The driver of D301, Pan Yiheng, was a thirty-eight-year-old railway man with a broad nose and wide-set eyes.

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Alex MacDonald is a softly spoken railway man, and a true Highland gentleman.

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The Isle of Man Steam Railway and Manx Electric Railway will also operate at peak times for schools and commuters.

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" When the helpless old man approached a railway official, he was told, "There is nothing we can do.

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The railway is a Soviet triumph of man over nature, built in an inhospitable land of extreme winter cold and mosquito-cloud filled summers.

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The sculpture was unveiled by the Prince of Wales in July 1999 to honour the man who brought the Great Western Railway to Pembrokeshire.

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During a similar incident at Brockenhurst railway station, on 5 December, a man was forced into his Porsche 911 Carrera at gunpoint and made to drive to the town's HSBC bank where he was made to withdraw a large quantity of money.

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It was the Victorian railway industry that was most keen on the laws requiring a man to walk with a red flag in front of newfangled motor cars.

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The earliest case, from 1970, involves the body of a man, thought to be between 50 and 60, who was found near a railway line in Slough.

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The new Pope, the son of an Italian railway worker, said how he was inspired by the 13th Century Italian saint who was a man of both poverty and peace.

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