But each morning they made their journey into the city in more-or-less swift trains, and then they journeyed home many, many hours later.
In "Wish You Were Here," Swift trains this searching, compassionate gaze on a middle-aged couple, Jack and Ellie, who run a caravan park on the Isle of Wight.
But each morning they made their journey in more-or-less swift trains down the ancient trail known as the Metro-North to The Grand Central Terminal, and then they journeyed back home many, many hours later.
But each morning they made their journey in more-or-less swift trains down the three ancient trails known as the Metro-North -- the trail of Harlem, the trail of Hudson and the trail of New Haven -- to the Grand Central Terminal, and then they journeyed home many, many hours later.
However, he didn't have the patience or rigour to master the necessary study, so in 1878 – a few months after his 25th birthday – he left for Brussels, in order to enrol in a swifter training school for evangelists.
But, despite the young anarchists' confidently idealistic notion of their autonomy, the isolation of their garden is illusory: when Nathalie heads out to the countryside for a visit, she gets there by means of a swift modern train that arrives at a well-tended little station.
Later that summer I reported for swift boat training in Coronado, Calif.
A news search for the words "hero saves" will routinely turn up stories of bystanders braving oncoming trains, swift currents and raging fires to save strangers from harm.
The penny post (with its stamps and its uniform rates) arrived in the United Kingdom in 1840, and in the decade that followed Anthony Trollope, a postal inspector, was travelling all over Ireland on the swift new express trains and persistent locals, to make sure that every letter, wherever bound, was actually being delivered the next day.
