Automatic Train Protection

excited to go back home”. Mike replies “ yes I sure am.” Mike thought his conversation with Jason ended but it did not, Jason asked “ So how much did your train ticket cost for the holidays? How far advance did you buy your ticket for? Jason replies “Well …Well I got my ticket a long time ago and it was really cheap but ..but I don’t really have a train ticket at the moment”. Mike then begins to think twice why he said that and feels that Jason might tell the conductor that he does not have a…

plans with my friends outside of my city. A few plans were made, but one particular plan had me excited enough to follow through. My friend, Olivia had introduced the idea of her visiting me. She planned on taking a train to Long Beach, and from there I’d be able to pick her up at the train station. After the plans were made I went to clarify it with my mother. My mother was extremely wary about the idea. The anticipation of a drivers license turns into a terrible trip for a friend. The…

makes many friends and enemies in his new homeland, America. Crispin is a hardworking man and one of the few gentlemen in west. The exposition of The Man from Skibbereen is young man named Crispin coming to America from Ireland. He is going on a train west to help build the railroad. When he gets off at a station to stretch his legs he accidentally gets left behind. He finds…

Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon, 226 pages Theme: In order for a person to be successful, they need be surrounded by UNDERSTANDING people. To start with, the main character, Christopher, reflects upon first meeting Siobhan eight years ago, “She showed me this picture and I knew that it meant ‘sad,’ which is what I felt when I found the dead dog” (2). Siobhan knows that Chris has a really hard time trying to converse with people because it is hard for him to…

As I walked in the forest I kept a sharp eye out for the figure who had been following me for the past week. Then I saw him; as usual, he was just a shadowy silhouette against the background. I tensed as I knelt to the ground, supposedly to tie my shoelaces. I heard soft footsteps behind me. I whipped around, ready to finally confront the person who had been following me. "Ginny!" I gasped. "What the heck are you doing here?" I asked, desperately looking for the man. "I saw you in the park, and…

There is nothing as important as the train station, and the places I’ve gone because of it when it comes to overcoming stuttering. I swung my backpack over my left shoulder and went up to the glass window. My voice clenched up, but I approached the counter anyway. “Can I have round trip tickets to ththth...thirtieth street station?” The station clerk nodded before I finished and handed me tickets to center-city Philadelphia. I left the ticket office and motioned to a station clerk. “Which…

Ernest Hemingway’s short story, ''Hills like White Elephants'', is about a couple traveling throughout Spain. The couple known as Jig, the woman and The American man, are set in a train station waiting upon the next train to Madrid. The story then transitions settings as they enter a bar where they drink beer and small talk while they wait. In this story, there is a form of communication being utilized by the couple, virtually through the use of codes, endeavoring not to speak on a certain…

Advantages of Transportation Transportation is the motion of people, animals or goods from one place to another. The modes of transport are air, rail, road, water, pipeline, cable and space. The field can be separated into infrastructure, vehicles and operations. Transport is significant because it allows trade between people, which is important for the growth of civilizations. Transport infrastructure is comprised of the fixed installations, which include roads, railways, airways,…

“Do you need a help with your backpack” the stewardess asked me in British accent. “Pardon”, I said “I didn’t hear you well”. She repeated, but I still didn’t understand what she was trying to say. I started to panic. “If I cannot understand British English, which I learned in the university for 1 year, how I will understand American English”. “How I am going to study in University in America if I don’t understand simple things the stewardess was trying to say, maybe I should get out of the…

There was some trouble on Grand Central and there are no express trains today and no trains running from Queens Borough Plaza to Times Square” the woman said to him. “Thank you ma’am” Matt said as he stepped away heading towards a door and sitting down on an empty seat. The car had started to fill up with people, and soon there were no more empty seats left for people to sit on, so instead they started to stand in the train car leaning on poles and standing by the doors. After ten minutes of…