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On the last Sunday of July (Reek Sunday), devout pilgrims follow his original route, traditionally without shoes.
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Guidebooks detailing every yard of the original route, a monthly magazine and later websites reinforced the effort.
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Wherever possible he tries to take roads like those on the original route--narrow, twisting and today largely untraveled.
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On some estimates, about 80% of the original route is still driveable, even though it is now fragmented into frontage roads, small-town streets, rural highways and isolated patches of asphalt.
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TfL said the special steam train to commemorate the first Tube journey will carry up to 300 people and run between Olympia and Moorgate, a slightly longer journey than the original route.
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In 1995 came the first small victory, when states began marking the original road with Route 66 historic signs.
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Cambridgeshire County Council said its original contractor had left the route from St Ives to Cambridge with a number of "major defects".
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The route also passes by the original Tudor buildings, built in 1417, of King Edward VI's school, where young Shakespeare was educated.
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Her two-month voyage from Europe required permission from the United States (which provided the original uranium) and approval from countries along the route.
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Starting with the original Napster, the internet continues to prove that it can route around any breakdown, including legal ones.
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In the meantime, original 1950s buses with the open platform in the rear are still in service on parts of route 9, running between Trafalgar Square and Kensington, and route 15, running between Trafalgar Square and Tower Hill.
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