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train and driver
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.
* 1972 – The Eltham Well Hall rail crash, caused by an intoxicated train driver, kills six people and injures 126.
It begins with a passenger boarding a train at Jackson to find that the driver is inebriated.
Although sometimes carrying a spearman along with the charioteer ( driver ), such heavy proto-chariots, borne on solid wooden wheels and covered with skins, may have been part of the baggage train ( e. g., during royal funeral processions ) rather than vehicles of battle in themselves.
In November 2006 it was reported that Giles had given up his teaching job and become a train driver for South West Trains.
" Unfortunately, nobody told the train driver ," said Greg Mills.
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.
After being given contradictory information by every railway employee they speak to, they eventually bribe a train driver to take his train to their destination.
On 13 August 2010, a defective maintenance train caused disruption on the Charing Cross branch, after it travelled four miles in 13 minutes without a driver.
The line is equipped with an Automatic Train Operation system ( ATO ); the train operator ( driver ) closes the train doors and presses a pair of " start " buttons, and if the way ahead is clear, the ATO drives the train at a safe speed to the next station and stops it there.
The driver of the truck was killed instantly, but although the train derailed, no other lives were lost.
On the train, the driver and fireman were severely injured when the engine caught fire, and about half of the 50 passengers were injured.
From the early 1950s to about 1994, a small resort of about twelve cabins on North Keppel Island was operated by old Mr Walls, a former train driver.
" The servicemen involved had taken a convoy of newly trained Aviation Engineering Battalion personnel to load on a train at Crestview when the over-zealous marshall tried to arrest a black jeep driver for a U-turn, thus leading to the unpleasantness.
The cab driver is escorted to the train station by Mickey Cohen.
Before the toll road, a driver bought a ticket, loaded the vehicle onto a flatbed or train, and used the wooden planks inside the rails when the train was not on a scheduled run.
One person was killed when the 14: 25 Plymouth to Edinburgh Virgin Cross Country service collided with a car that had veered off Moor Lane and onto the tracks, causing the front carriage of the Voyager train set to derail and the car driver to die.
The replacement train driver was never found.

train and second
As with most public transport in Cuba, the vehicles used are second hand, and the flagship Tren Francés (" French train ") between Havana and Santiago de Cuba is operated by coaches originally used in Europe between Paris and Amsterdam on the ex-TEE express.
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.
When Richard's second son Harry was born, Michael bought him a train set.
During the second russification period, at the start of the First World War, the Dowager Empress, travelling by her special train through Finland to Saint Petersburg, expressed her continued disapprobation for the russification of Finland by having an orchestra of a welcoming committee to play the March of the Pori Regiment and the Finnish national anthem " Maamme ", which at the time were under the explicit ban from Franz Albert Seyn, the Governor-General of Finland.
After an elaborate funeral in Prague, Heydrich's coffin was placed on a train to Berlin, where a second ceremony was held in the new Reich Chancellery.
* 1812 – War of 1812: A second supply train sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows.
Tinker passed the first audition, but could not attend the second because her train was delayed due to a bomb scare, and she did not want to go in late.
Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that literally jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.
After the body was taken by train across the country, a second funeral was held on the West Coast, at the Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills.
According to Muslim accounts of the battle, in the midst of the fighting on the second day ( Frankish accounts have the battle lasting one day only ), scouts from the Franks sent by Charles began to raid the camp and supply train ( including slaves and other plunder ).
On May 16, 1842, the second organized wagon train set out from Elm Grove, Missouri, with more than 100 pioneers.
A second truck was quickly made available, and pulled the train a distance of.
Louis XVIII returned to France promptly after Napoleon's defeat, to ensure his second restoration " in baggage train of the enemy ", i. e. with Wellington's troops.
The second is to commence training in anatomical pathology, and complete an initial anatomical pathology examination, which takes a minimum of three years ; then go on to train solely in forensic pathology and complete a forensic pathology examination, which takes a minimum of two years.
He continued to train in aikido as a student of Seiseki Abe, Koichi Tohei ( whose aikido organization, Ki Society, Seagal refused to join in favor of staying with the Aikikai ), Kisaburo Osawa, Hiroshi Isoyama and the second doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba.
From there he took a train to London to discuss with the British government the possibility of opening a second front against Germany.
In fact the Lunar Mechanism which is part of the Antikythera Mechanism depicts the motion of the Moon and its phase, for a given time, using a train of four gears with a pin and slot device which gives a variable lunar velocity that is very close to the second law of Kepler, i. e. it takes into account the fast motion of the Moon at perigee and slower motion at apogee.
In 1977 he fought and killed a second Slayer, Nikki Wood, aboard a subway train in New York City, taking from her a black leather duster which he wears throughout his appearances on Buffy and Angel until it is destroyed in an explosion in Season Five of Angel, whereupon he gets a new one that looks exactly like the old one (" The Girl in Question ").
Before 1912 the town had two train stations: one in the Iron Works District near the present Brookfield Market and a second, Junction Station, near the corner of Junction Road and Stony Hill Road.
McFee, Schaeffer, and " Fergie " Ferguson ( Angus MacInnes ), the second killer at the train station, arrive at the Lapp farm with pump action shotguns.
Butch defeats him using trickery, but embraces his idea to rob the Union Pacific Overland Flyer train on both its eastward and westward runs, agreeing that the second robbery would be unexpected and likely reap even more money than the first.
On the second train robbery, Butch uses too much dynamite to blow open the safe, blowing up the baggage car.
As the gang scrambles to gather up the money, a second train arrives carrying a six-man team of lawmen.
Crisfield briefly became the second most populous city in the entire state of Maryland, known as the " Seafood Capital of the World "; indeed, its success was so great that the train soot and oyster shells prompted the extension of the city's land into the marshes, so that the downtown area is literally built atop oyster shells, a common claim by those from the city.

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