All this meant that in the America of Edith Wharton and Henry James, travelling by train, and arriving and leaving great cities and great stations by train, was an ennobling experience and an exhilarating adventure.
The minister said funds were allocated for "thousands of new carriages across the country, electrifying swathes of the rail network, and redeveloping many of our great railway stations" to address "crowding, cut journey times and improve passenger experience".
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It is a great money gusher for the companies with stations in the most hotly contested states.
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First Great Western said services running through these stations may be cancelled, delayed or revised at short notice.
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So when Mr Blum travels to the tiny Cornish village of Porthcurno, he is able to see the landing stations for many of the great transatlantic fibre-optic cables that carry traffic in the form of beams of pulsating laser light between Europe and the Americas.
For bigger stations, whose listeners represent the great bulk of the audience for commercial radio, the fees would be negotiated under a system much like the one used by composers.
Homeowners are tearing down walls and building open-plan kitchens that blend into dens or great rooms, and in some cases include homework stations or home offices.
The UK government is closing eight coastguard stations as part of a modernisation plan, including Great Yarmouth, Liverpool, Thames, Swansea, and Portland.
Now, it is great to be here at one of America's finest naval air stations.
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Without providing a great deal of detail, in theory the FCC would force local TV stations to sell chunks of airwave spectrum rights to the U.S. government, which would then use them for public Wi-Fi networks.
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First Great Western and the Department for Transport pointed out that passengers getting on and off at one of the stations named in the report might not necessarily have bought their tickets at that station, which could explain the low numbers.
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