Sentences with phrase «of railway trains»

Spectators were once quite content with a view of factory employees going to and from their work, the arrival and departure of railway trains, and similar scenes.

And faintly, in the distance, could that be the whistle of a railway train?

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The second quarter will be impacted by strikes by France's national railway workers (SNCF) which affect the transportation by train of certain products and raw materials, and thus operations at certain sites, mainly in advanced materials.

The crude oil trade was largely responsible for turning around the fortunes of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, which owned the train that was eastbound through Lac - Mégantic.

Pourbaix said that railway operators have hired and are training crew to handle crude shipments and have «indicated that they're reactivating a fair amount of locomotives.»

Cara got its start as the Canada Railway News Co. in 1883, building on the business of a few entrepreneurial Phelans who were selling apples and newspapers on trains leaving Toronto.

In the 1880s, the most sophisticated railroad managers and some economists argued that railroads were «natural monopolies,» the inevitable consequence of an industry that required huge investments in rights of way over land, constructing railways, and building train engines and rail cars.

Besides owning trains (BNSF Railway), planes (NetJets) and automobiles, Warren Buffett also wholly owns or controls huge stakes in food (Heinz), restaurant (Dairy Queen), beverage (Coca - Cola), banking (Wells Fargo), insurance (Geico), furniture (Nebraska Furniture Mart), real estate (Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices), building (Benjamin Moore) and clothing (Fruit of the Bloom) companies, to name just a few.

The Philippine press is reporting that industry sources said that a consortium that is vying for the Light Railway Transit extension contract is on the verge of breaking up as two members (AMA Group Holdings and SNC Lavalin) are engaged in a dispute over who should supply the equipment and trains and how much funding the Philippine government should source.

Keith Stewart, a climate and energy campaigner with Greenpeace Canada who has examined the increased use of oil trains, criticized railways in Canada and the United States for continuing to use older oil tank cars that he said were found to be unsafe more than 20 years ago.

The railway did not respond to further questions, but Reuters, quoting officials from the company, said the oil aboard the train had come from the Bakken oil fields of the Western United States.

Following the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, Raitt oversaw a series of new safety oversight measures, including restrictions on single - person crews and unattended trains, and improved tracking or labelling of dangerous oil products.

A vendor onboard an Indian Railways train has been fined after he was spotted carrying tea and coffee cans out of a toilet — suggesting customer beverages had been mixed in a public bathroom.

OTTAWA — An internal memorandum to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, prepared more than two years before the Lac - Megantic railway disaster, noted that oil shipments by train were on the verge of expanding by up to 20 times the volume.

China has frozen approval of new railway projects and halted some bullet train manufacturing, stepping up an overhaul of its controversial high - speed network after a July collision that killed 40 people.

A Department for Transport spokesman said: «We are investing in the biggest modernisation of our railways since the Victorian times to improve services for passengers - providing faster and better, more comfortable trains with extra seats.

The merely desultory way of conceiving the case, which has regard only to the new sin and passes over the intermediate state, the interval between the particular sins, is just as superficial a way of conceiving it as it would be to assume that the railway train moved only when the locomotive puffed.

And when I added up all those trips, I realized that I've ridden nearly 40,000 miles on the Trans - Siberian tracks, spent a total of three months on Russian trains (from gritty «hard class» to glitzy luxury class), and eaten 270 meals on (or near) the railway diners.

Standing out against the competition were candidates Maya, of JKS Restaurants, who is working alongside head of operations to develop the drinks offering across the group, and The Railway Kitchen's Martin Bilsborough, both of whom will work closely with bartenders in their respective cities and around the country to deliver bespoke training sessions, interactive master - classes, and consumer and trade tasting events to communicate the distinctive flavour profile and production process of Half Hitch gin.

On 10th November 2009, after telling his wife he was going to work, Enke instead drove to a railway line and stepped out in front of an express train.

After the Man City match Arsene Wenger spoke about consistency and momentum among other things and he used the imagery of the railway to say that Arsenal were on the right train going in the right direction, having solved a lot of key issues like games against other big clubs and defensive solidity.

No one was injured but the club's owners just happened to be the railway company, who did not take too kindly to the burning of their train and terminated their involvement with the club.

Wooden trains are a classic toy, and Bigjigs Rail offers one of the most complete wooden railway systems available.

The Conservatives have accused the government of increasing train fares to cut overcrowding on Britain's railways.

The venue is a former railway station, so be on the lookout for puns about «going off the rails», «one - track mind» and «train of thought».

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has defended his decision to cancel the electrification of several mainline railways, saying that developments in new train technology mean infrastructure upgrades are not always necessary.

