Swansea railway station serves the city of Swansea, south Wales. It is 216 miles 7 chains measured from London Paddington on the National Rail network, it is the fourth-busiest station in Wales. The station opened in 1850, it was built by the South Wales Railway, which amalgamated with the Great Western Railway in 1863, but it was not on the South Wales Railway main line, planned to connect London with the port of Fishguard, Swansea passengers had to change at Landore, two miles to the north until at least 1879. The station has been renovated and extended several times in its lifetime - most notably in the 1880s, when the stone-built office block facing High Street, on the west side of the station, was added, in 1925-7 when the platforms were lengthened; the present-day frontage block, facing Ivey Place, was completed in 1934. Nothing now remains of the original wooden station with galvanised iron roof; the majority of the rebuilt station remains intact. The umbrella-type platform roofing which replaced the 1880s train-sheds in the 1920s is intact although the canopy on platform 4 has been shortened.

The number of platforms was reduced from five to four in 1973 under British Rail when the old Platform 1 was eliminated, along with the loading bays and fish dock that once stood beyond it. The remaining platforms were renumbered at the same time, so that what were platforms 2 to 5 are now platforms 1 to 4, respectively. On the east side of the station there was a connecting line which bypassed the platforms and ran at one time to coal tips on the North Dock and on to a junction with the high-level line from Eastern Depot to Victoria station. Part of the route of this line, alongside the station itself, is now a staff car park and the remainder, carried on viaducts alongside the Strand, has been obliterated by modern development. High Street goods station was on the west side of the line, just north of the passenger station; the site has been cleared and used for housing and the dedicated bus road that runs from the Landore park-and-ride facility into the city centre. On the opposite side of the line were extensive carriage sidings, large areas of which are, as of 2014, being redeveloped as the Hitachi IEP rail service depot.

There was great competition between the different railway companies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Swansea had seven stations in 1895, owned by five different railway companies: High Street, St Thomas, East Dock, Riverside and Swansea Bay, Rutland Street. Only High Street now remains in the city centre. To the east, trains operate along the South Wales Main Line. Swansea is a western terminus for Great Western Railway InterCity 125 services to London Paddington that do not terminate at Cardiff Central, with the majority of local train services west of Swansea timed to connect with London services. Transport for Wales provides the Swanline service to Cardiff Central, services to Manchester Piccadilly. To the west, Transport for Wales trains run along the West Wales line to Carmarthen and to Pembroke Dock, Milford Haven or Fishguard Harbour. Certain services to Fishguard Harbour connect with the Stena Line ferry to Rosslare Europort in Ireland. Swansea is the eastern terminus for a few of the services from West Wales.

Services on the Heart of Wales line between Llanelli and Shrewsbury start from Swansea. Some of Transport for Wales' boat trains to and from Fishguard Harbour commence at Swansea; these connect with the Stena Line ferry to Rosslare Europort in Ireland with a daily morning and evening service in both directions. This route has been in existence since 1906; the station is a terminus, at the end of a short branch off the South Wales Main Line and the West Wales line, so that all through passenger trains must either reverse at Swansea or omit calling there. In practice all passenger services do call there; the station has four platforms. Great Western Railway trains from London enter the station with the standard-class carriages leading, use platform 2; the platforms are covered for part of their length. Until January 2004, the mail train to London was a regular service from the station. In February 2013, Swansea station won the "Wales’ Best Staffed Train Station" award, supported by Keep Wales Tidy.

In May 2013, Swansea station was named "International Station of the Year" and won the "Best Large Station" award at the International Station Awards. The ticket office is open here each day, with self-service ticket machines provided for use when the ticket office is closed and for collecting pre-paid tickets. A range of other amenities are available, including toilets, retail outlets, waiting rooms, ATM, payphone and the local Tourist Information Office. Bus stops and a taxi rank are located outside the entrance. Train running information is offered via timetable posters, digital CIS displays and automated announcements. Step-free access is available to all platforms. Swansea has four platforms, numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. Platforms are used for the same services, but can change i

