The civil-service "through train" implied a confidence-boosting continuity, especially after the derailment of its counterpart in the legislature.
After 50 trips, Mr. Byrne said he still sees the value of the business contacts and friendships he maintains through the train ride.
But recently there has been talk of reviving the Qualified Domestic Institution Investor and "through-train" initiatives, which would allow mainland investors to invest in Hong Kong and abroad.
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The officers are common fixtures on the new rail line, which opened last year, and walk through the train cars, issuing tickets for passengers who haven't paid their fare.
The massive steel engine of the speeding train plowed through the flimsy wooden passenger car of the slower train, killing and dismembering its occupants.
At the moment making connections, for example between a Eurostar service from London to Paris and then to a TGV across France or an ICE high-speed train through Germany can be complicated.
Most of us only come into contact with servicemen and women, if at all, as they transit through airports, train or bus stations on their way to a base or a deployment.
At the outset, the destination is unknown, and through following his train of thought wherever it goes, the writer develops a fuller understanding of the subject matter but only after encountering a few surprises along the way.
Home Of: Bentley Motor CarsFamous For: Hand-stitched leather, exotic wood hewn by carpenters into glossy veneers, excellent train accessHow to get there: Fly into London Heathrow, spend the night in the city, then take a train through the countryside toward Cheshire County.
With one year to go until the European Elections and the General Election just 12 months beyond that, it will be fascinating to find out whether or not voters in our shire counties are ready to drive an express train through traditional party political loyalties.
Ian Prosser, Office of Rail Regulation safety director, said that in this case, the train companies through "inadequate management and planning" had failed to ensure the safe recovery of an engineering train.
As the train breezed through 12 stations, it was greeted by thousands of onlookers.
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Returning to the northeast corner of the city, the train passes through Uguisudani before winding back up to Nippori.
The accident temporarily halted train traffic through a vital East Coast corridor.
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Through technology, specialists train and support nonspecialists in treating people with mental illness and addiction, a lethal combination that often leads to suicide.
Borough council leaders have asked HS2 bosses to consider upgrading the existing train line through the borough rather than building a new one nearby.
The recent and upcoming changes are partly in anticipation of competition from Deutsche Bahn for train service through the Channel Tunnel, which Eurostar has monopolized until now.
In 1996, 57 people were killed and more than 500 were injured when a bomb ripped through a packed commuter train in a Colombo, Sri Lanka, suburb.
Settling into a seat as day turns to night and twilight adds a mischievous element to the ride, with a burst of hooting and hollering breaking out each time the train passes through a darkened tunnel.
Tony Curtis, the Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan - and a keen golfer to boot - had a timely poem to read as the train sped through the landscape of early autumn.
The Portbury line was reopened in December 2001, when the then Transport Minister John Speller joined 150 people on a steam train journey through the Avon Gorge from Bristol's Parson Street station to Royal Portbury Dock.
As the Prime Minister and I announced yesterday, some of our Marines will begin rotating through these parts to train and exercise with you, and to work as partners across the region for the security we all want.
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In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
Once the train is rolling through the system, it is governed by another array of computer programs.
At 79, Larry could still visualize it: leaving the train, winding through the gardens to the gate.
On the steamless alternative, the train winds instead through the countryside of Kent to Whitstable and the sea before returning home.
Her first break came a year later when a blizzard blew through Illinois, shutting down train lines and halting most street traffic.
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