* Virgin Trains British Rail Class 221 unit 221129 is named in his honour.

In 2002, Virgin Trains ' new £ 5m high speed Super Voyager train number 221130 was named " Michael Palin " – it carries his name externally and a plaque is located adjacent to the onboard shop with information on Palin and his many journeys.

Virgin Trains won the franchises for the former Intercity West Coast and Cross-Country sectors of British Rail.

On 21 September 2006, Branson pledged to invest the profits of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains in research for environmentally friendly fuels.

In Great Britain, the inter-city rail links are now operated by a number of private companies such as Virgin Trains, East Coast, East Midlands Trains, Cross Country and First Great Western.

Virgin Trains ' British Rail Class 390 | Class 390 Pendolino is the flagship train of the West Coast Main Line in the United Kingdom

* British Rail Class 390 " Pendolino " ( United Kingdom ), a high-speed train run by Virgin Trains from London Euston to Liverpool / Manchester / Glasgow / Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

Normal scheduled departures from Chester Station are: multiple services on the North Wales Coast Line ; Virgin Trains to London Euston via Crewe ; Arriva Trains Wales to Manchester Piccadilly via Warrington Bank Quay and Cardiff Central / Birmingham New Street via Wrexham General ; Northern Rail to Manchester Piccadilly via Northwich ; Merseyrail to Liverpool on the Wirral Line.

* In 2002, the English train company Virgin Trains introduced a new type of train called British Rail Class 221.

From May 2003 until September 2004 Midland Mainline operated an hourly service between St Pancras and Manchester Piccadilly at the request of the Strategic Rail Authority whilst the West Coast Main Line between London Euston and Manchester underwent engineering work using former Virgin CrossCountry High Speed Trains.

Former Virgin Cross-Country High Speed Trains were used and after overhaul were repainted into Midland Mainline livery.

Holyhead is currently the terminus of the North Wales Coast Line and is served by Virgin Trains and Arriva Trains Wales services.

In recent decades, the principal solution to the problem of the WCML's curvaceous line of route has been the adoption of tilting trains, formerly British Rail's APT, and latterly the Class 390 Pendolino trains constructed by Alstom and introduced by Virgin Trains in 2003.

But then the privatisation of BR intervened, under which Virgin Trains won a 15-year franchise in 1996 for the running of long-distance express services on the line.

A Virgin Trains | Virgin Pendolino and English Welsh and Scottish Railway | EWS British Rail Class 66 | Class 66 freight train on the WCML

Virgin Trains operates an intensive express network, from Platforms 1-7, 12-18.

Category: Railway stations served by Virgin Trains

This restored direct London services to Shropshire ( Wrexham already being served by a Virgin Trains service to Euston ), with five return trips per day on weekdays.

** A nickname for Virgin Trains ' British Rail Class 57, often used as such due to the aforementioned 60s television programme

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It was a legal New Year when courts of law convened after a winter break, and it marked the supposed moment when the Angel Gabriel came to announce to the Virgin Mary that she would bear a child.

Virgin issued legal proceedings against Sky over the dispute in April 2007.

Virgin CrossCountry ( legal name CrossCountry Trains Limited, company no 3007937 ) was a train operating company in the United Kingdom operating the InterCity CrossCountry franchise from 6 January 1997 until 10 November 2007 radiating out from Birmingham New Street across the country.

The court found in favour of Branson and Virgin, and ordered King and BA to pay damages to Branson of £ 500, 000 and a further £ 110, 000 to his airline, and legal fees of up to £ 3 million.

Schweizer feels Matthew is far more concerned with proving Jesus ' legal status as the stepson of Joseph, and thus a legal heir of David, than proving the Virgin Birth.

After a judicial review, the British Virgin Islands court ordered the project suspended whilst the legal review was undertaken.

The official name of the Territory is still simply the " Virgin Islands ", but the prefix " British " is often used to distinguish it from the neighbouring American territory which changed its name from the " Danish West Indies " to " Virgin Islands of the United States " in 1917.

Moreover, the Territory's Constitutional Commission has expressed the view that " every effort should be made ", to encourage the use of the name " Virgin Islands ".

* Finally, some consider the name a reference to the Virgin Mary, whose proverbial gentleness can be likened to the gentleness of this cooking technique.

In 1594, they were visited by English commander Richard Hawkins, who, combining his own name with that of Queen Elizabeth I, the " Virgin Queen ", gave the islands the name of " Hawkins ' Maidenland.

Various plants in Scandinavia once bore her name, but it was replaced with the name of the Virgin Mary during the process of Christianization.

