A charabanc or "char-à-banc" / ˈ ʃ ær ə b æ ŋ k / (often pronounced "sharra-bang" in colloquial British English) is a type of horse-drawn vehicle or early motor coach, usually open-topped, common in Britain during the early part of the 20th century. It has "benched seats arranged in rows, looking forward, commonly used for large parties, whether as public conveyances or for …

Light reading. We’re delighted to have reintroduced High Life magazine into our lounges, with copies distributed at the entrance of the lounge and in various places within. Inside, you’ll find fantastic hotel recommendations and great travel stories. Since 2020, there’s also an online High Life platform stacked full of destination inspiration that can be accessed via Your Menu or on …

Micromobility refers to a range of small, lightweight vehicles operating at speeds typically below 25km/h (15mph) and driven by users personally. Micromobility devices include bicycles, e-bikes, electric scooters, electric skateboards, shared bicycle fleets, and electric pedal assisted bicycles.. Initial definitions set the primary condition for inclusion in the category of micromobility to be ...

Operation. In a funicular, both cars are permanently connected to the opposite ends of the same cable, known as a haul rope; this haul rope runs through a system of pulleys at the upper end of the line. If the railway track is not perfectly straight, the cable is guided along the track using sheaves – unpowered pulleys that simply allow the cable to change direction.

Exo, officially known as Réseau de transport métropolitain (RTM; English: Metropolitan Transportation Network), is a public transport system in Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both the North Shore of the Mille Îles River and the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River.It was created on June 1, 2017, taking over …

A passenger railroad car or passenger car (United States), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (United Kingdom and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers.The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, a baggage car, a dining car, railway post office and prisoner transport cars.

In scheduled transportation, a layover (also waypoint, way station, or connection) is a point where a vehicle stops, with passengers possibly changing vehicles.In public transit, this typically takes a few minutes at a trip terminal. For air travel, where layovers are longer, passengers will exit the vehicle and wait in the terminal, often to board another vehicle traveling elsewhere.

A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are drawn by six horses.. Commonly used before steam-powered rail transport was available, a stagecoach made long scheduled trips using …

Ale was a native British drink before the arrival of the Roman Empire in the 1st century, but it was with the construction of the Roman road network that the first pubs, called tabernae, began to appear.The word survives in Modern English as "tavern." After the departure of Roman authority in the 5th century and the fall of the Romano-British kingdoms, the Anglo-Saxons established …

Headway is the distance or duration between vehicles in a transit system measured in space or time. The minimum headway is the shortest such distance or time achievable by a system without a reduction in the speed of vehicles. The precise definition varies depending on the application, but it is most commonly measured as the distance from the tip (front end) of one vehicle to the …