This is a list of women on death row in the United States. The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths. Due to this fluctuation as well as lag and inconsistencies in inmate reporting procedures across jurisdictions, the information in this article may be out of date; the time on death row counter starts on the day. It does not count time incarcerated prior to sentencing nor does it discount time spent in prison off death row in cases where death sentences were overturned before being reinstated. List of women executed in the United States since 1976 Sex differences in crime List of death row inmates by state and country FindLaw documentation of Nathan Dunlap's appeal to the Supreme Court of Colorado

The 2010 Open GDF Suez was a women's professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was a Premier tournament on the 2010 WTA Tour, it took place at Stade Pierre de Coubertin in Paris, France from February 8 through February 14, 2010. The top two seeds were Elena Dementieva, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in singles and a 2009 Wimbledon semifinalist and Flavia Pennetta. Participating in the tournament were Yanina Wickmayer, home favourite Aravane Rezaï, Shahar Pe'er, Alizé Cornet. Serena Williams, the 2010 Australian Open singles champion withdrew before the main draw was released. 1 Rankings as of February 1, 2010. The following players received wildcards into the main draw: Julie Coin Petra Martić Flavia PennettaThe following players received entry from the qualifying draw: Vesna Manasieva Ioana Raluca Olaru Evgeniya Rodina Karolina Šprem Elena Dementieva def. Lucie Šafářová, 6–7, 6–1, 6–4 It was Dementieva's second title of the year and sixteenth of her career, it was Dementieva's last career title after her retirement at the end of the year.

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Trammell Crow Company is a real estate development and property management company. It has been a subsidiary of CBRE Group since 2006; the company was founded by Trammell Crow in 1948. In October 2005, the company merged its St. Louis business with that of Inc.. In April 2006, the company acquired Brandon Wiant Converse, a boutique commercial real estate services firm in Cleveland, Ohio. In June 2006, the company announced. In 2010, the company moved its headquarters from Trammell Crow Center to 2100 McKinney Ave. In June 2016, the company acquired 29 acres from the Port of Portland for $7.8 million. In October 2019, Trammel Crow Company acquired London, UK-based Telford Homes in a £267m deal

The white-thighed swallow is a species of bird in the family Hirundinidae. Its genus, Neochelidon, is monotypic, it is found in Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Peru and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests. Chesser, R. T.. "Fifty-seventh Supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds". The Auk. 133: 544–560. Doi:10.1642/AUK-16-77.1. Sheldon, F. H.. A.. G.. W.. "Phylogeny of swallows estimated from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequencing". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 35: 254–270. Doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2004.11.008. PMID 15737595. Stiles, F. Gary. "Proposal 314: Revise the generic limits of Neotropical swallows". South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 January 2017

WOSTEP, the Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Educational Program, is an internationally recognized professional qualification in the maintenance and care of fine-quality watches. It was devised by the Centre Suisse de Formation et de Perfectionnement Horloger and is sponsored by manufacturers and retailers within the horological industry in Switzerland. During the 1960s, at the request of the U. S. Government, the Swiss government created what would evolve into WOSTEP- Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH, it was designed to train American watchmakers in techniques of watchmaking that developed in Geneva and the Jura mountains as from the 16th Century. It is important to understand that at the time of the founding of Wostep, America was losing its title as "world's largest watch producer" to the Soviet Union; as American watch companies continued to slide into oblivion after the end of World War II, some were able to update by purchasing movements from Swiss companies establishing their own subsidiaries in Switzerland, to keep them going another 10–20 years before folding in the U.

S. It was this reason that the U. S. requested some sort of formalized training for its best watchmakers. There had always been small imports of ultra-fine Swiss watches, but post World War II the number of watches imported either as partial or complete watches grew exponentially; these "modern" watch movements were decidedly different from the American companies' products, which grew out of 100 years of manufacturing. American manufacturers were not able to develop new products and new methods to compete and were destroyed in record time; the Federation developed an 11-month training program in which a watchmaker was flown to Neuchâtel and trained by any one of many talented instructors that worked at WOSTEP over the years. Recent changes in structure have assured the survival of WOSTEP as a foundation with a beautiful lakefront chateau converted to the school building. With the retirement of long-time director Antoine Simonin and his wife, the next generation has taken the reins and continues to develop courses for full training used throughout the world at their WOSTEP-Partnership Schools.

The school provides a variety of industry-specific training to companies and practicing watchmakers. Official website Simonin Publishers Institute of Swiss Watchmakers