At Albert's request, Pope Innocent III dedicated the Baltic countries to the Virgin Mary to popularize recruitment to his army and the name " Mary's Land " has survived up to modern times.

She is one of seven women, excluding the Blessed Virgin, commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass.

The name " Virginia " may have been suggested then by Raleigh or Elizabeth, perhaps noting her status as the " Virgin Queen ", and may also be related to a native phrase, " Wingandacoa ", or name, " Wingina ".

On his third visit, he was accompanied by a young Captain by the name of Francis Drake in the Judith, for whom the central channel in the British Virgin Islands would later be named.

" When later required to name their founders, the Brothers referred to both Elijah and the Blessed Virgin as early models of the community.

The Danish geographical name for the constituent islands is Jomfruøerne ( " The Virgin Islands ").

It is possible that the city was named after early settler Mary Lloyd, but now the name is thought to be derived from French fur trappers ' naming of Marys Peak after the Virgin Mary.

According to the earliest account of the apparition, the Nican Mopohua, which was written in the Nahuatl language around 1556, the Virgin Mary told Juan Bernadino, the uncle of Juan Diego, that the image left on the tilma was to be known by the name " the Perfect Virgin, Holy Mary of Guadalupe.

Three reasons in favor of the original name " Guadalupe " include the fact that Juan Diego and Juan Bernardino would have had to be familiar with the " g " and " d " sounds to pronounce their baptismal names, there is no evidence to show that the Virgin was called anything else before Becerra Tanco's proposal, and the number of documents written by contemporary Spaniards and Franciscan Friars arguing for the name of the Virgin to be changed to " Tepeaca " or " Tepeaquilla ," which indicate that indeed the original name was " Guadalupe " and not a native name otherwise there would have been no controversy.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

A feast of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin had already begun to be celebrated in some churches of the West.

* 1848 – Slaves are freed in the Danish West Indies ( now U. S. Virgin Islands ) by Peter von Scholten in the culmination of a year-long plot by enslaved Africans.

* There is a painting depicting Christ and the Virgin by this painter in the Norton Art Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida.

* 1917 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $ 25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.

More modestly, Peter Island in the British Virgin Islands was also named after Stuyvesant during the Dutch West India Company's administration of that Territory.

Most of the residents were born in the islands, although many migrated to the U. S. Virgin Islands from other islands in the West Indies, the United States and other countries.

The Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of 1954 () is the current Organic Act defining the government of the United States Virgin Islands acquired by the Treaty of the Danish West Indies of 1916.

* March 31 – The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which become the US Virgin Islands, after paying $ 25 million to Denmark.

Notwithstanding Spanish hostility, the Dutch West India Company still considered the Virgin Islands to have an important strategic value, as they were located approximately halfway between the Dutch colonies in South America ( now Suriname ) and the most important Dutch settlement in North America, New Amsterdam ( now New York City ).

In 1631, the Dutch West India Company expressed an interest in the copper which had been discovered on Virgin Gorda, and a settlement was set up on that island, which came to be known as " Little Dyk's " ( now known as Little Dix ).

During the negotiations, the British also became aware of two older historical claims, the 1628 patent granted to the Earl of Carlisle ( which was inconsistent with Hunthum's title being sold to him by the Dutch West India company ), and an order of the King in 1694 to prevent foreign settlement in the Virgin Islands.

The islands were sold to the United States in 1916 under the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies and were organized as the United States Virgin Islands in 1917.

The typical image of Pentecost in the West is that of the Virgin Mary seated centrally and prominently among the disciples, with flames resting on the crowns of their heads.

* The Dutch took over Saba, Saint Martin, Sint Eustatius, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, Tobago, St. Croix, Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, Anguilla and a short time Puerto Rico, together called the Dutch West Indies, in the seventeenth century.

* The Danish first ruled part, then all of the present U. S. Virgin Islands since 1672, selling sovereignty over these Danish West Indies in 1917 to the United States which still administers them.

Explorers ( mainly Norwegians ), scientists, merchants ( mainly Danish ) and settlers from Denmark – Norway took possession of the Danish West Indies ( present-day U. S. Virgin Islands ) in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth.

* Charlotte Amalie West, United States Virgin Islands

Then I heard also the singing of the angels, which was of miraculous sweetness and great beauty ... After this the Virgin kneels to pray to her child, to be joined by St. Joseph, and this ( technically known as the Adoration of the Child ) becomes one of the commonest depictions in the fifteenth century, largely replacing the reclining Virgin in the West.