As the City of New York struggled to deal with the effects of hurricane Sandy Tuesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg closed schools for a third day and declined to offer a solid timetable for the resumption of power or rail service to the city, which was hard hit by the storm on Monday night.
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New Haven line trains switch to third-rail power in Pelham, N.
Last year it yielded 21 million tons of low-quality coal that was hauled by rail to power stations slaking the country's desperate hunger for energy.
Estonians and Latvians fear the dispute may block better road, rail and power links to the south-east that will end their isolation from the rest of Europe.
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Transport Scotland said the freight service would provide a more efficient route for coal from the west of Scotland to Longannet Power Station and reduce rail congestion on the Forth Bridge.
Billions of dollars of needed road, port, rail, power, water and airport projects are behind schedule, a familiar Indonesian story made worse by the turn inward on some high-visibility deals where global contracting could help.
These should include replacing ageing power stations, investment in rail and Heathrow's third runway.
Network Rail has upgraded power supplies and signalling systems and lengthened 41 platforms at 12 stations on the Midland main line north of London to accommodate the new trains which are nearly 270 yards (250m) long.
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Many branch lines use diesel engines and the Harlem-Hudson line uses a third rail system to draw power.
Network Rail is replacing overhead power lines installed 30 years ago, reducing the number of delays and cancellations caused by faults.
Power lines and trees fell on rail lines across the state, and sections of the New Jersey Coast Line were washed away.
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Power lines and trees fell on transit rail routes across the state and the storm surge damaged bridges.
Mr. Srivastava said apart from production issues, there are also significant difficulties in moving coal from mines to power stations due to a shortage of rail wagons for hauling the dry fuel.
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Once the coal is offloaded, some will immediately be sent out via rail freight trains to the Drax power station.
Faulty components on power lines are being blamed for bringing chaos to rail travel through Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire over the last fortnight.
However, it is not just the U.S. that hungers for more or better roads, rail, ocean- and airports, power, water and telecom networks.
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The train operators claim that privatising the rail network as a monopoly has given disproportionate power to Railtrack.
The company, for example, was recently engaged to build power substations for the city of Shanghai's light rail system.
The new system is suitable for numerous industry sectors including highway transportation, marine, rail and remote industries such as mining and distributed power generation.
"Roads, metro-rail, increased water supply, availability of more power - these are the aspects in which the government is taking active steps, " he explains.
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Unlike the last Winter Games in Vancouver, which was integrated within the city, Sochi has had to start from scratch -- new roads, rail, hotels, as well as an improved power grid.
The British ships were sent down to South Africa and then up the continent as far as they could be taken by rail, and after that by the sheer human power of 2, 000 labourers who hauled and cut through the jungle, eventually getting them to the lake which became the site of imperial contest.
Michael Grisso of the Alliance for Rail Competition, a lobby group, says that monopoly power is the problem.
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"Moreover, in places that do generate electricity from renewable sources, it would be more cost-effective to use that electricity to power electric or plug-in hybrid cars than high-speed rail, " O'Toole said.
Announcing they were writing to the Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, the lawyers said that a single super-inquiry into two of the worst rail disasters in British history would provide the investigation with the power it needs to force through major changes in safety.
The organisations funding the redevelopment are Network Rail, Wakefield Council, Metro, Railway Heritage Trust, Grand Central Rail, Northern Rail, Groundwork Wakefield, Garfield Weston Foundation, Headley Trust and Eggborough Power Station.
His aim is to show that he is the one who can make the slogan "we're all in it together" meaningful by pledging to use the power of government to stand up to vested interests - banks, energy, pension and rail companies - as well as harnessing the Olympic spirit of working together to repair Britain.
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