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A timetable can be produced dynamically, on request, for a particular journey on a particular day around a particular time (see journey planner, below), or in a timetable that gives an overview of all services, in a particular category, and is valid for a specified period. The latter could take the form of a book, leaflet, billboard, or a (set ...
A journey planner, trip planner, or route planner is a specialized search engine used to find an optimal means of travelling between two or more given locations, sometimes using more than one transport mode. [1] [2] Searches may be optimized on different criteria, for example fastest, shortest, fewest changes, cheapest. [3]
The point-to-point model is used widely by low-cost carriers, including Allegiant Air and Southwest Airlines in the U.S., and European carriers such as Ryanair, easyJet and Wizzair, along with some low-cost carriers in Asia like AirAsia, Lion Air and VietJet Air, for example. [1]
An example of this ranking system is Rep. Pete Sessions, who had previously served eleven terms, from 1997 to 2019; after his defeat in the 2018 midterms, he was once again elected in 2020. Instead of holding seniority with others whose terms began January 3, 2021, he was credited with ten terms, and holds seniority above all representatives ...
The route map for the May to December 2019 LNER timetable The five daily Lincoln services, which are an extension of terminating services at Newark North Gate, will go live during the currency of this timetable [2] London North Eastern Railway [3] (LNER) is a British train operating company which operates most services on the East Coast Main Line.
Crime writers were fascinated with trains and timetables, especially as a new source of alibis. Examples are Ronald Knox's The Footsteps at the Lock (1928) and novels by Freeman Wills Crofts. One mention is by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the Sherlock Holmes story The Valley of Fear: "the vocabulary of Bradshaw is nervous and terse, but limited."
Normally the timetable established both protection and authority for scheduled trains so train orders were only used for extra trains, which were not in the timetable, and scheduled trains moving contrary to their normal authorities. Timetable and train order operation supplanted earlier forms of timetable only and line-of-sight running.
The journey from Chicago to Galveston took 26 hours 15 minutes, ten hours faster the previous service on the route. [2] Service to Dallas, Texas , began on December 5, 1955. Patronage was strong; historian Keith L. Bryant Jr. credited the Texas Chief with causing the withdrawal of the Texas Special . [ 3 ]