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With the premiere of ‘The Gilded Age’ season 3, take the opportunity to brush up on the architectural style that became ...
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Researchers excavating a construction site beneath a busy Paris train station just unearthed a 2,000-year-old cemetery filled ...
Those southern English trains run on 750 V DC while their overhead wire equivalents use 25 kV AC at 50Hz, but while Northern France also ... is done in a station when the train isn’t moving ...
Highest Train Station in the World: Tanggula Railway Station is the highest train station in the world, at an elevation of 5,068 metres (16,627 feet) above sea level. It is located in the Tanggula ...
If you’ve ever planned a long-distance train journey, then chances are you’ve come across Mark Smith. You may not recognise the name: he’s better known as the Man in Seat 61, the owner ...
The Thirunallar Railway Station, designed in an Indo-French architectural style, is nearing completion, promising to be a significant landmark in the region. The station not only reflects the ...
A man in France has been fined $200 for using the speakerphone on his cell while in a train station. The man, who has only been identified as “David,” told an interviewer from CNN affiliate ...
A traveller checks his mobile phone on a platform at the Gare de Lyon railway station in Paris. Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP After a French train passenger was fined €150 for using his phone on ...
XAVIER GALIANA / AFP French railway police on Monday, February 3, shot and wounded two people, including a man wielding a fake gun who was spray-painting a swastika at a busy Paris station ...
SNCF offers significant land for ground-based PV in France, with more than 113,800 hectares available for solar. To harness the PV potential of non-operational railway lines, SNCF’s subsidiary ...