First's four regional franchises now account for about a quarter of rail travel in Britain.
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Perhaps it is to be expected in the country that invented high-altitude rail travel.
It just takes you back to the romance of rail travel with nightly gourmet meals that you dress up for.
In the 20th century rail travel languished as Americans fell in love with cars and interstate highways.
Snowfall on Friday and Saturday caused widespread disruption to roads and rail travel in parts of north Wales.
Local commuter networks, yes, but I must admit to being very unconvinced by long distance passenger rail travel.
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And can rail travel in this country ever recover from that tarnished image that it seems to have at the moment?
There has been a 67% growth in rail travel in Britain since 1995 including a tripling of business use.
By the 1970s, rail travel was in deep decline, and Amtrak was founded in an attempt to arrest its fall.
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The snowfall caused disruption to roads and rail travel on Saturday, having moved southwards overnight into Powys and the Gwent Valleys.
Lulled by the silence of the carriage and the prospect of alpine rail travel, I fall into a deep, childlike sleep.
If a train trip takes more than three or four hours, five at most, rail travel will always be the loser.
Faulty components on power lines are being blamed for bringing chaos to rail travel through Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire over the last fortnight.
Rail travel is usually cleaner, greener and faster than travel by car.
By the mid-1930s the overnight sleeper train eased the prospect of a long journey and established a classic form of rail travel.
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George Muir, director general of the Association of Train Operating Companies, said it was wrong to say rail travel was getting more dangerous.
Flooding is affecting road and rail travel in several areas of Wales as emergency services warn motorists and residents to heed weather warnings.
Julia Dean, from the WEP, said they were "disappointed" as rail travel was growing in popularity and there was already over-capacity on some lines.
The efficiency of trans-European rail travel will be further boosted following the formation of Railteam, an alliance of high-speed rail operators across western Europe.
Five days of free rail travel has been offered to season ticket holders by London Midland as compensation for delays and cancellations last year.
He said that suggestions that the complex structure of the railways, in the wake of privatisation had made rail travel less safe, should be rejected.
Bill Richardson, one of America's most experienced politicians, does believe there is a head of steam growing up once again behind the idea of expanding rail travel in America.
All of this matters because according to Rail Europe, travelers from North America consider Italy their second most highly ranked dream destination, and their third most used rail travel destination.
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Meanwhile, the official Twitter feed for the two airports in Paris warns that rail travel in the French capital is seriously disrupted Tuesday, making access to the airport difficult.
"This country is running out of rail capacity and rail travel, and the population is continuing to grow, " British Chamber of Commerce director-general David Frost told the Transport Committee on 29 June 2011.
Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA transport workers' union, said the select committee report was "the clearest warning to ministers against going down the route of rationing rail travel by pricing passengers off trains through super peak-fare tickets".
Sir Alastair Morton, the chairman of the Strategic Rail Authority, is gearing up to persuade ministers that large sums of public money will be needed in addition to private investment if demand for more rail travel is to be met.
The plans for HS2 project a 133% increase in demand for long-distance rail travel between now and 2033 over twice as big a rise as most other analyses, even though there is considerable evidence that demand for transport no longer rises with economic growth.
But I think the industry needs a big idea to rebuild confidence and next year we shall have a free day of rail travel, where if you buy a ticket to go and see your auntie in Inverness, then you get another one to go and see your auntie.
And we continue to work in ways, seen and unseen, to ensure that rail travel remains safe for Americans, and we are hyper-vigilant as ever, but even more so in the wake of obviously this significant mission and its success because of the potential for revenge attacks or anything like that.
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