The trains have always been fully automated and controlled by computer operations and have no driver ; a Passenger Service Agent ( PSA ) on each train, originally referred to as a " Train Captain ", is responsible for patrolling the train, checking tickets, making announcements and controlling the doors.

Passenger train in La Ceiba on January 11, 2005.

In 1935, British movie, The Silent Passenger, was released, in which Lord Peter ( played by Peter Haddon ) solved a mystery on the boat train crossing the English Channel.

Passenger travel ceased in 1953, while the commercial train system ( mostly for the sugar cane industry ) continued operating until 1957.

Passenger rail service to Victoria is provided by Via Rail, which operates the Victoria – Courtenay train north, along the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, to the cities of Nanaimo, Courtenay, and points between.

Among the many films that have copied this formula are Under Siege ( terrorists take over a ship ), Snakes on a Plane ( poisonous snakes take over a passenger plane ), Speed, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Derailed ( hostages are trapped on a train ), Sudden Death ( terrorists take over an Ice Hockey stadium ), Passenger 57, Executive Decision and Air Force One ( hostages are trapped on a plane ), Con Air ( criminals take over a transport plane ), and Half Past Dead and The Rock ( criminals or terrorists take over a prison ).

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is operated and managed as a for-profit corporation and began operations on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States.

Following the massive bankruptcy of the Penn Central in 1970, Congress created Amtrak to take over the failed company's intercity passenger train service, under the Rail Passenger Service Act.

In 1900, the SAL Railroad constructed the Hamlet Historical Depot Seaboard Air Line Passenger Depot, a Victorian architecture train station which is one of the most photographed train stations in the eastern United States.

Passenger train service was reestablished on the Wisconsin Central in 1995.

Passenger trains ended service in the late 1940s, and the last freight train made its final run through Stockton in approximately 1955.

Passenger service ended in 1938, and the last freight train ran in 1947.

Passenger train service on the line ended in 1935.

Passenger service ended in January 1970 with the discontinuance of the Hoboken-Chicago Lake Cities, the last long-distance passenger train operated by DL & W successor Erie Lackawanna.

Passenger train service between Reading / Pottstown and Philadelphia was operated by Conrail under the auspices of SEPTA until July 29, 1981 when all diesel services were terminated.

Passenger train service between Pottsville, Reading and Philadelphia was operated by Conrail under the auspices of SEPTA until July 29, 1981.

Wales & West ( legal name Wales & West Passenger Services Limited, company no 3011029 ) was was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Prism Rail that operated the South Wales & West franchise from October 1996 until October 2001.

The Advanced Passenger Train British Rail's ill-fated tilting train

Passenger trains may employ one or more assistant conductors, who assist the conductor and engineer in the safe and prompt movement of the train, to share the workload, and accept delegated responsibility.

In New Zealand, inner city commuter rail networks are staffed by a Driver, a Train Manager ( guard ) and one to three Passenger Operators ( ticket collectors ), depending on how many carriages the train has.

Passenger services would be withdrawn from around 5, 000 route miles accounting for an annual train mileage of 68 million and yielding, according to Beeching, a net saving of £ 18m per year.

The Advanced Passenger Train ( APT ) was an experimental tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s.

Advanced Passenger Train: The official illustrated account of British Rail's revolutionary new 155 mph train.

As the official show of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, the UK ’ s trade association for the bus, coach and light rail industry, the three day event offers visitors from Europe and beyond the chance to see and experience, at first hand, the very latest vehicles and product and service innovations right across the industry.

Passenger and freight service runs on these lines.

Passenger ferry service also operated for many years between Wellington and Lyttleton ( the port closest to Christchurch ).

Passenger facilities provided include: post office, telephone services, Skype phone booth, free Internet kiosks, free wireless Internet access, left luggage storage and baggage wrapping service.

* Passenger jets enter service.

Passenger services are provided by two rail service providers, PKP Intercity that provides intercity passengers trains ( express, intercity, eurocity, hotel and TLK ) and Przewozy Regionalne that operates only regional passenger trains financed by the voivodeship.

Passenger service on the new Royal Gorge Route Railroad began in May 1999.

Passenger rail service to Montgomery was enhanced in 1898 with the opening of Union Station.

Mettupalayam provides the interchange between ' The Nilgiri Passenger ' NMR metre gauge service and the Nilgiri Express broad gauge service.

Passenger service at the airport is offered by United Express ( SkyWest Airlines ), Delta Connection ( SkyWest Airlines ), and Allegiant Airlines.

Passenger service continued until November 1950.

Passenger rail service to Kannapolis is available via Amtrak.

Passenger rail service is provide by New Jersey Transit via the Northeast Corridor, North Jersey Coast Line, Raritan Valley Line, the Morristown Line and the Gladstone Branch.

Passenger service had ceased in the 1930s, and regular freight service ended in the late 1970s.

The concept of multiple unit has entered the horizon of the Chinese since the 6th Speed-up Campaign of China Railways in 2007. With the upgrade of Jinghu Railway, North Jingguang Railway, Jingha Railway and Hukun Railway, and the construction of new Passenger Dedicated Lines ( or Passenger Railways ) completed, CRH ( China Railway High-speed ) trains have been put into service, mainly in North and Northeast China, and East China.

* A coach service to Stansted Airport is provided by Excel Passenger Logistics.

The New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal ( UPT )/ Loyola Avenue corridor streetcar line started construction in August 2011 and is planned to begin revenue service starting in June 2012.

Passenger service stopped in the 1940s.