November 2008 saw the release of And Winter Came ... with a new video for the song " Trains and Winter Rains ".

A string of TV and minor film roles ensued, with the most important ones coming in guise of being a father figure to the main protagonist-Čuvar plaže u zimskom periodu ( Beach Guard in Winter, 1976 ), Pas koji je voleo vozove ( The Dog Who Loved Trains, 1977 ) being the most recognizable ones-as well as the part in critically well-received Majstor i Margarita ( Il Maestro e Margherita, 1972 ).

In December 2008 preparatory work was carried out to enable platform 20 to be used by South West Trains suburban services, including the removal of equipment such as customs control facilities, at an estimated cost of between £ 50, 000 and £ 100, 000.

# L ' ultimo treno della notte ( alternate titles: Late Night Trains, Night Train Murders ) — released uncut in 2008

To provide extra capacity on the services extended to Brighton, from December 2008 seventeen Class 442 Wessex Electrics last used by South West Trains began to enter service.

* 186 Class: Since 2008, 14 TRAXX F140AC2 locomotives are leased from Angel Trains for operations on the HSL-Zuid.

Angel Trains ordered the vehicles from Alstom in September 2008.

In 2008, East Midlands Trains revealed its intention to restrict access to parts of the station by installing ticket barriers to try to prevent passengers from travelling without a ticket.

As of March 2008, Arriva Trains Wales operates a fleet of 123 diesel multiple units.

Soul Trains website acknowledged that the program had ceased distribution on September 22, 2008.

With competition mainly from Bachmann Industries, and to a much lesser extent from minor and generally niche players such as the Danish model railway company Heljan, Dapol, Vi Trains and Peco, Hornby Railways now ( in 2008 ) produce a large range of highly detailed British steam and diesel locomotives, such as the BR 9F, LNER Class A4, SR Merchant Navy, Class 60, Class 50, Class 31 and Class 08.

In December 2008 Arriva Trains Wales began operation of a daily express service between Holyhead and Cardiff utilising the company's stored Mark 2 rolling stock.

On 14 December 2008, Virgin Trains withdrew its Edinburgh Waverley to London Euston service and First ScotRail Newcraighall trains ceased to continue onto the Bathgate Line and were extended to the Fife Circle Line instead.

The final vehicle to carry Regional Railways livery was a Class 153, which was repainted in July 2008 into East Midlands Trains livery.

The service ceased on 28 July 2008 when South West Trains withdrew its subsidy citing lack of use despite a protest group having formed and collecting a petition of over 1, 000 signatures to oppose the closure.

On May 11, 2008, Off-Peak Weekday Hoboken-Dover Trains ( 600 Series ) were cut.

Northern ended up only receiving 19 Class 158s, but did gain eight centre carriages from East Midlands Trains in 2008 that were inserted into Northern ’ s ex First North Western Class 158s.

Trains were extended from ten to twelve carriages in a phased roll-out between April 8, 2008 and May 2, 2008 in order to increase capacity, and congestion is alleviated somewhat by the extensive train-bus services outside of rush periods.

In July / August 2008, a contract was signed between Angel Trains and Virgin to take on two Class 180 trains to replace the current arrangement of a Class 90 and MK3 rake, but in October 2008, Virgin West Coast cancelled this agreement as it had procured a lease on a rake of Mk 3 rolling stock, their preferred choice over the Class 180 DMUs.

In Arriva Trains Wales ' performance statistics the Cambrian Line was routinely the worst-performing service group between 2003 and 2008.

On weekends in 2008 during engineering works on the WCML the line was used by Virgin Trains ' Euston-Birmingham International " Blockade Buster " service which ran to Euston via Willesden, Acton Main Line, Ealing Broadway, Greenford, High Wycombe, Banbury and Coventry using pairs of 5-car Voyager sets.

Between November 2007 and February 2008, a refurbishment of the station took place, with it being re-painted it in the new Southern Trains colours.

Trains were to be refurbished Budd Rail Diesel Cars, and were expected to begin running between 2008 and 2010.

* 2008: And Winter Came ...

* Tinkov, S., Bekeredjian, R., Winter, G., Coester, C., Polyplex-conjugated microbubbles for enhanced ultrasound targeted gene therapy, 2008 AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition, 16 – 20 November, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA, USA, < http :// www. aapsj. org / abstracts / AM_2008 / AAPS2008-000838. PDF >

* Goddard, Stacie E. " When Right Makes Might: How Prussia Overturned the European Balance of Power ," International Security, Volume 33, Number 3, Winter 2008 / 09, pp. 110 – 42 in Project MUSE, covers 1864 – 71

There are now dozens of breweries in Britain making porter, with Fuller's ' London Porter ' winning gold and silver medals at the 1999, 2000 and 2002 International Beer & Cider Competitions, and CAMRA's Supreme Champion Winter Beer of Britain silver medal in 2007, with Wickwar Brewery's ' Station Porter ' winning gold in 2008.

* The Lost Art of War, City Journal, Winter 2008

* Rudy Giuliani, ' The Resilient Society ,' City Journal, Winter 2008

* Rick Mercer, in an episode of his self-hosted show Rick Mercer Report, attempted to throat sing with an Inuit woman when he visited the 2008 Arctic Winter Games in Yellowknife.

On returning to the UK in November 2008 following the Sydney Winter Season, Hickox died suddenly from a heart attack after conducting a rehearsal in Swansea.

The 2008 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition was titled " Art Deco 1910 — 1939 " and ran from 28 June to 5 October 2008.

The game had originally been scheduled for the 2004 – 05 season, but the NHL lockout of that year, followed by the 2006 Winter Olympics the following season and the Dallas Stars ' hosting of the 2007 NHL All-Star Game, made 2008 the earliest available date.

It was spoken in Chinese at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and in Italian at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.

On July 16, 2008, the team announced that they would host the 2009 NHL Winter Classic on a temporary ice rink at Wrigley Field on New Years Day against fellow " Original Six " member Detroit Red Wings.

* " Your Winter Weather Authority " ( January 2008 – present )

* " The world of Brother Cadfael " Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Winter, 2008 by H. Wendell Howard

* Tomczik, Adam, "' He-men Could Talk to He-men in He-man Language '": Lumberjack Work Culture in Maine and Minnesota, 1840 – 1940 ," Historian Winter 2008, Vol.

* Overseas Timetable: Independent Traveller's Edition, Winter 2008 / 9 ; Thomas Cook Publishing

* European Rail Timetable: Independent Traveller's Edition, Winter 2008 / 9 ; Thomas Cook Publishing

Apple River-The railroad between Freeport, Illinois and the Mississippi River in the foreground and Chestnut Street in the background, Winter 2008

Scales Mound-Main Street in Winter 2008

As a temporary measure, the AIA purchased the ice rink structure that was used in the 2008 NHL Winter Classic at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.

Bend recently has had success in landing major sporting events such as the 2008 and 2009 USA Winter Triathlon National Championships, the 2008 and 2009 XTERRA Trail Running National Championships, and the 2009 and 2010 United States National Cyclo-cross Championships as well as the 2009 and 2010 USA Cycling Elite Road National Championships.