During December's three-day strike hundreds of children on the island used the steam train to get to school.
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Far in the distance, a neat line moves across the horizon, trailing puffs of cloud like a steam train.
In December a three-day strike led to hundreds of children on the island taking the steam train to school.
Before his dismissal of Katich, Harbhajan's enthusiasm was draining, now he was as eager as a toddler on a steam train.
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"On one of the 'bad weather' days it was lovely sunshine and we went out on a steam train for the day, " she said.
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.
Mahathir's great leisure-time activity is carpentry -- another pointer to his loner status -- and he is known to have constructed at least one serviceable boat as well as a functioning steam train.
"Take your head out of the sand and face up to reality because it will hit you between the eyes like a steam train if you don't wake up to it, " he said.
Yet as nonstop commerce has created a sleepless planet, hotels remain mired in conventions of the 1800s, when the steam train rolled in and out of town once each afternoon and again the following morning.
Some stood with their mouths wide open in surprise while others clapped and cheered as they all took in the bizarre sight of a steam train emerging from a tunnel only to quickly disappear again.
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The Portbury line was reopened in December 2001, when the then Transport Minister John Speller joined 150 people on a steam train journey through the Avon Gorge from Bristol's Parson Street station to Royal Portbury Dock.
In one, he captures the experience of being from a "jerkwater" town: a village so small that steam-train crews had to "jerk" water up from streams or from people holding buckets along the tracks because there was no water tower from which to refill the engine.
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Visitors enter via a steam-engine Hogwarts Express train into Hogsmeade village.
Steps from the hotel's entrance is a petite train station from which chugs a steam engine taking you to nearby sleepy towns, one with a 14th-century abbey.
As the railroad lovers rebuild their trains, work on Train World is building up a head of steam.
Not surprising then, that the Nations Cup train is building such a powerful head of steam that football fever is sure to reach epidemic proportions by Christmas.
The platform was packed - not only with the fortunate passengers who had their Willy Wonka-esque burgundy and gold tickets, but also with steam enthusiasts who had braved the bitter cold to catch a glimpse of this majestic train.
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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.
Nevertheless his love affair with steam trains continues and he travels around England with other rail enthusiasts to go on heritage train journeys and wears the watch given to his father on his retirement.
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Whereas the Blue Train is pulled by no-nonsense diesel and electric engines, Rovos offers passengers a retro whiff of steam, though only for the first hour into or out of Pretoria.
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