Passengers are advised to check for changes to platforms their trains arrive and depart from during the 10-day period.

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The coastal cliffs are home to a mind-boggling array of seabirds, including the ultimate crowd-pleasers: the divinely comedic puffins that arrive for the breeding season in April and depart for warmer climes in mid-August.

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The idea of millions of people crisscrossing the country in every direction and manner of transportation, negotiating major airports and cathedral-like train stations, waiting for planes, trains and buses to arrive and depart, triggers in me such anxiety I want to hide.

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