The last train journey during the last Durga Puja vacation remains fresh in my mind. The journey remained important for the reason that it was a rare opportunity for me in student life. The half yearly examination was to be held after the holidays as per the notification. The news brought cheer and I eagerly waited for the opportunity to have a trek to Delhi‚ the capital of India. The prospect of visiting Delhi with my parents filled my heart with joy. I went with other family members from Cuttack
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purchasing the tickets seemed to be a difficult one. In order to have an idea of the difficulties of a second class journey‚ we intended to travel by second class. We found line ‚ two of us stood in the line and it was with great difficulty that ten tickets were purchased. Then we went to the platform and found that the train was above half-an-hour late. We had to wait for the train on the platform. This long wait was very tiresome. I passed the time in looking at the scene around me‚ I observed
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only train plying from X to Y‚ I had no other choice. The line is a narrow gauge. It passed through farming country and it mainly carried farm produce‚ although passengers were often using it too. At every station on the way to be loaded and unloaded involving much shunting which took a lot of time. It took nearly four hours for a distance of 60 km. I traveled once by that train. At first I could not believe that a train (in this age) could go so slowly. I had to put up with it. The train moved
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Espinoza September 21‚ 2010 ARTS 1301 Essay #1 “The Tube Train‚” by Cyril E. Power is a color linocut painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As the title suggest it’s a painting of the inside of a train filled with elegant people from the early 1900’s. The first thing that caught my eye when looking at this painting was the vantage point in the front of the train‚ which the artist used to illustrate the view of the train as if you are sitting in the back looking forward. The feeling
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A Desert Journey Waiting can be a special form of torture‚ worse than any momentary pain. The combination of frustration and boredom can send even the bravest heart into a state of panic. Our first journey will bring us face to face with the infinite. Take a moment to prepare yourself‚ and eternal desert... 1. You are riding a camel across the vast and empty expanse of a seemingly endless dessert. You have ridden until you are near exhaustion. What words would you say to the camel that has
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The Train from Rhodesia is a short story written from a third person perspective yet she is reflecting on her life in that given moment. The train symbolizes life and the tracks symbolize the path you are on. Courage and strength is symbolized by the lion. The Train from Rhodesia is a journey of the failure of self-realization. The woman realizes that her “wonderful” life isn’t so wonderful. She has money and a new husband that wants to make her happy and buy her what she wants. The woman wasn’t
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Train delays Abstract: We have all at one point experienced a time when the train was delayed. Living next to the train station gave me an opportunity and advantage to collect data in a short period. Over five days I was able to collect the number of times the train was late going eastbound and vice versa. I was able to conclude that average time for trains going westbound was greater than eastbound. In the future I would like to consider the time it was delayed due to the snow because that
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Travelling by trains is cheap and comfortable compared to buses and planes. So we find a railway station a place of great hustle and bustle. We come across people from different parts of the country‚ in different fashions and colours in the station. Once I happened to be at the Old Delhi Railway Station to see off my friend. He was going to Kolkata by the Kalka Mail. The waiting hall was fully crowded with passengers. There was a long queue in front of the booking window. Everyone seemed to
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Essay Thesis: Maglev trains will be the future of transportation providing benefits for the environment‚ society‚ and economic benefits. In our world today we have many problems. Problems that we are facing are environmental‚ social‚ and economic issues. This is due to the fact that traveling to work has become a hassle and when your using your car it also causes environmental damage. When people travel in their cars they have to fill it up with gas‚ which we have seen‚ gas prices increasing
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Maglev Trains In this quickly developing world‚ transportation is becoming bigger and bigger an issue. Therefore‚ it is only natural that demands for it are growing rapidly. To meet this demand‚ yet another form of transportation has been introduced: the Maglev train. Maglev‚ derived from the term magnetic levitation‚ is a method of propulsion that uses magnetic levitation to propel vehicles with electromagnets rather than with wheels‚ which causes friction and can wear out the rails. With maglev
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