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    inside: the quick paced footsteps of travelers searching for their train or train times and the frantic voice of the tannoy alerting people where to go. Ammoungst the myriad of confused people‚ there stands a frail old lady‚ her hair a delecate grey colour like when‚ on a cloudless night‚ the moon shines upon water. Glasses perched on nose‚ she scans the plethora of train facts and figures to try locate the stand where her train is. To the right of the old lady‚ next to an out of date dull red phone

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    You are probably aware that train station offences in Victoria increased by 27.4% from 2010 to 2011. Rising to a total of 5078 incidents through the year. Victoria police’s most recent crime statistics have revealed horrible issues‚ forming a greater sense of fear for commuters. Despite the critics‚ I am here today to explain to you‚ representatives of the media‚ that Protective Service Officers are the answer in conjunction with improve infrastructure. Therefore I am suggesting that we need a balance

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    Penn Station Analysis

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    it’s predecessors. The train station sheer size is noteworthy. Standing taller than most of it’s neighbors‚ Penn Station was also a block and a half long facing Seventh Ave. In the lower left hand corner of Figure 1‚ the viewer can see that the train tracks enter under the train station and post office adjacent. The placement of the tracks under the buildings‚ logically makes the most sense in the city. There was no way that at the time of construction could five plus train tracks fit on the street

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    places to go. In most stories‚ a train station can give readers a feel of a transition occurring in the story. The isolated train station reflects upon Jig feeling lonely‚ while in her current situation. The train station creates a fork in the road for Jig and the American. The railroad tracks are the physical paths that must be chosen to make the big decision. The physical path of tracks would represent a path of life. While the American and Jig are waiting at the train station‚ a moment of suspense

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    this one girl. They were inseparable. And when they graduated‚ she went off to Carnegie Mellon....So he stays in the hometown‚ and they begin their long-distance relationship. The plan is‚ on the third Sunday of every month‚ he’ll train out‚ spend a week‚ then train back. They do this for four years...Two months before she’s going to graduate‚ he’s got this job digging graves‚ and he comes across....a steamer trunk containing silver ingots....many‚ many silver ingots. Now‚ my mother’s uncle--being

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    Indian Railway Problems

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    Name | Designation | Contact Numbers | Office of the Minister of Railways | Dr. C. P. Joshi  mr@rb.railnet.gov.in | Minister (Addl. Charge) | +91 11 23386645‚23381213 ( Off.)  +91 11 23387333 (Fax) +91 11 23383676 (Fax) | | | Office of the Minister of State for Railways | Shri K. H. Muniyappa  khmuni@sansad.nic.in | Minister of State | +91 11 23388190‚ 23382490 ( Off.)  +91 11 23381634 (Fax) +91 11 23792703‚ 23794481 ( Res.)  +91 11 23794481 (Fax) | | | Shri P. Anand Kumar

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    CUSTOMER SATISFACTION REPORT BASED ON THE LATEST NATIONAL PASSENGER SURVEY (SPRING 2011) AUTHOR: ONUR AYAN DATE: 27/10/2011 TO: MANAGERS OF SOUTH WEST TRAINS Summary In this report we have analysed the results of National Passenger Survey. The research gives us vital information about our customers’ opinions on our services. From the analysis it could be seen that the recent priority issues are the lack of employees in direct service areas‚ parking place problems and physical conditions

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    a day that occupies a bigger space in my heart‚ the day of my eighteenth birthday. I suppose I could say this is possibly the happiest day in my life so far. The three factors that made this day so special were: a birthday cake‚ my friends‚ and a train station. First factor was the birthday cake. Not an ordinary one‚ but a torte au pommes‚ the best cake this side of the Pyrenees‚ and possible the reason why so many people came to my birthday parties. There was never a birthday without a cake‚

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    Grand Central station. A train station is often a symbol of a place with a lot of hellos or goodbyes‚ and in this particular case‚ it starts with a hello. The main character Charlie and his father‚ has not been able to see each other in about three years‚ because of a hardly divorce between Charlie’s parents. Charlie is traveling from his grandmother’s in the Adirondacks to a cottage on the cape‚ and mid travel‚ he would have to wait an hour and a half for another train at Grand Central. Therefore

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    The Brown Wasps

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    childhood in Nebraska and how the train stations used to be and how the pigeons would fly around waiting for people boarding the trains to feed them. Loren Eiseley once planted a tree with his father‚ when he was a boy and he acts like it has been there the whole time. Years later he returned to the house where they had planted the tree and realized that the tree he had been imaging all his life was gone. In the beginning Eiseley describes the appearance of the train station and tells of the men that

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