GB rail timetable summer edition 11
GB rail timetable summer edition 11

Author: Network Rail

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2011-05-16

Total Pages: 3268

ISBN-13: 9780117069657

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Published by TSO with permission from Network Rail (owners of Britain's national railway and stations) the GB Rail Timetable Summer Edition 2011 holds details on passenger services operated by the Train Companies, who work together closely to provide a co-ordinated rail network offering a range of travel opportunities. Details and identification codes are shown within the Train Operator pages of this book. The GB Rail Timetable contains rail services operated over the GB rail network, together with rail and shipping connections with Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands. The GB Rail Timetable also includes the Eurostar summer timetable, valid until 10 Decmeber 2011. Network Rail operate 18 major stations but the remainder are operated on their behalf by the Train Operating Companies. Details are shown in the station index.

The Sunset Limited
The Sunset Limited

Author: Cormac McCarthy

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2011-02-04

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 0330535757

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Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it. Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Computers in Railways X
Computers in Railways X

Author: John J. Allan

Publisher: WIT Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 1009

ISBN-13: 1845641779

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This book updates the use of computer-based techniques, promoting their general awareness throughout the business management, design, manufacture and operation of railways and other advanced passenger, freight and transit systems. Including papers from the Tenth International Conference on Computer System Design and Operation in the Railway and Other Transit Systems, the book will be of interest to railway management, consultants, railway engineers (including signal and control engineers), designers of advanced train control systems and computer specialists. Themes of interest include: Planning; Human Factors; Computer Techniques, Management and languages; Decision Support Systems; Systems Engineering; Electromagnetic Compatibility and Lightning; Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS); Freight; Advanced Train Control; Train Location; CCTV/Communications; Operations Quality; Timetables; Traffic Control; Global Navigation using Satellite Systems; Online Scheduling and Dispatching; Dynamics and Wheel/Rail Interface; Power Supply; Traction and Maglev; Obstacle Detection and Collision Analysis; Railway Security.

The Times Train Tracks
The Times Train Tracks

Author: The Times Mind Games

Publisher: Times Books

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780008301699

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This challenging visual puzzle will appeal to lovers of logic and deduction brain teasers. How To Play: A map grid shows two towns, typically A and B. The objective of the puzzle is to lay down tracks to connect the two towns. Numbers around the outside of the grid tell you how many pieces of track are to be placed in each row and column. You can only use straight (horizontal and vertical) and curved (right and left) rails and the track cannot cross over itself. There is something very satisfying in the laying down of tracks. The puzzles are arranged with varying levels of difficulty, where difficulty is largely dependent on the size of the map grid (from 6x6 to 10x10). Puzzles included cover three levels of difficulty: 70 Easy, 70 Moderate, and 60 Difficult.

Railways and the Victorian Imagination
Railways and the Victorian Imagination

Author: Michael J. Freeman

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780300079708

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Discusses the cultural and social effect that the railway had on nineteenth century society in Great Britain

Railway Transportation Systems
Railway Transportation Systems

Author: Christos N. Pyrgidis

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1482262169

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Incorporates More Than 25 Years of Research and ExperienceRailway Transportation Systems: Design, Construction and Operation presents a comprehensive overview of railway passenger and freight transport systems, from design through to construction and operation. It covers the range of railway passenger systems, from conventional and high speed inter

You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Author: Howard Zinn

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0807045020

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If you’re both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a “new generation of activists and ordinary people who search for hope in the darkness” (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor). Is change possible? Where will it come from? Can we actually make a difference? How do we remain hopeful? Howard Zinn—activist, historian, and author of A People’s History of the United States—was a participant in and chronicler of some of the landmark struggles for racial and economic justice in US history. In his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn reflects on more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from his teenage years as a laborer in Brooklyn to teaching at Spelman College, where he emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. A former bombardier in World War II, he later became an outspoken antiwar activist, spirited protestor, and champion of civil disobedience. Throughout his life, Zinn was unwavering in his belief that “small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” With a foreword from activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, this revised edition will inspire a new generation of readers to believe that change is possible.

Optimalization of Mass Rapid Transit System
Optimalization of Mass Rapid Transit System

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Publisher: Danny Tandela

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 6023710298

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Paris Metropolitan is the major transporting system that serves millions of commuters everyday in metropolitan areas. The networks are high frequency service established mainly in underground tunnels or on elevated tracks, separated from other traffic. There are 16 lines that are mostly in underground railway tunnels stretching for 214 km and also 301 stations, in which 62 of them are to facilitate transfers to other lines. The author will start by evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of this transporting system. Effectiveness in engineering terms means doing the right things that are related to the quality of the service. The service quality in this research is related to the end users. Meanwhile, efficiency in engineering terms means doing the right things that are related to energy consumption. The typical inter-station procedure starts with a train accelerating from a station to the maximum speed and maintaining the speed until it is necessary to hit the brakes to a halt for the next station. Usually, the running time is the shortest and the energy consumption is the highest when the train is running closest to the maximum permissible speed throughout the trip. The traction motors are allowed to be turned off once the train accelerates above a certain speed if coasting is allowed. With the application of coasting, the momentum of the train will carry it through and the brake will be needed to bring the train to a stop at the next station. The inter-station run time is longer but the energy saving can be achieved due to the fact that the train has spent lesser time on motoring.

Transportation Systems Analysis and Assessment
Transportation Systems Analysis and Assessment

Author: Stefano De Luca

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-01-22

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1839685611

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The transportation system is the backbone of any social and economic system, and is also a very complex system in which users, transport means, technologies, services, and infrastructures have to cooperate with each other to achieve common and unique goals.The aim of this book is to present a general overview on some of the main challenges that transportation planners and decision makers are faced with. The book addresses different topics that range from user's behavior to travel demand simulation, from supply chain to the railway infrastructure capacity, from traffic safety issues to Life Cycle Assessment, and to strategies to make the transportation system more sustainable.