railways
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382019)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 May 25
I wrote about the tea and sugar train which carried supplies to those working on the Trans-Australian Railway. Railways have played a very important role in Australia but there have been a number of problems over the decades,...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382019)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Aug 24
On Sunday, we took Vince’s older brother and his wife to our old home town. Vince’s family grew up in the town and three of the five brothers worked with the railways. His father was a railway guard and they lived across the road...
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Pitstop
@pitstop (15551)
• Australia
28 Apr 23
We had to catch an early morning train a couple of weeks ago. We reached the railway station well before 6 am and it was still so crowded. There were trains coming in every 5 minutes and lots of people getting on and off them. I...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382019)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Sep 20
I grew up on a farm in Western Australia and our nearest town was Narrogin. It was a centre for a number of railway tracks and the railways played a huge role in the area, carting all manner of goods to towns further out and in...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382019)
• Rockingham, Australia
15 Aug 20
Vince is one of seven children, of which he is the second youngest. His father was a railway guard in Western Australia and the railways played a large part in the lives of the family. His oldest brother is ten years older than...
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Avinash
@avi256 (8515)
• Pune, India
11 Aug 20
Indian railways confirmed today, that all regular passenger trains including interstate and intercity express/mail trains which were earlier suspended till 12 August in the wake of novel coronavirus pandemic in the country, are...
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DJ
@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
16 Sep 19
I thought you might find this interesting. It was interesting and amusing to read how the people reacted to this large machine barreling down the tracks with some magical force.
I can almost...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
16 Jan 19
1/.Speed Writing Haiku
How quickly can I do this?
Less than a minute
2/. Premature blue sky
Better than dark cloud Winter
Doubt if it will last
3/. Icarus plummets
At least he got off the ground
My wings never stretch
4/....
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382019)
• Rockingham, Australia
31 Oct 17
While we were staying at our son’s place in Ireland, he introduced us to a number of board games. One that we ended up buying was Ticket To Ride.
There are a number of versions of this but we have the version which uses a map of...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
2 Oct 17
2017 - Spoiler alerts
The third of ten short stories based on the work of Philip K Dick, and the best of the series so far, thanks especially to the lovely performance by Timothy Spall.
He is a railway station porter, station...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
20 Oct 16
The sign depicts a classic steam train emerging from a tunnel. The sign is actually named after a railway station rather than the train. The station was actually misnamed Gammer Lane though it was located on Gammul Lane. The...
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k sridharprasad
@yugasini (12892)
• Secunderabad, India
1 Apr 16
Hi Mylot Friends,
South Central railways is launching first glass doomed coaches for scenic routes, the first train starting from Visakhapatnam to Araku Valley. Now the travelers enjoy the entire ride with scenic spots, caves,...
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Justin Leander Quigley
@Leanderjustin24 (111)
• Kolkata, India
8 Jan 16
So I was on my way to work this morning and it's really cold in the morning.
I happened to find a old man just sit by the railway station like covered with rags and probably hadn't eaten or such since last night, he looked in a...
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sweetlady10
@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
14 Jul 08
If we could have a strong public transportation system like Europe or some of Asian countries, we would not have faced this problem today of high gas price. But no one is proposing for a good public transportation system yet in...
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saivenkaat802003
@saivenkaat802003 (4823)
• India
13 Jul 08
This is really disgusting to read. What new ways does the miscreants find to earn money.. Stealing fans from the trains..
I wonder how they miscreants could do such a things publicly without getting noticed.
Suppose if i...
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