I'd chosen to travel by rail not for any anoraky reasons, but because I have always found a train, particularly a slow train, a good way of taking the pulse of a place.

我选择坐火车旅行因为我发现坐火车，尤其是慢车是观察一个地方很好的方式。

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He continues his low-carbon odyssey with a slow train around vast Lake Baikal, one of the many unexpected delights of Siberia.

他乘坐慢车环绕浩淼的贝加尔湖，继续他的低碳旅程，这是西伯利亚所带来的众多惊喜之一。

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What a slow train this is!

这列火车开得多慢呀！

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It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

People travelling from Camberley to London now have to take the slow train or drive five miles to Farnborough to get a train which takes 43 minutes.

BBC: South West rolling stock

Just 20 seconds elapsed between the time the first train came to rest and the moment it was struck by the westbound train, whose engineer had deployed emergency brakes to slow the train.

WSJ: Probe of Metro-North Derailment in Connecticut Focuses on Rail

This system, Positive Train Control (PTC), is intended to stop or slow a train automatically if a driver goes too fast or passes a red signal.

ECONOMIST: American railways