This money will help make the railway a viable transport link in the Wear Valley. It will help rebuild the infrastructure and part fund newly created jobs on the system.
- John HolmesOver my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.
- Dinah SheridanThe corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
- Dinah SheridanDad worked on a railway as a steward on the dinning cars. He`d been a soldier, he`d been a sailor, and he was a chef in his later years.
- Ronald BiggsIn the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government.
- John MoodyThe Giraffe took the horse`s head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train.
- Alexander TherouxI lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.
- Andres MartinezThey will have powers. They will be sworn in as auxiliary German police officers but their powers will be limited to the railway system and the airports.
- Barbara Hartman