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...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, cancelled all its long-distance trips starting on Thursday because it operates on tracks owned by freight railroads outside the north-east....
...Amtrak, the national rail service, owns the station but the commuter lines from New Jersey and Long Island account for most of the traffic....
...Biden is a longtime rail commuter who championed the $24bn infusion that Amtrak, the nation’s largest passenger railroad, recently received to modernise its north-east corridor....
...US jazz artist Alberta Hunter sang the “Amtrak Blues”, ruing her lousy lover who’d “pawn the Holy Bible just to get his Amtrak railroad fare”....
...(FT) A train to Yucatán A 1,460km, $7.9bn railroad through the heart of Mayan territory could carry more than 8,000 passengers a day to some of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations....
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail service, now provides around 32m passenger trips per year across 21,400 miles of routes, and is impressively semi-functional for a system whose notional funding...
...Three Chinese nationals working for the China Road and Bridge Corporation were last month charged in Kenya with attempting to bribe local officials investigating an alleged ticketing scam that was said to...
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail company, operates the trains under contract to the states of Washington and Oregon, which own the Amtrak Cascades service....
...Americans, it seems, are not proud of their national rail service. Amtrak’s reach was limited, they warned....
...Amtrak – formally the National Passenger Railroad Corp – is a government-controlled company, relying partly on funding from Washington....
...Out of sight of the disgruntled passengers, however, Amtrak’s engineers are being supported by some of the world’s most advanced technologies to prevent those delays....
...But the records of Amtrak and the Post Office hardly offer enormous encouragement about the prospects for highly dynamic management....
...In May 2015 eight died when a train operated by Amtrak, the national passenger railroad, crashed outside Philadelphia. Both were a result of trains taking bends at excessive speeds....
...a day, according to Amtrak....
...the Federal Railroad Administration....
...Amtrak said there had been 238 passengers and five crew on board the train when it derailed....
...Hours later, the House of Representatives’ appropriations committee voted to cut Amtrak’s funding by 18 per cent. A successful public transport system is a national benefit....
...Robert Sumwalt, a board member at the National Transportation Safety Board, was speaking after an Amtrak train from Washington to New York veered off the tracks at 9.21pm on Tuesday in northern Philadelphia...
...Philippine National Railways....
...Freight and passenger railroads have had to grapple with issues ranging from equipment incompatibility to sensitive negotiations with Native American groups over lineside antennae....
...In December 2013, a driver suffering from sleep apnoea rounded a 30mph curve at Spuyten Duyvil, in New York City, at 82mph, derailing the train and killing four passengers....
...(FT) In defence of Amtrak Europeans swear by their rail networks. Americans, not so much. The recent fatal crash has renewed calls to reprivatise Amtrak, to make it run more like the airline industry....
...Airlines encouraged passengers to reconfirm their bookings....
...Amtrak, the US’s main long-distance rail passenger operator, faces a legal battle over the meaning of the word “flood” that could decide the fate of $379m of its claims for damage from 2012’s devastating...
...The chief executive of Amtrak, the US passenger train operator, has criticised top politicians’ “insufficiency of leadership” as the company faces having to slash services to the northeast of New York City...
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