Airport Central railway station is an underground Transperth commuter
rail station at terminals one and two of Perth Airport in Western
Australia. The station is located on the Airport line and is one of
three stations that were built as part of the Forrestfield–Airport
Link project, which consists of 8 kilometres (5 mi) of twin bored
tunnels and three stations. Construction began in May 2017 following
preparatory work. By January 2018, excavation was complete, and in
May 2018 the two tunnel boring machines reached the station after
tunnelling from High Wycombe. The machines left the station tunnelling
north-west in July, and construction of the rest of the station started.
A 280-metre (920 ft) elevated walkway was built linking the station to
the airport's terminal one. Originally planned to open in 2020, the line
and station officially opened on 9 October 2022. The journey to Perth
station takes eighteen minutes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_Central_railway_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1740:
European soldiers and Javanese collaborators massacred Chinese
Indonesians in the port city of Batavia, modern-day Jakarta.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1740_Batavia_massacre>
1888:
The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., at the time the
world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument>
1952:
A footman shot and killed two colleagues and wounded the lady
of the house at Knowsley Hall, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowsley_Hall_shootings>
1986:
The Phantom of the Opera, a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and
currently the longest-running Broadway show in history, opened in
London's West End.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_%281986_musical%29>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
pith:
1. (botany)
2. The soft, spongy substance inside plant parts; specifically, the
parenchyma in the centre of the roots and stems of many plants and
trees.
3. The albedo (“whitish inner portion of the rind”) of a citrus fruit.
4. (by extension)
5. Senses relating to humans and animals.
6. The soft tissue inside a human or animal body or one of their organs;
specifically, the spongy interior substance of a horn or the shaft of a
feather.
7. Chiefly of animals: the soft tissue inside a spinal cord; the spinal
marrow; also, the spinal cord itself.
8. (obsolete) Synonym of diploe (“the thin layer of soft, spongy, or
cancellate tissue between the bone plates which constitute the skull”)
9. (obsolete, rare) The soft tissue of the brain.
10. (Ireland, Southern England, West Country) The soft inner portion of
a loaf of bread.
11. (figurative)
12. The central or innermost part of something; the core, the heart.
13. The essential or vital part of something; the essence. Synonyms:
crux, gist, heart, heart and soul, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty,
nub, quintessence, soul, spirit, substance; see also Thesaurus:gist
14. Physical power or strength; force, might.
15. A quality of courage and endurance; backbone, mettle, spine.
16. The energy, force, or power of speech or writing; specifically, such
force or power due to conciseness; punch, punchiness.
17. Chiefly in of (great) pith and moment: gravity, importance,
substance, weight.
18. To render insensate or kill (an animal, especially cattle or a
laboratory animal) by cutting, piercing, or otherwise destroying the
spinal cord.
19. To extract the pith from (something or (figurative) someone). [...]
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pith>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
To everything in this world there comes an end; there even comes
an end to the torments suffered in those intermediate states of
transition when the last secret tear of one's soul is bitterly
swallowed, and the crisis passes, resolving itself into some new sort of
phase, which even as it comes into existence is fated in turn to pass
away, to disappear in the eternal changing of the times and seasons.
--Nikolai Bukharin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nikolai_Bukharin>