Sentence examples for block trains from inspiring English sources

Here, Belgian workers with flares demonstrate on rail tracks and block trains: Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters Passengers wait at the Thalys high-speed train terminal at Brussels Midi/Zuid rail station.

In North America which has a much more limited passenger traffic base rail freight has grown with particular strength in inter-modal and single commodity block trains.

The freight transport market has changed, from large quantities of bulk being transported by block trains, to smaller, more frequent shipments with a higher value and a faster and more reliable delivery requirement.

The downside of the concentration on block trains and wagon groups is that there is a risk that rail is not able to compete for small and intermittent traffic flows using a universal train type product and service model.

The increasing use of block trains and wagonload/carload blocks with a minimum requirement for intermediate marshalling or re-classification offers a means of enhancing competitiveness within these constraints.

For North American carload and carload blocks these are manipulated as required in classification yards in transit although the number and gross capacity of these yards has declined dramatically in response to block trains becoming much more the preferred model.

The group erected an 18ft metal tripod over railway tracks in Everett, Washington, in order to block train shipments of crude oil and coal.

On 17 April, Paris blocked trains crossing the frontier at Ventimiglia in protest at the Italian initiative.

We propose a Mixed Integer Programme (MIP) under consideration of single-block trains.

For older children, think about toys that do not do "a lot" such as dolls, action figures, blocks, trains, instruments, art projects and books.

Subjects completed three different exercise protocols using expanders weekly, throughout the 70-day training block (total training of 3 4 days/week).