Perhaps Patchen was once involved in a train accident, and this passage from First Will And Testament may have been how the accident appeared to the poet when he first saw it -- if he did: ``

In August while stopping in Greenock, Scotland, three members of the crew on liberty rendered first aid to a girl who fell from a train.

In 1894, the first train on the Achill railway carried the bodies of victims of the Clew Bay Drowning.

* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

The two schools were the first to train artist-designers in a modern manner.

In Wyndham Lewis's The Wild Body ( 1927 ) the protagonist, Ker-Orr, in the first story, ' A Soldier of Humour ', takes the train from Paris and stays in the town of Bayonne before passing through into Spain.

Basel SBB railway station | Basel Bahnhof SBB, self proclaimed " world's first international train station.

* 1851 – The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.

The first known of these was a film shot by a Lumière cameraman from the back platform of a train leaving Jerusalem in 1896, and by 1898 there were a number of films shot from moving trains.

The Anstoss thus provides the essential impetus that first sets in motion the entire complex train of activities that finally result in our conscious experience both of ourselves and others as empirical individuals and of the world around us.

* 1825: George Stephenson opens the Stockton and Darlington Railway the first steam train railway for passenger traffic in the world.

The company's stranglehold on the region was broken by the first successful large wagon train to reach Oregon in 1843, led by Marcus Whitman.

The first Iraqi Republic Railways train to Basra since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime arrived on 26 April 2003.

* 1833 – U. S. President Andrew Jackson becomes the first President to ride on a train.

* 1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York, New York, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.

* 1942 – World War II: the first selections for the gas chamber at Auschwitz take place on a train full of Jews from Paris.

* 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal.

* 1886 – The first scheduled Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia.

* 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.

Kandó was the first who recognised that an electric train system can only be successful if it can use the electricity from public networks.

* 1865 – In North Bend, Ohio ( a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio ), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

* 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.

The relational model, first proposed in 1970 by Edgar F. Codd, departed from this tradition by insisting that applications should search for data by content, rather than by following links.

There he was invited to head Saint Paul's College, a pioneer seminary for the education of secular priests that became the first jesuit headquarters in Asia, but soon departed, having spent the following three years in India.

On May 1, 1804, the first group of emigrants departed for the United States.

Elias Lönnrot departed on the first part of his ninth field trip on 16 September 1836.

One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.

Though the Phillies moved into a permanent home at Baker Bowl in 1887, they did not win their first pennant until nearly 30 years later, after the likes of standout players Billy Hamilton, Sam Thompson, and Ed Delahanty had departed.

His insistence during the expedition on Royal Navy formalities had made for uneasy relations with the merchant navy contingent, many of whom departed for home with the first relief ship in March 1903.

On July 26, 1923, having departed Alaska on the USS Henderson, President Harding toured Vancouver, British Columbia ; the first sitting American President ever to visit Canada.

Zheng He's first voyage, which departed July 11, 1405, from Suzhou, consisted of a fleet of 317 ships ( other sources say 200 ships ) holding almost 28, 000 crewmen ( each ship housing up to 500 men ).

" Louis departed greatly from all cornet players in his ability to compose a close-knit individual 32 measures with all phrases compatible with each other …," Spurrier told the biographers Sudhalter and Evans, " so Bix and I always credited Louis as being the father of the correlated chorus: play two measures, then two related, making four measures, on which you played another four measures related to the first four, and so on ad infinitum to the end of the chorus.

The Portuguese became the first known Europeans to visit the port of Mombasa but were met with hostility and soon departed.

While the first few parties organized and departed from Elm Grove, the Oregon Trail's primary starting point was Independence, Missouri, or Westport, Kansas City ( Missouri ), on the Missouri River.

Many details may appear superfluous, but turn out to be integral to the plot ( such as a sofa that Richard ordered which has somehow become trapped on his staircase in a position where it not only cannot be removed, but could not apparently have arrived in the first place ; this is explained by the time machine having appeared in the staircase wall while the removal men were bringing it in, Dirk opening the door to help them get it up the stairs before the machine departed ).

Silver City's first commercial flight departed London Heathrow for Sydney via Johannesburg in late 1946.

She first departed Australia in 1928, and worked in a Parisian bank from 1930 to 1935.

Pat Riley missed the playoffs for the first time in his coaching career, and much of the remaining core from the division-title winning Heat teams of the late 1990s departed ( Tim Hardaway, Bruce Bowen and Dan Majerle ).

NBA basketball returned to the Twin Cities in 1989 for the first time since the Minneapolis Lakers departed for Los Angeles in 1960.

The Pelasgians under Nasas " rose up " ( anestēsan ) against the Hellenes ( who presumably had acquired Thessaly ) and departed for Italy where they first took Cortona and then founded Tyrrhenia.

After the collapse of Angkor in 1431, many persons, texts and institutions were taken to the Ayutthaya capital of Ayutthaya in the west, while others departed for the new center of Khmer society at Longvek further south, though the official capital later moved, first to Oudong around from Phnom Penh in Ponhea Leu District, and then to the present site of Phnom Penh.

Two months later the first of the four ocean-going steamers of the Britannia Class, departed Liverpool, arriving in Halifax after 12 days and 10 hours, averaging, before proceeding to Boston.

As soon as Girl Crazy closed, she and her parents departed for a much-needed vacation in Lake George in Upstate New York, but after their first day there Merman was summoned to Atlantic City to help salvage the troubled latest edition of George White's Scandals.

* May 1950: Gatwick's first chartered flight departed the original airport's grass runway for Calvi on the Mediterranean island of Corsica with a refuelling stop in Nice.

* 2 June 1982: At the end of his first visit to the British Isles, Pope John Paul II departed Gatwick on board a BCal Boeing 707 bound for Rome.

The first inmate was received on April 27, 1942, and the last inmate departed on September 4, 1942.