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Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21503) • London, England 29 Jan 25

On my way to the Millennium Bridge you pass two Blackfriars bridges. In the top photo you can see, on the left, the modern Blackfriars rail bridge and on the right is the Blackfriars road bridge and between them are the red...

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Vinyl Junkie #12 - Arrival

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43579) • Denver, Colorado 15 Mar 20

File these guys under the Never Made it as Big as they Should Have category. Rail, the 80's metal band from Seattle (well, Bellevue, to be more precise) should have been huge; if you take a "big picture" look at 80's metal as a...

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An International Rail Station

Ron Rybs @Ronrybs (21503) • London, England 20 May 19

Hunting around for a place to have a cup, I ended up in London's Saint Pancras station, the UK's only international railway terminal... at the moment. Well, not really, there are a couple more along the route to the Channel...

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Preparing a Power Point

Val @valmnz (17095) • New Zealand 23 Nov 18

I've spent several hours today preparing a power point for a presentation I'm giving to a travel group on Monday. Although Australia is New Zealand's closest neighbour, many of the people in the group I'm speaking to have not...

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Travelling

Umar Ahmed @Mrgana1 (338) • Nigeria 22 Aug 17

We have different means of transportation ranging from air, water, road and rail. Which one do you consider more interesting when traveling

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Amtrak

Faye @FayeHazel (40230) • United States 24 Jul 17

So far I have only experienced rail travel once - and have found it to be a great experience. The attendants are helpful and polite, and the seats give you a lot of leg room. There are huge windows, though if the windows aren't...

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Favorite Bands You Might Not Know #6 - Rail

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43579) • Denver, Colorado 10 Mar 17

Obviously, the groups in my Favorite Bands You Might Not Know series either have, or had, released and sold records in their time, so people know of them, yet they've all flown under the radar of the general population. We are at...

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Train journey has its charm.

dpk262006 @dpk262006 (58679) • Delhi, India 3 Mar 17

Railway journey has its own charm. If you are travelling a long journey by train, you could enjoy the various scenarios on your way from green fields, forests, hills, rivers and bridges and what not. In the era of air travel and...

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Top 10 Favorite Opening Acts - Rail

Scott Ganschow @teamfreak16 (43579) • Denver, Colorado 9 May 16

#7 in my Top 10 Favorite Opening Acts series takes us to Seattle, home of 80's metal band Rail. You might remember an MTV contest in the 80's called The Basement Tapes. Against the band's wishes, a video tape was sent to the...

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Railway request stops in Britain

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 8 Mar 16

Despite living all my life in England, I had no idea that these rail stations still existed. Yesterday I took a trip over to my home town of Bolton, which involved catching the Clitheroe train from Manchester. As the train was...

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Let down by British Rail again

Koalemos @Asylum (47893) • Manchester, England 19 Nov 15

Today I decided to have a change from the usual stroll around Manchester city centre. While waiting for the Metrolink tram at my local station, I thought about visiting my home town of Bolton. Instead of staying on the tram a few...

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Some people have a job connected to travel

maximax8 @maximax8 (31042) • United Kingdom 15 Mar 13

I watched a program about a new train service in the Wales going from villages to Cardiff the big city. South Wales has many unemployed people due to the bad recession. The new train line needed some staff so they had some jobs...

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Pay us back now

LetranKnight25 @LetranKnight25 (33117) • Philippines 26 Sep 12

Wow, that's it. it's really visible with this territorial crisis in the South china Sea, even our current deals and investments with China are really into tense. recently, they have decided to cancelled out funding...

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Countries in your continent you haven't been to

maximax8 @maximax8 (31042) • United Kingdom 6 Sep 12

I haven't yet been to Iceland. I would have to fly there because I don't fancy going there by sea. I would like to visit Cyprus and that is another island. I would have to fly there and could do so on a low budget island. I wish...

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Living near to a train station

maximax8 @maximax8 (31042) • United Kingdom 4 Sep 12

For seven years I have lived within walking distance of a train station. From my bungalow I can walk down a close, cross the road and be on a flat pathway that takes me all the way to the train station. In addition my local train...

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Quite a challenge

maximax8 @maximax8 (31042) • United Kingdom 1 Aug 12

A man called Michael Hodson wanted to go on a challenging train trip taking one month. In that time he traveled by train all the way from Lisbon in Portugal to Siagon in Vietnam. That was more than 15,000 miles journey all by...

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US Senate kills national high speed rail. THANK YOU SCOTT WALKER!!

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 22 Sep 11

Many states have spent or budgeted millions to fund a plan that would connect US cities by a network of high speed trains. Before some states even got anything more than a promise that the money will be there, legislators have...

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Safe public transportation in your locality – Bus, Auto, taxi or any other

CSHINE @SHAMRACK (8576) • India 23 Mar 11

Here now days the public transportation is becoming much unsafe especially for the ladies and children. The rough driving of bus people, cunning autos drivers, robbing in taxies and so on goes the unsafe part of the...

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A one way flight

maximax8 @maximax8 (31042) • United Kingdom 14 Jan 11

Would you ever think of flying one way and then staying in a lovely place before coming home by train, bus and ferry? An example would be fly from London to Athens then to visit one of its islands. Then get a bus to the port then...

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High Speed Rail

3SnuggleBunnies @3SnuggleBunnies (16374) • United States 30 Jan 10

Do you think it'll ever happen in WI? They keep talking about all this Federal money to connect Milwaukee with Madison & the Racine & Kenosha areas as well. Though someone did have a valid point depending on where the stops are...

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