Rail transport
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| - | "Sometimes the wrong [[train]] will get you to the right [[station]]." --''[[The Lunchbox]]'' | ||
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| "By the [[rail transport|railway]] space is annihilated, and only time remains. [...] In three hours and a half one can now go to Orleans, in the same time to Rouen. What will it be when the lines to Belgium and Germany shall be finished and connected with the railways of those countries? I seem to see the mountains and forests of every country coming to Paris. I smell the perfume of German [[lime-trees]]; the [[billows]] of the [[North Sea]] are bounding and roaring before my door."--[[Heinrich Heine]], [[FRENCH AFFAIRS LETTERS FROM PARIS, VOLUME II, LUTETIA]] | "By the [[rail transport|railway]] space is annihilated, and only time remains. [...] In three hours and a half one can now go to Orleans, in the same time to Rouen. What will it be when the lines to Belgium and Germany shall be finished and connected with the railways of those countries? I seem to see the mountains and forests of every country coming to Paris. I smell the perfume of German [[lime-trees]]; the [[billows]] of the [[North Sea]] are bounding and roaring before my door."--[[Heinrich Heine]], [[FRENCH AFFAIRS LETTERS FROM PARIS, VOLUME II, LUTETIA]] | ||
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"By the railway space is annihilated, and only time remains. [...] In three hours and a half one can now go to Orleans, in the same time to Rouen. What will it be when the lines to Belgium and Germany shall be finished and connected with the railways of those countries? I seem to see the mountains and forests of every country coming to Paris. I smell the perfume of German lime-trees; the billows of the North Sea are bounding and roaring before my door."--Heinrich Heine, FRENCH AFFAIRS LETTERS FROM PARIS, VOLUME II, LUTETIA |
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- A line of connected cars or carriages pushed or pulled by one or more locomotives, especially a railroad train which travels on a set of tracks.
- We rode the train to Mumbai.
- A group of animals, vehicles, or people that follow one another in a line, such as a wagon train; a caravan or procession.
- Our party formed a train at the funeral parlor before departing for the burial.
- A sequence of events or ideas which are interconnected; a train of events or a train of thought.
- A series of electrical pulses.
- A set of interconnected mechanical parts like the drive train of a car.
- That which is drawn along, like the part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
- The train of her bridal gown caught on a nail.
 Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway by William Turner |
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