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Virgin Rail, the company now operating the main routes from London to Manchester and London to Birmingham, has become the butt of everybody from callers to radio shows to government ministers, delayed on Virgin trains .But most of these complaints and mistakes are the teething pains of a huge structural economic change.
Others include annoyance that a train was delayed on the return journey of a trip, a child not understanding a joke in a play, the school rulers not being transparent, a child being too tired after school (having played in a football tournament all weekend), there being too many girls in my class (16 girls and 14 boys) and my not being aware that one girl got her period on a school day.
The M.T.A. reminds you that being on a delayed train is no excuse for giving people insincere relationship advice that could lead them to make a decision they'll regret for the rest of their lives.
A report in the Metropolitan Diary column on Monday about a recent delay on a Metropolitan Transportation Authority train misidentified the borough where a tree had fallen across the tracks in high winds.
(This second train was delayed on the Aylesbury and Buckingham Railway, arriving late to the burial. ) The Dukedom was inherited only in the male line.
Gone are the days when, sitting on a train delayed in the station, I could imagine exactly where in the New York Public Library we would first kiss — in the stacks between Mailer and Malamud or Foer and Franzen?
Today, if you are quiet on a delayed New Jersey Transit train waiting to get into the existing tunnel, and you listen to the ambient conversation noise among the passengers, you will hear "Christie!" muttered over and over.
Shannon Thomas is a New York City based journalist and due to a signal malfunction at 149th St ./ Grand Concourse, she is most likely stuck on a delayed 5 train.
As a disembodied voice spoke of delays on the Central Line, a train arrived but proved too crowded to board.
Rail failures and flooding are continuing to cause major delays on national train routes on one of the busiest days of Christmas travel.
The weather later led to severe delays on some train lines in and around London, sparking concern on the part of some commuters that they would struggle to get home in time to vote.
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The phrase "delayed on a train" functions as a prepositional phrase describing a state of being, specifically the experience of being held up or experiencing a delay while traveling via train. It modifies an implied subject (e.g., "I am delayed on a train"). Ludwig AI confirms this usage is grammatically correct.
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