The carrier said the move to Glasgow would be more "convenient" for existing customers and was a "a step towards future passenger and route growth".

BBC: Passengers at Prestwick Airport

Wizz Air said the move to Glasgow would be more "convenient" for existing customers and was a "a step towards future passenger and route growth".

BBC: Glasgow Airport poaches Polish flights from Prestwick

In her outstanding book on photographer Edward Muybridge, Rebecca Solnit recounts a death, during the first running of a passenger railroad in 1830, because a man could not step off the track in time from a long-seen locomotive going perhaps 30 miles an hour.

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But there is something about a small town that has never gone a single day, in almost 150 years, without a passenger train pulling in and pausing to see if anyone would like to step out onto the streets of Garden City, or if anyone from Garden City would like to climb aboard and join the other cross-continental travelers...

CNN: A Kansas town tries to keep the train coming through

On a General Motors test track in Warren, Michigan an engineer sitting in the passenger seat of a black Cadillac CTS gives a reporter the following instructions: Step on the gas and drive 30mph toward another CTS parked in the same lane.

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On a general motors test track in Warren, Mich. an engineer sitting in the passenger seat of a black Cadillac CTS gives a reporter the following instructions: Step on the gas and drive 30mph toward another CTS parked in the same lane.

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The government will step up security at railway stations, where it will introduce random baggage and passenger screening.

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