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Because of its dramatic location and the fairytale turrets of its Gothic-Renaissance architecture, the Frontenac is one of the most charmingly bombastic of all the many grand hotels that the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways put up across the country as symbols of their commercial power.
He remained very much an 18th-century man right through the middle of the 19th century: he always wore a wig in public and simply refused to believe that such a thing as the railways could possibly exist.
One of the most impressive sights on your trip will be the rivalry of the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways in action: endless trains of freight wagons, pulled and pushed often by two engines at either end for the tougher stretches, snake through the canyons on opposite banks of the river.
(It takes about 25 minutes from Hiroshima to Miyajima-guchi Station via Japan Railways, and then 10 minutes by ferry to the island. )
The pronunciation of place names has been tending to conform to their written appearance ever since the coming of the railways, and I notice that the letter t is now always sounded in Hertfordshire , as is the letter l in Colchester .