The phone, knowing where I am, has automatically plotted the best route back, and instantly lets me know what the train times are.
That's perfect for Maxbridge, which is just starting to experiment with apps for the consumer market like one that lets users search train times and schedules.
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Because the government mandates everything from train times to many ticket prices, operators of railway lines have few levers to pull in response to market fluctuations.
The new station at Syokimau is modern - it will issue passengers with electronic tickets to swipe at turnstiles and there are also large screens to give train times, he adds.
Using your phone's location information, it can show train times when you get close to a station, concerts coming to a venue near you, photogenic landmarks in the vicinity, and suggest events in the area to check out.
The 26-year-old takes the train multiple times a day for her job escorting people to medical appointments.
Train journey times between Leeds and Manchester are to be cut under plans to electrify the North TransPennine Express rail route.
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Having worked for many years in Tokyo, with family in Osaka, your correspondent has made the two-and-a-half hour journey on the Tokaido bullet-train many times.
The title does exactly what it says on the tin, taking advantage of MTA's signalling installations on the 1 through 6 lines (and the 42nd Street Shuttle) to determine train arrival times down to the minute.
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Mr. Ulibarri, who has been divorced twice and has four grown children, says Messex is pleasantly quiet aside from the train blasts several times a day.
This Sunday, the New York Times in Train a Parent, Spare a Child, grapples with the parental urge to bribe and threaten their youngsters to achieve quick compliance with their demands even though all the experts warn that the long-term effects will produce either compliant children (sheep) or defiant ones (outlaws).
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Train total-body 2 times per week with resistance heavy enough to make 8-12 repetitions very challenging.
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They have encouraged train operators to stretch journey times in their timetables to minimise the risk of trains arriving late.
Network Rail says the introduction of the second track will "improve train punctuality, reduce journey times and allow more services".
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"You train with them and compare times and if you've come out ahead you know you're in good shape, " Mathias Berthold, coach of the Austrian men's team said of the U.S. skiers.
It prompted the TUC to claim that average train fares had risen nearly three times faster than average incomes since 2008.
In early December, Ki-Suck Han, 58, was shoved onto the tracks in a Times Square station as a train approached.
And I think about Ty'Sheoma Bethea, the young girl from that school I visited in Dillon, South Carolina a place where the ceilings leak, the paint peels off the walls, and they have to stop teaching six times a day because the train barrels by their classroom.
There are typically fewer rail travellers during Christmas week than at normal times, but the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) said people would still make 20 million rail journeys between 23 December and 3 January.
Both times I've tried "Crazy Train" on pro expert guitar, I've had such a visceral feel for what I was playing, It challenged me to play more precisely than I could ever on my own, and the sense of accomplishment was equivalently fulfilling.
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Day, as the nation's first black president was being sworn in for a second time, was a reminder to all of us that at times equality can feel like a slow train coming ... but we cannot grow weary because it is coming.
Buffett said in the letter that he prefers train carriers to trucking companies because the former is three times more fuel-efficient.
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Lanier is a big thinker, and he asks his reader to follow the train of his thought, which varies pretty widely at times, though his main points include at turns arguing against the singularity (the eventuality that computers will be "smarter" than humans one day, most famously championed by Ray Kurzweil), discussing such futurists and their new religion, and of course -- taking on Web 2.0.
There are times when following Japanese politics is like watching a train wreck.
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Sir Ian was commissioner at Scotland Yard in 2005 when the 27-year-old Brazilian was mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot seven times by counter-terrorist officers on a Tube train.
This is fairly standard throughout most of Europe but rare in England, where players usually train for up to two hours in the morning four or five times a week.
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Led out, as usual, by his big brother and pace maker Bullet Train, Frankel destroyed the field with such insouciant ease that at times the race resembled a time trial.
The front page of the L.A. Times today features the policy debate around a high speed bullet train in California.
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