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The Granville rail disaster occurred on 18 January 1977 at Granville, a suburb in western Sydney, when a crowded commuter train derailed, running into the supports of a road bridge that collapsed onto two of the train's passenger carriages.
On 10 May 2002, the second of the Potters Bar rail accidents occurred killing seven people ; the train was at high speed when it derailed and flipped into the air when one of the carriages slid along the platform where it came to rest.
From September 14 to 16, filming of Indiana falling into the train carriages took place in Los Angeles.
Although warned of the collapsed bridge, the train driver was unable to stop the train in time and six of the carriages fell into the river.
A ferry service connects Messina on Sicily with the mainland at Villa San Giovanni, which lies several kilometers north of the large city of Reggio Calabria ; the ferries hold the cars ( carriages ) of the mainline train service between Palermo and Naples.
* TGV Duplex, a French high-speed train of the TGV family featuring bi-level carriages
The original platforms, too short to align with all train carriages, were extended in 1922.
Multiple units ( MU ) are self-propelled train carriages capable of coupling with other units of the same or similar type and still being controlled from one driving cab.
The Japanese M250 series train has four front and end carriages that are EMUs, and has been operating since March 2004.
* Head end power, a method for providing electricity to train carriages
** train shunting puzzles: move trains and carriages along tracks.
Most typically, an inter-city train is an express train with limited stops and comfortable carriages to serve long-distance travel.
This train is rather conventional, having separable carriages instead of articulated trailers, and can be intermingled with conventional non-tilt cars.
The train consisted of 12 carriages and carried 72 Post Office staff who sorted mail during the journey.
To alleviate this problem, McConnel proposed that the doors on one side of each carriage be permanently barred and the track slewed off-centre beneath the bridges to allow adequate clearance at least on the side with doors, which would allow passengers to get out of the carriages if the train stopped underneath a bridge.
Before preservation, the station had contained only a fan of sidings, which meant that there was no way for the locomotive of an arriving train to run round the carriages.
As a result, trains were pushed from behind as far as Pendre, where the locomotive could be moved past the carriages to the front of the train.
The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train, a private venture by Orient-Express Hotels using original carriages from the 1920s and 30s, continues to run from London to Venice and to other destinations in Europe, including the original route from Paris to Istanbul.
The Southern line was reserved for the special opening train, drawn by the locomotive Northumbrian and conveying the Duke of Wellington, then Prime Minister, in an ornamental carriage, together with distinguished guests in other carriages ( including Huskisson ).
This however was denied by Peter Lecount, one of the L & BR engineers, who wrote in his ' History of the Railway connecting London and Birmingham ' ( 1839 ), page 48: " It is not because locomotives cannot draw a train of carriages up this incline that a fixed engine and endless rope are used, for they can and have done so, but because the Company are restricted, by their Act of Parliament, from running locomotive engines nearer London than Camden Town.
After Thomas Cook began the tourist business, the MCR began organising excursions on its own account, on one occasion conveying some 2, 400 people in a single train of 65 four-wheeled carriages and wagons.
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.

train and had
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
From the man who had leaped in from the high bank outside, as the train had slowed on the grade.
He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??
The train had slowed.
Therefore it's a genuine pleasure to tell you about an entirely happy bodybuilder who has never had to train in secret has never heard one unkind word from his parents and never has been taunted by his schoolmates!!
Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.
In Alabama Public Service Commission v. Southern Ry. Co., the commission had refused to permit abandonment of certain `` uneconomic '' train facilities.
Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.
At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.
yet if he said: Make an excuse yourself, come out here today, she would have been on the next train -- and, similarly, if she had been in need, he would have gone to her.
In 1851, he represented Alton & Sangamon Railroad in a dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. Barret, who had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to buy shares in the railroad on the grounds that the company had changed its original train route.
In 1893, at the age of thirty-three, Bates, an English professor at Wellesley College, had taken a train trip to Colorado Springs, Colorado, to teach a short summer school session at Colorado College.
* 2008 – A EuroCity express train en-route from Kraków, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic strikes a part of a motorway bridge that had fallen onto the railroad track near Studénka railway station in the Czech Republic and derails, killing 8 people and injuring 64 others.
In mid-December 1915, Dr. Alzheimer fell ill on the train on his way to the University of Breslau, where he had been appointed professor of psychiatry in 1912.
When a hypothetical dilemma was given to 24 people and according to the dilemma they had the capability of pushing a stranger in front of a train so they could rescue five people, individuals who had taken selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors were not as likely to support the idea of pushing the person.
On 2 September, Skippon, having been told that his infantry were unable to break out as the cavalry had done, and having been offered generous terms by the King, surrendered 6, 000 infantry and all his army's guns and train.
It had become too expensive to train new staff members to use BC, and too expensive to maintain in general.
Motor-driven mechanical calculators had these between the drive motor and gear train, to limit damage when the mechanism jammed, as motors used in such calculators had high stall torque and were capable of causing damage to the mechanism if torque wasn't limited.

train and distinctive
Several new train models followed the first, each generally with its own distinctive appearance.
Railroad station porters ( not train porters ) traditionally wear distinctive red-colored caps for easy identification, contrasting with the caps in blue or other colors, normally worn by other train personnel.
The distinctive distorted sound of a human voice amplified by a megaphone is widely recognized, from its use in train and bus stations and sports arenas.
Its distinctive shape and the characteristic puffing sound when the brake is released ( as the train pipe has to be recharged with air ) make steam locomotives fitted with the Westinghouse brake unmistakable.
New single-arm current collectors were fitted from the start, and these initially featured the distinctive " wine-glass " pantograph shrouds of the 300X train.
Besides being a good exercise to train the fighter to get full shoulder and body thrust behind each punch, it also belies the form's Islamic heritage ; the same distinctive technique can be found in other Islamic long fist forms, such as San Lu Pao ( 三路跑袍 ) and Si Lu Cha Quan ( 四路查拳 ).
There, powered by one of the large " E " series passenger diesels ( an EMC E5 ) with the distinctive and durable stainless-steel fluting, it is still operated on short runs on the Museum's substantial trackage, providing train enthusiasts and tourists with an experience reminiscent of the heyday of the Burlington's Zephyr service.
The train features the distinctive and durable stainless steel fluting made famous by the original " Silver Streak " Pioneer Zephyr.
In addition, Metro can be found in distinctive green boxes on corners and in train and subway stations, echoing the colorful green and orange template used in all editions.
The coaster itself mimics this definition with a distinctive roar that the train produces as it traverses the track.

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