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Aer Lingus Regional

Aer Lingus Regional is an Aer Lingus brand used for commuter and regional flights operated by Irish airline Aer Arann on behalf of Aer Lingus.

Aero Cuahonte

Aero Cuahonte was a commuter airline based in Uruapan, Mexico, operating scheduled and chartered passenger flights out of Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport in Guadalajara.

Alexander Dennis Enviro500

It was first loaned to Community Transit between 2007 and 2009 which put it into service on 1 August 2007, the bus was used on commuter routes between Seattle and various points in Snohomish County during its first year in operation.

André Walker

Robert Bobbin, a fellow passenger on a commuter train from Waterloo station, recorded the conversation and placed it on the YouTube along with a picture he took of Walker in his seat.

Automated fare collection system

Illinois Central Railroad (IC) in 1965 for its busy Chicago commuter service (today’s Metra Electric.) Financed entirely from private funds, AFC was expected to reduce operating costs by

British Rail Class 127

The units were almost exclusively used on London St. Pancras to Bedford commuter services, which earned the class the nickname "Bed-Pan" units.

British Rail railbuses

Following export around 1981 it was used on an experimental extension of MBTA (Boston) commuter service to Concord, New Hampshire.

Cockburn Central railway station

Cockburn Central is on the Mandurah Line of the Transperth Trains network, a hybrid metro-commuter rail system with five lines in metropolitan Perth.

Coonabarabran Airport

From 1991 to 2001 Yanda Airlines based an aircraft and pilots at the airport to provide 12 weekly commuter flights to Sydney via Gunnedah.

County Cavan

This increase is due to the continued population growth of N3/M3 proximity commuter towns such as Virginia, Ballyjamesduff, Bailieborough and Mullagh.

Cowbit railway station

E35256, were repainted on one side in the colours of a Netherlands Railways commuter train to carry out a re-enactment of the 1975 Dutch train hostage crisis.

Dayton, Newark

The stop was built in 2001 to connect NJT's commuter lines and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor services with the AirTrain at Newark Airport.

DB Class V 200

Following the electrification of many main lines the V 200 was used increasingly for commuter trains and freight trains, but the Hamburg-Westerland, Hamburg-Lübeck-Copenhagen and Munich-Lindau lines still saw the V 200 hauling express trains.

E331

E331 series, an electric multiple unit (EMU) used for commuter services

Eagle P3

On 21 October 2011, Wabtec signed a $63 million contract with Denver Transit Partners to construct the positive train control system for the Eagle P3 commuter rail lines.

Goodyear Aerospace

Also due to the lack of business during the depression, the company used its advanced aeronautical knowledge to design and build the high speed Comet commuter trains for the route between Boston and Providence.

Henry Benson, Baron Benson

In 1963 Benson submitted his report, which recommended closing all railways in Northern Ireland except the Belfast commuter lines to Bangor, County Down and Larne and the main line between Belfast and the Republic of Ireland, and the reduction of the main line between Portadown and the Republic to single track.

JR Kyoto Line

In addition to the three types of commuter trains, long-distance limited express trains connecting the Kyoto-Osaka region with Kansai International Airport (Haruka services), Hokuriku region (Thunderbird and Raichō services) and other areas also frequently operate on the line.

Keolis

to bid on a commuter rail contract for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston, Massachusetts.

Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad

Four open-window commuter coaches built in 1930 by the Pullman Company in Chicago, and by the Harlan and Hollingsworth division of Bethlehem Shipbuilding for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W).

Linda Parks

Parks worked as a transportation planner for private, public and non-profit companies including, Transportation Management Services, Commuter Transportation Service, and the City of Ventura with her transportation planning work included in the 1984 Summer Olympics and the Getty Museum.

Lloyd District, Portland, Oregon

TriMet buses and MAX trains provide frequent service in the district, as well as a commuter express bus route form Vancouver via C-Tran.

Love on Wheels

A daily commuter on a Green Line bus from the suburbs to Central London Fred Hopkins romantically pursues a fellow passenger Jane with the help of Briggs the bus conductor.

Massachusetts Route 62

In Concord, Route 62 joins that town's Main Street, passing the West Concord Depot, a commuter rail stop along the Fitchburg Line.

Melling, New Zealand

The Melling Railway Station is the terminus of the Melling Line which provides a suburban commuter service to Wellington.

