Platform doors can also allow for air-conditioning of train platforms and prevent litter from getting onto the tracks.

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Saturday, the 232 passengers -- who'd stayed aboard the Chicago-bound train, which had air conditioning and food -- had been taken off and put on buses so they could reach their final destinations, according to Kulm.

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The new study looked at how much metal this so-called particulate matter is contained in the air of underground train systems.

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But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.

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Amtrak has started suspending passenger train services across the north-eastern US and air travel has been badly hit, with some 6, 800 flights cancelled.

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But that would have meant an arduous trip by sea, train and probably air east to the United Arab Emirates - in the wrong direction - before flying back across Europe and the Atlantic to Barbados.

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But beware: The discount carriers often use out-of-the-way air fields and you can find yourself with long bus or train transfers between airports.

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Kumar launched a new ac train on that route with round-trip fares of 1, 600 rupees, and Air Deccan, which had been running at losses, was sold to another airline.

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