Sentence examples for first class rail from inspiring English sources

Mr Walker displayed an expensive taste for first class rail travel and the bill racked up.

The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) says it is leading by example, cutting more than £400,000 from its spending on refreshments by stopping providing free food and drink at meetings, and reducing first class rail travel from £200,000 to £17,500 a year.

The most recent example of this came when Daniel Kawczynski – Tory MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham, and a man who claimed 72 first class rail tickets on expenses in one year – told a one-legged beggar to get a job.

Four nights' B&B at the Hotel Le Grimaldi with Planet Rail (01347 811810; planetrail.co.uk) costs from £495pp, including first-class rail travel from London.

"You can smell the liberty!" The next morning, I bought a one-week first-class rail pass at the main train station in Tunis.

The prize includes first-class rail travel, breakfast both mornings and pre-dinner cocktails plus a three-course dinner for four people on one of the nights.

The battle commences with John squaring up to a crusty old buffer in a first-class rail compartment, and continues in the bars, the parties, the TV studios.

NHS chiefs have been banned from spending taxpayers' money on first-class rail fares and ordered to take the bus or tube instead of hopping in a cab.

Both can offer a wide variety of interesting itineraries – from climbing Machu Picchu or cruising the Norwegian fjords, to a first-class rail journey through the Black Forest.

The document states that the band would receive royalties of 2 per cent from sales and 25 German marks (roughly £8) each per day, including the cost of a first-class rail ticket.

Mohandas Gandhi, whose political awakening began when he was expelled from a first-class rail compartment in South Africa because of his skin color, condemned railways as carriers of disease and disrupters of self-sufficient rural economies.