Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app.

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by, on track to your

there.

the care in the world as you simply lean back.

And before you know it, you're there.

This is how travels should feel,

and on our trains it does.

Avanti West Coast feel good travel. The sound of cannon fire rang out in the deep like a thunder from the heavens is how one witness described it.

piercing crash, the air was thick with billowing smoke.

The screams of innocence awoke from their slumber,

drowned out by the death knell of the guns.

The sky burnt red by the rising sun and streaked with fireballs launched from

cataports or portents of doom.

It was the morning of the 29th of May, 1453.

The city of Constantinople lay under siege.

It marked the culmination of an age-long struggle

between two totemic powers for control

of the Eastern Mediterranean,

a titanic clash between the forces of Christianity and Islam.

At first, Christian Byzantine was ascendant,

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