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...A second major UK train operating company has been forced to cut its services because of staff shortages, a move that will intensify pressure on the railway industry and disruption faced by passengers....
...“We have to strike the right balance as any railway can only be engineered for a specific temperature range,” it added....
...Just before that, the bridge over Bow Creek offers a panorama of the area’s knot of creeks and railway lines....
...Lancaster House “I have come from my House to your Palace,” exclaimed Queen Victoria as the Duchess of Sutherland welcomed her to what was then Stafford House....
...Gresgarth Hall near Lancaster belongs to the celebrated garden-designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd and her husband Mark....
...But Fleetwood itself is linked electorally with the university city of Lancaster across the Wyre Estuary....
...Mr Johnson signalled his intention soon after becoming prime minister with a promise to build HS3 — a high-speed railway connecting Leeds and Manchester....
...When I cycled to Finsbury Park on Monday morning a railway bridge I pedal past on most days but scarcely notice was adorned with now familiar accoutrements — bunches of flowers, notes of condolence, police...
...Darlington, another railway town, has also been leaning Leave, albeit only slightly....
...Much of the area was covered by a handful of estates, including the Crown and the Duchy of Lancaster. Fraser knew that once those estates had signed up, smaller landholders would follow....
...Mr Mackinlay studied physics at Lancaster University and took a PhD at Oxford university....
...In the mainly rural Lancaster postcodes delivery director Fielding says the number of Amazon parcels handled is up; 20 miles down the M6 motorway in urban Preston, it has dropped sharply....
...I never realised there were railway halts all alone in these valleys!...
...These institutions, he says, are nationalised, like Britain’s railway system used to be. So there’s no incentive for them to excel....
...London is now going through a period of change that might rival the mid 19th-century when railways spawned the sprawling city of today....
...Klas Nilsson will become chief and chairman of Northacre, which is developing the Lancasters residential scheme next to Hyde Park in partnership with Minerva....
...“Yet the coalition is hiking rail fares by such an extent that people will be priced off the railways and back on to the roads, making congestion even worse.”...
...Marshall Lancaster, already an endearing presence from BBC TV’s Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes, ably succeeds Bernard Cribbins, his celluloid predecessor in the role of railway porter Bert Perks....
...Today, the new railway station means Yuen Long residents can reach Central within 45 minutes....
...On the other, the plans involve constructing a railway line that will connect the port of Veracruz with both the Kansas City railway company and the Ferrosur company, rather than giving exclusivity to one...
...Research from the management school at Lancaster University reveals that in the outlets where McDonald’s employs at least one person aged 60 or above, customer service and cleanliness both improve appreciably...
...They joined Glasgow Central, Lancaster, Birmingham Moor Street, rebuilt like a film set, tarty Sheffield, Church Stretton in Shropshire, with its sign indicating latitude and longitude, classical Huddersfield...
...The first-class return fare for the 210-mile trip from London to Lancaster cost me £68 in June. (Such cheap fares require advance booking in both countries.)...
...I am not generally one of those who are hypercritical of Britain’s railways....
...a global lead, still resonates; on Friday, Tony Blair, the prime minister and MP for Sedgefield, opened the region’s first national museum, at Shildon, County Durham, where the world’s first passenger railway...
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