Grand Junction
Encyclopedia
Grand Junction is the name of several places:
United States
United Kingdom
Australia
A grand union
is a railway junction
where four two-track railway lines meet.
United States
- Grand Junction, ColoradoGrand Junction, ColoradoThe City of Grand Junction is the largest city in western Colorado. It is a city with a council–manager government form that is the county seat and the most populous city of Mesa County, Colorado, United States. Grand Junction is situated west-southwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. As...
- Grand Junction, IowaGrand Junction, IowaGrand Junction is a city in Greene County, Iowa, United States. The population was 964 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Grand Junction is located at ....
- Grand Junction, Michigan
- Grand Junction, TennesseeGrand Junction, TennesseeGrand Junction is a city in Fayette and Hardeman counties in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The population was 301 at the 2000 census, and is currently 321. Grand Junction runs along Tennessee State Route 57, and is bordered to the west by Tennessee State Route 18 . Approximately ten miles to the...
- The Grand Junction RailroadGrand Junction RailroadThe Grand Junction Railroad is an 8.55-mile long railroad in the Boston, Massachusetts area, connecting the railroads heading west and north from Boston...
in the Boston, Massachusetts area
United Kingdom
- Grand Junction RailwayGrand Junction RailwayThe Grand Junction Railway was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was merged into the London and North Western Railway...
- Grand Junction, Birmingham, EnglandGrand Junction, Birmingham, EnglandThis Grand Junction is a railway junction in Birmingham, England. It is situated less than one mile east of Birmingham New Street and is thus one of the busiest railway junctions in the UK . It is the junction between the former LNWR line and the Midland Railway's lines to Bristol and Derby....
Australia
- Grand Junction Road, a major road which travels east-west through Adelaide, South Australia
A grand union
Grand union
A grand union is a rail track junction where two double-track railway lines cross at grade, often in a street intersection or crossroads. A total of sixteen railroad switches allow streetcars coming from any direction to take any of the three other directions...
is a railway junction
Junction (rail)
A junction, in the context of rail transport, is a place at which two or more rail routes converge or diverge.This implies a physical connection between the tracks of the two routes , 'points' and signalling.one or two tracks each meet at a junction, a fairly simple layout of tracks suffices to...
where four two-track railway lines meet.