Hall, in which the Guest Relations office is located. Largely they appear as fictional businesses, and they refer to a hobby or interest that the person honored. Ub Iwerkss window, for example, refers to his prowess with cameras, for Disneylands 50th anniversary, on July 17,2005, a first-story window on each Main Street was unveiled with a dedication to all the cast members who had worked for Disney throughout the years. The streets are paved with resilient asphalt to prevent aching of feet, in July 2015, Disneyland expanded their Main Street U. S. A. with a Main Street Arcade in honor of their 60th anniversary. Inspired by Walt Disneys hometown of Marceline, Missouri, Main Street, according to Harper Goff, who worked on Main Street, U. S. A. with Walt, he showed Walt some photos of his childhood home of Fort Collins, Colorado. Walt liked the look, and so many of the features of the town were incorporated into Main Street, U. S. A. Another significant source of inspiration for the Main Street, U. S. A. concept came from the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Walt Disney said, For those of us who remember the carefree time it recreates, Main Street will bring back happy memories. For younger visitors, it is an adventure in turning back the calendar to the days of their grandfathers youth, above the firehouse in Town Square at Disneyland is Walt Disneys personal apartment, fully furnished but off-limits to the public. A lamp is burning in the front window as a tribute to his memory. It is largely decorated for both Halloween and Christmas, there is a 60-foot-tall Christmas tree during Christmas Time, and there is a 16-foot-high Mickey Mouse jack-o-lantern on Halloween Time, with additional pumpkin ears. The Main Street Opera House in Town Square is the oldest building in Disneyland and it formerly served as the parks lumber mill between 1955 and 1961. The cannons that are displayed in the center of the square were used by the French army during the 1800s, the gas lamps that line the street originally came from Baltimore and were bought for $.03 a pound. Partners, sculpted by Blaine Gibson, was added in 1993, during the Halloween season, pumpkin busts for each themed land in the park, except Main Street, are seen around Partners. It is listed as a street in the Orange County Thomas Guide. The Disney Gallery Disneyland Railroad The Disneyland Story presenting Great Moments with Mr and this is most noticeable in the four corners area in the middle of Main Street where each of the four corner buildings represents a different architectural style
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Adventureland (Disney)
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Adventureland is one of the themed lands at the many Disneyland-style theme parks run by the Walt Disney Company around the world. It is themed to resemble the remote jungles in Africa, Asia, South America, to create a land that would make this dream reality, said Walt Disney, We pictured ourselves far from civilization, in the remote jungles of Asia and Africa. 26 August 2009 -15 October 2016 Adventureland provides a 1950s view of exotic adventure, lush vegetation resembles jungles while elements of the other surround the visitor. Doris explains Adventureland as, a pastiche of imaginary colonial spaces, conflated within the green, disneylands Adventureland was originally envisioned as True-Life Adventureland, and was to be based on Walts famous award winning nature documentaries on Africa and Asia. Adventureland opened with the Jungle Cruise as its attraction, until the Swiss Family Treehouse was added years later. With the groundbreaking technology of audio animatronics Walt Disneys Enchanted Tiki Room was added nearby the lands entry bridge, oceanic Arts also created the series of tribal masks that now line the entry bridge. In 1999, the Swiss Family Treehouse was transformed into Tarzans Treehouse, Adventureland has remained the same since, until 2008 with the former summer event, Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden Mysteries. The original Polynesian motif is still visible with the prominence of jungle surrounding the Swiss Family Treehouse, the Magic Carpets of Aladdin attraction is unique to this version of Adventureland, based on New Orleans Square at Disneyland, which features Pirates of the Caribbean. Main Street, U. S. A. s and Liberty Squares buildings fade into New Orleans and it features a unique ride - Western River Railroad - and a different version of Walt Disneys Enchanted Tiki Room, minus the Walt Disney tag, with a more Hawaiian feel. It features a sub-land, similar to the Magic Kingdom Adventureland, based on New Orleans Square at Disneyland, world Bazaars buildings fade into New Orleans. The Enchanted Tiki Room, Stitch Presents Aloha e Komo Mai, Jungle Cruise Lilos Luau & Fun Mickey & Minnies Polynesian Paradise Minnie Oh. Minnie Pirates of the Caribbean Swiss Family Treehouse Western River Railroad Walt Disneys Enchanted Tiki Room The Enchanted Tiki Room, Now Playing Get the Fever. It features four themed areas, The first, known as Adventureland Bazar, is a recreation of a city from the 1001 Arabian Nights. In 1993, the attraction Le Passage Enchanté dAladdin opened in this very area, the concept of this city eventually reached overseas resorts. The second part of Adventureland has a more African appearance, and is composed of shops. A third themed area represents Asian mysterious jungles, the last part, and the biggest, is a Caribbean area, covering most of the surface of Adventureland. It features the ride Pirates of the Caribbean and Adventure Isle and this Adventureland presented some construction problems, mainly due to the unsuitable local climate. Growing exotic jungles in a place where winters could be harsh was a tough task and this is also the reason why there is no Jungle Cruise ride, since most animatronics animals would have been exposed to this weather
