Archive for March, 2009

Shaun Walker: Trains run like clockwork but shoving babushkas drive you to point of insanity (Independent)

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

As a seasoned traveller on both London's Tube and Moscow's metro, I find it difficult to say which one is worse.

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Train Chartering First to Offer WiFi in Private Charter Trains (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Train Chartering is the first to offer WiFi on private charter trains in the UK. The company organises charter trains for hire throughout the rail network for corporate clients, associations, travel companies and individuals.

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Train Chartering First to Offer WiFi in Private Charter Trains (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

Giant model train set is becoming major German tourist draw (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

HAMBURG - It's billed as the world's largest model train set - a miniature world that snakes along 12 kilometres of track, amid fields, cities, even the snowcapped Swiss Alps.

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Giant model train set is becoming major German tourist draw (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

Giant Train Set Pulls In The Crowds (ABC News)

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Massive model railway becoming one of Germany's most popular tourist attractions

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Massive model railroad set becoming one of Germany’s most popular tourist attractions (WHO-TV 13 Des Moines)

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

HAMBURG (AP) — It's billed as the world's largest model train set — a miniature world that snakes along eight miles (12 kilometers) of track, amid fields, cities, even the snowcapped Swiss Alps.

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Campaigning on board trains in Madhya Pradesh (New Kerala)

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

By Ashok Pal, Gwailor, Mar 26 : Candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) devised a unique way of campaigning by using a train to propagate their agenda for the upcoming elections.

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Campaigning on board trains in Madhya Pradesh (New Kerala)

Model train enthusiasts on track for Shirley fair (Boston Globe)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

This Sunday, the trains in Shirley will all be running on time. That's because the Nashua Valley Railroad Association is hosting its 44th annual model railroad show and open house at the Shirley Middle School and at the association's club headquarters in Phoenix Park, about a quarter-mile walk from the school.

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Gloucester to bloom with festival and show (Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

The two-day 2009 Gloucester Daffodil Festival will kick off Saturday morning and will feature several new events such as a motorcycle show, model train show and a remote control car show.

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Gloucester to bloom with festival and show (Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal)

Nine years, £8m and six miles of track later twin brothers present the world’s biggest train set (Daily Mail)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Twin brothers are on track to building the world's most elaborate train set after spending a mammoth nine years building their model toy.

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Nine years, £8m and six miles of track later twin brothers present the world's biggest train set (Daily Mail)

Trainspotter told he was a ‘security risk’ (Macclesfield Express)

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

A TRAINSPOTTER was fuming after being ordered to stop taking photos at Macclesfield train station – because he might pose a "security risk". Edmund Tan, a retired chartered accountant from Prestbury, was approached on the platform by a Virgin Trains worker who demanded he put his cameras away.

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