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The clumping of commuter buses and trains could be avoided with a dash of meanness from operators and some small sacrifices from passengers
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Why three buses come at once, and how to avoid it (New Scientist)
Dr Sarah Baillie of the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has won the title of Most Innovative Teacher of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards 2009.
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Always womb for innovation (Business Weekly)
The popularity of Virgin's Pendolino trains means they are set to be Hornby's biggest-selling train model for a third year running. The popularity of the model version of the Pendolino is mirrored by the fact that thousands of passengers have already bought tickets for travel on Virgin Trains services over the festive period.
Continue here: Pendolino set to be Biggest Selling Train Model for a Third Year Running (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
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Family Calendar (The Downers Grove Sun)
Pheonix Copley found the family pool to be a tad ... surprising. Oh, not the pool itself. The location. When Copley walked into the home of Jeff and Celeste Corbin in Simi Valley for the first time last August, he noticed the pool was in the backyard. Yep, outside. All exposed to the elements. “It was a little surprising to me,” Copley said with a grin. “I wasn’t used to seeing pools outside ...
Crikey readers love their train spotting and weigh in on the possibility of fast trains in Australia. Plus, what is happening with ASIO and the difficulties with the abortion debate.
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Fast trainspotting (Crikey)
London, Shanghai and several other international cities have had it for long; closer home, Delhi will have one before the Commonwealth Games.
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Fliers can check in at Metro station, zip to airport (IE via Yahoo! India News)
Holiday Festival of Trains at the B&O’s Ellicott City Station Friday, November 27, 2009 – January 31, 2010 Celebrating the holiday joy of toy trains and model railroading for over 25 years, the B&O’s Ellicott City Station brings the season to life with a new multi-tiered O-scale model train layout and a classic G-scale model train layout of Thomas the Tank Engine in miniature.
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Holiday Festival of Trains at the B&O's Ellicott City Station (The Capital)
DICK Swan is among the last of his kind. Before the cattle trucks and trains began carting cattle from the stations to the marketplace, Mr Swan was a North West drover and he spent almost half a century moving the beasts across the region.
The proposed structure of the new Auckland council will corporatise the city and is a betrayal of Auckland's democracy, says Labour’s Auckland Issues spokesperson Phil Twyford.
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Super city corporatisation a shocker (Scoop.co.nz)