Securing the Thameslink contract was regarded as crucial for the Derby site - the UK's last remaining train factory - as most of its current orders will soon be finished.
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Officials in Khotan had been celebrating too, with the launch at the end of June of the remote city's first passenger-train service.
At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
In the richest country in the world, the only line that passes for "high-speed rail" is Amtrak's built-too-wide Acela train, which runs between Boston, New York, and Washington at an average speed of about 80mph.
And that's true at high-end jobs, but it's also true -- we want to do more to train skilled workers even if they don't have a four-year degree.
The government funded the Arpanet, the grand-daddy of the modern Internet, and much of the basic research in the U.S. State-supported universities train much of the high-tech workforce.
That's handy for the train-schedule app, since Mr. Strange recently added a feature that lets users search for the nearest station to a postal code but he's not sure anybody needs or uses it.
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China already has the world's fastest long-range passenger train (the "Harmony" averages 220mph on the Guangzhou-Wuhan route, compared with 170mph for France's TGV), and soon expects to have the world's largest high-speed rail network too.
We have a laugh, we have a crack but when it's time to get down to business we get down and train hard -and that's all down to Rob.
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To experience the best leg of Via's cross-country service, take the Snow Train, which runs from Vancouver's grand beaux arts railroad station through a series of stunning snowbound mountain ranges to the hamlet of Jasper in the middle of 4, 200-square-mile Jasper National Park (home to some of the world's best, least-crowded skiing, at Marmot Basin).
For kids of all ages, there is a custom-built train with an adult-size conductor's seat that snakes around the property.
The hawk-eyed engineers work for Bombardier Transportation, the train-building arm of Montreal's Bombardier--perhaps better known in the U.S. for the other half of its business: its regional and business jets.
Liverpool have finally arrived in Madrid after a 24-hour trip by coach, train and plane for Thursday's Europa League semi-final first leg match against Atletico.
The 31-year-old had to train alone after arriving at Real's Valdebebas headquarters an hour-and-a-half late and may be fined by boss Fabio Capello.
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Their brigade -- based at North Carolina's Fort Bragg -- is among the first specifically assigned to train Afghan security and military forces.
Federal investigators are trying to determine what caused Friday's derailment of a northbound Metro-North train that struck Metro-North train that was headed south.
The train-building industry's lag in adopting practices common in manufacturing stems from its special legacy.
Since it started up in 1989, Vos' venture has been blowing steam in the face of Spoornet's own luxury choo-choo, the Blue Train, whose pedigree is enviable.
Like the pre-election bombings in Madrid's train system last year, those today were timed to capitalize upon and affect a major political event: the G-8 summit meeting being hosted by Britain at Gleneagles, Scotland.
The finding by the safety board isn't a definitive determination of the cause of last week's accident, in which one Metro-North train derailed and was then sideswiped by another train, injuring more than 70 people.
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Well, it's so friendly and everything is to hand - the train, the bus, the school, the library.
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Portugal has a gaping current account deficit, a shrinking economy and 7.5% of GDP's worth of austerity in train, for 2011-12 alone.
Extensive work was carried out on the train's parts by a Hertfordshire-based company but the reassembly was all done in the Douglas workshops.
Whether it's televised train wrecks, musical scares, computer-generated disasters or videogame snooze fests, the Star Wars franchise has seen its share of bad ideas.
Another draw, says Laura Cozik , founder of the Team Lipstick triathlon club, and CNN Fit Nation's Athletic Director, is the ability to cross-train.
"It's a little worrying doing so well at the World Championships because it's too long a chunk of time to hold your peak form, but it's not enough time to come down and re-train, " he explained.
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They include compounds that block bad genes responsible for spreading cancer into the bones, chemicals that prompt prostate cancer cells to destroy themselves and vaccines that train the body's killer T-cells to seek and destroy tumor cells.
No longer a long-distance train terminal, Grand Central serves commuters going to and from New York's northern suburbs via Metro-North Railroad.
The president re-created Lincoln's inaugural journey to Washington by train and used his Bible for the ceremony.
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