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Dawning of rail's new golden age? (BBC News)

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Old 1st February 2009, 10:11
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Dawning of rail's new golden age? (BBC News)

BBC News examines the prospects of a first major railway construction project since Victorian times.

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Old 1st February 2009, 20:07
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There is an urgent need to get on with it, not just talk about it and the pigs are at the end of the runway, fueled and ready to go!!
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first major railway construction project since Victorian times.
So the Channel Tunnel Rail Link was not a major railway construction project then ?
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So the Channel Tunnel Rail Link was not a major railway construction project then ?
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link definitely is a major railway construction project.
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And there has been quite a bit of the London underground built since then as well
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