(n.) A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this inexplicable world of Roscos (rolling stock companies), TOCs (train operating companies) and the ORR (Office of Rail Regulation), some private firms are allowed to walk away from contracts rather than face losses – as First Group did on the Great Western last week, while others, such as Stagecoach, demand £100m extra just to keep their promises.
(2) Martin Griffiths, chief executive of Stagecoach – co-owner of Richard Branson's Virgin Rail Group – and chairman of industry body the Rail Delivery Group agrees.
(3) Branson, whose company has run the London to Manchester and Glasgow route with Stagecoach for 15 years, said Virgin could not have topped FirstGroup's £5.5bn bid without "dramatic cuts to customer quality and considerable fare rises which we were unwilling to entertain".
(4) The Spanish family, who abandoned a private equity-backed takeover of National Express last month , was dismayed when National Express subsequently rejected a bid approach from Stagecoach, a rival public transport group.
(5) For a start I can see no evidence that the efficiency of private operators such as First or Stagecoach makes up for the leakage of profits.
(6) Stagecoach has pledged to invest about £140m to deliver what it calls “an improved service and a more personalised travel experience for customers”, and is scheduled to pay £3.3bn in premiums to the government.
(7) Stays at Stagecoach Trails Guest Ranch (+1-928-727-8270, stagecoachtrailsranch.com ), cost from $150pp per night, including all meals and two rides each day (except Sundays).
(8) Entering the showground perched on top of a 1912 stagecoach, the couple watched displays of mutton busting and sheep fighting and then, rather more violently, displays of bull riding by grown men, champions of the spectacle, trying to stay on the backs of bulls for as long as eight seconds, for which they are marked for artistry and skill.
(9) Stagecoach also fell out with the government over its £1.2bn South West Trains contract in 2009 but later resolved the row.
(10) Stagecoach recorded a 17.1% profit margin on its UK bus operations outside London last year, and about 20% from Tyne and Wear.
(11) The Hateful Eight , shot in 70mm and about a motley crew of 19th century bounty hunters and criminals who take refuge in a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass to shelter from a blizzard, no doubt hopes to make it a hat-trick.
(12) But the new operator, which is 90% owned by Stagecoach but prominently features Virgin’s branding, has in effect doubled some passengers’ journey costs by removing the cheapest advance fares.
(13) Starring Bruce Dern, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Madsen, Tim Roth and Kurt Russell in the story of eight 19th-century travellers trapped in a stagecoach stopover after a blizzard hits Wyoming, it is tipped to be part of the 2016 Oscars conversation.
(14) Stagecoach's finance director, Ross Paterson, last week said that extensions on Southwest, East Midland and Virgin Rail – 49%-owned by Stagecoach – meant his company had "nine years of cash flows and earnings guaranteed".
(15) It’s not just the landscape – those red cliffs, mesas rearing up against a crisp and empty sky, that inspired Hollywood producers of the 1930s and 40s to shoot westerns such as Broken Arrow and Stagecoach in the area.
(16) "Stagecoach believes it would have contributed a number of important aspects to the enlarged business, including a robust capital structure and a proven management team led by an experienced and respected chief executive."
(17) National Express was plunged into deep uncertainty a fortnight ago when a £765m rescue takeover proposal from a consortium that included the Cosmen family, Stagecoach and private equity house CVC fell apart.
(18) The Stagecoach chief executive, Brian Souter, has accused the department of being "either dysfunctional or deceitful" in its handling of a contractual dispute over its South West Trains franchise.
(19) Shortly afterwards, the group received a bid approach from rival transport group Stagecoach, but merger talks were broken off by National Express, which said that it preferred to reduce borrowings via a rights issue.
(20) Virgin Trains, which is 49% owned by the transport group Stagecoach, is believed to be considering challenging the decision in the courts.
Wagon
Definition:
(n.) A wheeled carriage; a vehicle on four wheels, and usually drawn by horses; especially, one used for carrying freight or merchandise.
(n.) A freight car on a railway.
(n.) A chariot
(n.) The Dipper, or Charles's Wain.
(v. t.) To transport in a wagon or wagons; as, goods are wagoned from city to city.
(v. i.) To wagon goods as a business; as, the man wagons between Philadelphia and its suburbs.
Example Sentences:
(1) You wrote I Will Always Love You for Porter Wagoner, even though he had sued you.
(2) The danger is, in the face of western criticism and in the strong belief they have done more than most of their neighbours to be progressive, that they will now circle the wagons.
(3) Samples of fresh grass, wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in a stack silo and cut with either a cylinder-type forage harvester (11.3 mm of length cut) or a self-loading wagon (42.4 mm of length cut), wilted grass prior to and after ensiling in large round bales, and grass hay were obtained from the same field and used for determination of DM and CP degradability.
(4) Tractors accounted for one half of these machinery-related deaths, followed by farm wagons, combines, and forklifts.
(5) Individuals have decided to abandon their own families and jump on the Mandela wagon.
(6) Rail privatisation also saw the end of much domestic locomotive, wagon and carriage building – more workers on the scrapheap, more imports to further transform the balance of payments into a horror story.
(7) Although Knoller and the other young people in the wagon took it in turns to sit and stand, their efforts proved insufficient.
(8) "The meaning of the elections is: Italy can play a role; Italy is not the last wheel of the wagon; Italy is not the bottom of the class.
(9) The train now trundles through silent stations, its wagons free of the crowds of men, women and children who once clung to roofs and ladders.
(10) "The trains had 10 wagons and 100 people squeezed into each one," he says.
(11) If the wagons do start rolling in, I think there will be a massive upsurge,” he says.
(12) Nato thought better of hitching its wagon to the star of the hot-headed Georgian president.
(13) Gulnara Suleymanova and her family of five live in a wagon behind Baku’s prestigious new sports stadium, built especially for next month’s European Games.
(14) The wounded were being loaded into wagons; Wilfred managed to scramble up.
(15) If you then get the right of the party behaving in that way, that’s when you get real trouble and that’s the risk we’ve got at the moment: that there are some in the party all circling the wagon against Jeremy’s campaign.
(16) Secret Trump voters reverse their support: 'He seems to be insane' Read more As the Washington pundits and pollsters wrote them off, there was a sense of circling the wagons.
(17) She had become Snowflake’s unofficial welcome wagon, local therapist and advocate.
(18) "When resources are tight and all our inclinations are to pull the corporate wagons into a circle and fight to defend our own vested interests, that is exactly the time when we need to be at our boldest and most imaginative," he said.
(19) He was bundled into a wooden box which Roland had built specially for the job and then carried in a hand wagon to his Audi 8 car.
(20) 5.48pm BST Summary of today's events: - 196 bodies being stored in refrigerated railway wagons in Torez.