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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....
...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”....
...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...
...Amtrak, the national passenger rail company, operates the trains under contract to the states of Washington and Oregon, which own the Amtrak Cascades service....
...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....
...Another 1.4m b/d were in the process of starting up and 2.3m b/d operating at below maximum output....
...Cissy Houston had a respectable R&B hit with her account of the song, giving it a female voice and, by adding harmonica, a country-ish feel....
...In December 2013 a train derailed in the Bronx, New York, killing four. In May 2015 eight died when a train operated by Amtrak, the national passenger railroad, crashed outside Philadelphia....
...Spencer Dale, BP’s chief economist, has said electric cars alone are unlikely to have a “game-changing” impact, with 100m on the road by 2035 cutting just 1.2m b/d from global consumption....
...running underneath the station, which serves 600,000 passengers a day, according to Amtrak....
...Amtrak, the long-distance US passenger rail operator, was on Sunday installing extra speed controls at the site of last week’s fatal train crash in Philadelphia, as details emerged about why a better safety...
...Amtrak said there had been 238 passengers and five crew on board the train when it derailed....
...In December 2013, a train operated by Metro-North, a busy commuter railroad, derailed at 82mph on a bend with a 30mph speed limit at Spuyten Duyvil in New York City, killing four passengers....
...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....
...Ian Naish, a former director of rail safety at Canada’s National Transportation Safety Board, says the industry always made it clear the timetable was “very, very tight”....
...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....
...“By the standards of today’s airline industry Amtrak is a hot mess of excessively consumer-friendly practices, and is forgoing millions, maybe billions, in fees and fines that airlines collect”....
...Shortly after sanctions were lifted, Iran’s national oil company moved to play catch-up, ordering an increase in production of about 500,000 b/d....
...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...
...In 1971 regulators allowed operators to end most of their passenger services and pass the remainder to Amtrak, which eventually became part of the federal government....
...Amtrak, the long-distance passenger rail service, cancelled many of its services in the northeast – the area where it carries most passengers....
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