I'll readily accept that the Treasury was too greedy in the case of the railways, and that stymied the improvements - but does anyone still think train travel was better chugging along under British Rail?

He added that he supports the introduction of hydrogen trains and said he wants to see them starting to be trialled on UK railways.

The investment has met with approval from Passenger Focus, the lobby group for rail passengers, which said that the main priorities for those travelling on the railways were more trains arriving on time, more and longer trains and increased chances of getting a seat.

While Saratoga & North Creek Railway ran what the company says was its last tourist train on Saturday, Warren County leaders said they have heard from a representative of another railroad that is interested in excursion train operations on the county - owned line.

The private sector participants spoke about the work that has commended on the Apapa - Wharf Road, contractors that have abandoned work on the Lagos - Ibadan Express Way, the need to revive Railway for ease of transporting goods from ports, the need to stop multiple checks at airports leading to delay, decry planned increase in alcoholic drinks, the need to take interest in education in other to avoid situation where I'll - trained people man critical sectors, the need to revive eastern ports including Onitshe, Warri, Port Harcourt and Calabar.

Tuesday 10.05 - Transport rail 2020, Maggie Simpson, Policy Manager, Rail Freight Group and Nigel Jones, Head of Planning and Strategy, DB Schenker; Michael Roberts, Chief Executive Officer, Association of Train Operating Companies, Paul Plummer, Group Strategy Director, Network Rail, Jeremy Candfield, Director General, Railway Industry Association and Dr Richard Wellings, Deputy Editorial Director, Institute of Economic Affairs; Kaj Mook, Head of Customer Service Transition, Merseyrail

The government was today accused of pricing people off the railways after it emerged train fares are set to rise by as much as 14 per cent.

Automatic Train Operation (ATO) will also be part of the core section the Thameslink route, a first for the mainline railway.

I retreat to Winchester train station for the journey home, past Churchill's newsagent, which used to sell penny sweets in old plastic containers, as if nothing had changed since Victorian times, past the Railway Inn, where we used to try to buy drinks when we were underage, past the old house of a school friend where I used to spend most of the summer.

Pastrick, a former train engineer from Ravena, once drove freight trains on the Delaware & Hudson Railway and recalled one trip to the Port of Albany with a student engineer at the controls.

There's a bit of confusion tonight surrounding the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling's (29 November 2017) announcement to set out a new vision for our railways, which includes plans to end the operational divide between track and train and an evolution of the franchising system.

Whilst we inherited a deficit greater than any in our nation's peace - time history, we knew that we had to give the country the boost it needs, to build great railways and make journeys better for the millions of hard - working people who use the train every day.

The publication today of the Rolling Stock Plan sets out how many carriages the English Training Operation Companies need to meet capacity demand on the railways until 2014.

The ORR had concluded that the airport is not permitted to introduce higher charges for train operators that take into account the long term construction costs of the 8 km railway spur, used by Heathrow Express services, into central London.

The president of Saratoga & North Creek Railway is using music to defend his company's decision to store train tank cars on the company's line in the Adirondacks.

As the Saratoga and North Creek Railway plans to bring in revenue by storing train cars from other companies, environmental organizations are calling for the state to reject the plan in the interest of preserving the Adirondack Park.

The Liberal Democrats warned passengers are being forced of the railways because of the cost of train tickets.

Eurostar trains have been suspended because of a trespasser on the UK part of the railway, the operator has said.

«Conference calls on a future Labour government to run our railways in the interest of passengers by retaining and extending this successful model of public ownership to each franchise as it expires and by integrating track and train operations,» he said.

A young Tory activist who made allegations of bullying within the Conservative Party and was later found dead on a railway line after being hit by a train, took his own life, a coroner has ruled.

The Chief Engineer of the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL), Mr William Ackun, has called for the immediate suspension of train services on the Accra - Tema railway line until maintenance work is carriRailway Company Limited (GRCL), Mr William Ackun, has called for the immediate suspension of train services on the Accra - Tema railway line until maintenance work is carrirailway line until maintenance work is carried out.

Messages attacking China's «Ministry of Truth» were zapped, as were ones involving calls for the «resignations» of incompetent government officials, such as that of the railways minister after a horrific train crash.

Patrick Hallgate, Network Rail's managing director for the Western route, said: «Our Great Western Electrification Programme will bring Brunel's railway into the 21st century, by electrifying the main line that runs from London Paddington to Swansea in preparation for the arrival of a new fleet of electric trains.

With its celebrated Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains, Central Japan Railway has for the past five decades carried billions of passengers between Tokyo and Osaka in half the time it would take to fly.