Britain's best-known entrepreneur, Richard Branson, an inveterate risk-taker, has a 15-year franchise for the west coast main-line service between London, Manchester and Glasgow, which runs on some of the busiest and most dilapidated track in Britain.
In 1946, he met Speedway owner Tony Hulman, who had just bought and renovated the dilapidated track that had been idle during World War II.
In 1946 he met the speedway's owner, Tony Hulman, who had just bought and renovated the dilapidated track, which was idle during World War II.
Mr. LeFrak, 60, said the family is making good on a promise by his father and Melvin Simon, the shopping center developer, to build a community where dilapidated piers, warehouses and railroad tracks stood.
His own documentary method, juxtaposing the voices of survivors with images of train tracks, quiet forests and dilapidated, silent camp buildings, brings the experience as close to the present as possible -- which means that it also takes account of the unbridgeable chasm between the present and the past.
The BBC's Wanyama Chebusiri in Nairobi says the new service will be much faster then the existing dilapidated trains and will run on a separate track.
As aerial tracking shots of parking lots and dilapidated houses and playgrounds rolled past, he nodded along to the soundtrack, a trap song by Jay Critch called "Did It Again".
Over the course of one frigid night in Kyra's underheated flat in a dilapidated housing project, Tom's teenaged son Edward tracks Kyra down and pleads with her to return home to help bring his father out of a depression.
We walked on down the track, the night becoming more complete as dilapidated houses towered over us ominously.
Raised on welfare by a great-aunt, tracked in the lower rung in the dilapidated public school system in Camden, N.J., I was bound for a marginal economic existence — if I managed to survive Vietnam.
Mercy, who thinks she is seven – she has no birth certificate – lives in a dilapidated mud and thatch house, 20 minutes' walk from the nearest track.