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty

Bidos: responsible for the production of large components (bogies, main fittings, integral axles) for large commercial, business, commuter aircraft and helicopter gears.

Michael DiGiorgio

He worked on BART with Kaiser Sand & Gravel, spent time as a stockbroker, worked for the family business at DiGiorgio Corp., managed Sun Aire commuter airliner out of Palm Springs, California, worked for aircraft speculators out of London, UK before finally moving to Novato in 1989 and purchasing a video store.

Mokena, Illinois

Two commuter rail stations are located within Mokena; Hickory Creek and Front Street, providing service to downtown Chicago's LaSalle Street Station, connecting with components of the Chicago Transit Authority.

Newcourt railway station, Exeter

The station could form part of a Metro-style rail network of short stops to increase connectivity to and from commuter towns such as Exmouth and Cullompton, with new stations at Marsh Barton, Monkerton and Cranbrook.

NSB Class 72

Four were being used on the Jæren Commuter Rail, while one was being used on the line between Moss and Spikkestad

Oakland Ferry Terminal

For these reasons a service was established between a new Alameda Ferry Terminal and Oakland with continuing commuter service to the San Francisco Ferry Building and also Fisherman's Wharf at Pier 41.

Ogbourne Maizey

The hamlet on the banks of the River Og is dominated by commuter housing and race horse stables on the narrow road that leads over the downs to Rockley.

Orange Express

the Orange Blossom Express, a proposed commuter rail system in the US state of Florida

People Express Airlines

People Express also bought midwest commuter carrier Britt Airways and Provincetown-Boston Airlines (PBA), a regional airline serving New England and Florida.

Richard B. Ogilvie

The Ogilvie Transportation Center, from which Chicago-area Metra commuter passenger trains leave for destinations on the former Chicago and North Western, now the Union Pacific, is named in his honor.

Robert A. Clifford

Rachel Barton Pine, an internationally acclaimed violinist, was dragged almost 300 feet along the tracks of a commuter rail train when the doors of the train closed on her bags, pinning her to the doors.

Saltaire railway station

It is a busy commuter station both for passengers travelling to Leeds and Bradford and for staff in companies based in Salt's Mill, as well as serving tourists visiting the UNESCO World Heritage site at Saltaire.

Scone Airport

Between 1988 and 2001, Yanda Airlines based an aircraft and pilots at Scone to operate commuter flights to Sydney via Singleton and Maitland.

Shute Harbour

It is second only to Sydney’s Circular Quay as the busiest commuter port in Australia and it has the largest seaplane airbase in the Southern hemisphere.

Swift Aire Lines

Swift Aire Lines was a U.S. commuter air carrier that was based in San Luis Obispo, California.

A book on the history of Swift Aire Lines was written in 1979 by an authority of commuter airlines, Dr. Imre E. Quastler of San Diego State University.

Tattenham Corner Line

The line is primarily a commuter route, but the station at Tattenham Corner was built to serve the Epsom Downs Racecourse, with large numbers of extra trains on Derby day.

Tolmachevo Airport

The airport is located approximately 1 km away from the Tolmachevo railway station at the Trans-Siberian Railway - a stop for only Elektrichka local commuter trains but not for any long-distance trains.

Transportation in Suzhou

Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway is a high-speed railway which is major serves commuter between cities in Jiangsu and Shanghai, with run at high speed, on time, and short headway in Suzhou New Area Railway Station, Suzhou Railway Station, Suzhou Industrial Park Railway Station.

Turin–Ceres railway

The Ferrovia Torino-Ceres (also known as Torino-Valli di Lanzo) is a commuter railroad in the province of Turin (northern Italy) which is currently managed by the Gruppo Torinese Trasporti.

Ufton Nervet rail crash

2005 Glendale train crash — a crash in January 2005 on the Los Angeles commuter rail system in similar circumstances.

Union Pacific North Line

Club membership was once limited to wealthy male commuters from affluent North Shore towns such as Lake Forest, Lake Bluff and Highland Park, but is now open to any commuter on the line for a $900 annual membership fee.

Union Station Bus Terminal

The Union Station Bus Terminal is part of GO Transit's facilities at Union Station in downtown Toronto, which is the hub for GO Transit's commuter rail service.


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