Daglish railway station is a commuter railway station on the boundary of
Daglish and Subiaco, suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. Opened on 14
July 1924, the station was named after Henry Daglish, who was a mayor of
Subiaco, a member for the electoral district of Subiaco, and a premier
of Western Australia in the 1900s. The station consists of an island
platform accessed by a pedestrian underpass. Daglish station is on the
Fremantle line, and starting on 10 October 2022, the Airport line, which
are both part of the Transperth network. Fremantle line services run
every 10 minutes during peak hour and every 15 minutes outside peak hour
and on weekends and public holidays. Upon the Airport line's opening,
Fremantle line and Airport line services will run every 12 minutes
during peak hour, for a combined frequency of a train every 6 minutes.
The journey to Perth station is 4.9 kilometres (3.0 mi) long and takes
7 minutes.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daglish_railway_station>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1780:
The deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record began to impact the
Caribbean, killing at least 20,000 people across the Antilles over the
subsequent days.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hurricane_of_1780>
1942:
World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the
Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, reversing
the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actions_along_the_Matanikau>
1962:
Nick Holonyak, an engineer for General Electric, gave the first
public demonstration of a light-emitting diode.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Holonyak>
2012:
Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai was severely injured by a
Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala_Yousafzai>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
nine-day wonder:
(idiomatic) Something that generates interest for a limited time and is
then abandoned.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nine-day_wonder>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
One must manifest discipline of spirit; without it one cannot
become free. To the slave discipline of spirit will be a prison; to the
liberated one it will be a wondrous healing garden. So long as the
discipline of spirit is as fetters the doors are closed, for in fetters
one cannot ascend the steps. One may understand the discipline of
spirit as wings. Whosoever will comprehend the discipline of spirit as
illumination of the future worlds is already prepared.
--Nicholas Roerich
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