You can cover the 120-odd miles between London and Birmingham in a train in 84 minutes.
Mr. Assefa lost his leg above the knee in a train accident early last year.
You could never be sure, but some stranger might try to start up a conversation in a train.
Claunch had been at the Healing Hands group home for 18 months, owner John Garcia told KTRK. He lost an arm and a leg in a train accident.
In June 1945, 102 died in a train crash in Assling, south of Munich, when an American troop transport train crashed into a train carrying German prisoners of war.
According to that same Bloomberg Markets profile, Margarita was born in Russia and was raised by her grandfather after the death of her parents in a train accident when she was just seven.
When a gun goes off in a train car, the goal is to alert a train operator and the security guard at the next station as to which car the shot was fired in.
On a recent day in a train station, commuter Alejandro Gonzales said that a million more people are now crowded onto the subways since Transantiago did away with many of the old bus routes.
Police said they prevented the bombing in a train station in Madrid last Christmas Eve, arresting the alleged plotters and seizing those who were planning to carry out the attack hours before it was to have taken place, Acebes said.
In a city that sees 48.8 million visitors each year, the best way to claim a corner of one's own may be to hide it behind a secret phone booth, underneath a pizza stand, beyond the kitchen, on the other side of the wine cellar or in a train car.
When a British man was arrested last spring for grabbing a microphone from a candidate in front of a train station in a Tokyo suburb and shouting, "Japanese elections are too noisy, " he found an outpouring of support online from Japanese people who were also quietly fed up with the racket.
In 2004 a train derailed there, killing seven, and in May a man on a moped died on the level crossing.
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Felicia Garcia, a 15-year-old New York student, threw herself in front of a train in October, allegedly after being taunted by multiple football players at her high school.
They have just endured a week in which Britain's newspapers have revelled in a dreadful train crash.
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Smoking, once prohibited only in a few train carriages or sections of aircraft, is now banned totally in many offices, on most public transport and even in many bars.
Police in New York have arrested a woman in connection with the death of a man pushed in front of a subway train.
The last significant train collision involving Metro-North occurred in 1988 when a train engineer was killed in Mount Vernon, N.
Sitting with a laptop, a phone and a decent internet connection in a comfy seat on a train is, these days, almost as productive as being in a nice office in a comfy chair with a computer, phone and decent internet connection.
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The residents of Hannover are abuzz and enjoying the international limelight in a sleepy industrial city best known in Germany as a train connection hub and convention destination.
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Similarly, after Wesley Autrey-- aka the Subway Hero -- leaped onto New York City subway tracks to save someone who'd fallen in front of a train back in 2007, many observers later pointed to Autrey's Navy service to explain why this otherwise unexceptional man sprang to action while everyone else simply watched.
In 1982 a train hit a bus when crossing a railway track, killing 39 people.
And in 2002, a train caught fire in Cairo, killing 373 people.
For the chance at one day riding in a new train tunnel beneath the Hudson River, commuter rail riders may have a strange entity to thank: superstorm Sandy.
He had been convicted on June 7th of taking part in an attack on a train in southern Cambodia in 1994, and kidnapping and killing three young western backpackers: Jean-Michel Braquet from France, Mark Slater from Britain and David Wilson from Australia.
New York (CNN) -- For the second time in a month, a man has been shoved to his death in front of a train on a New York City subway platform, police said.
In 1996, 57 people were killed and more than 500 were injured when a bomb ripped through a packed commuter train in a Colombo, Sri Lanka, suburb.
The death is the second fatality this month in which a victim was pushed in front of a subway train.
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So the community fought back: a disciple of a local Shinto priest was called in to train a crack team of wrestling coaches, and Kosaka organized a sumo club that wouldn't contravene the Education Ministry rulebook.
Gigahertz computers are fed by Web pipes large enough to suck a freight train in a microsecond.
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