But the train operating firm have said they are not prepared to compromise on safety.
It ground to a halt in Kent at about 2245 GMT, but the train brought in to replace it did not arrive at London's St Pancras station until 0235 GMT on Monday.
Similarly, it's only 40 miles from Manchester to Leeds, but the fastest train takes nearly an hour.
At first these display table numbers, but once the train departs they show a constantly updating route map, interrupted by carefully timed bursts of music and video that match an attraction appearing alongside the train.
And animals still periodically blockade the track, leaving the driver little choice but to stop the train, get out and chase them off with a big stick.
Fakes can be hard to spot, but the best traders train sales staff to do just that: become experts in the subtle signs of bad goods in their areas of specialty.
"They hadn't left the train but there were outbreaks of the disease all the way along the route the train took -- Switzerland was hit especially hard".
Three families were inside the apartment building hit by the train but nobody was injured, the spokesman added.
Birmingham to Manchester is not much more than half the distance, but I found the fastest train between the two actually took longer: about 90 minutes.
Some railway routes were affected by the earthquake, but Trenitalia, the Italian train system, said late Tuesday afternoon that all had been reopened and that train service was returning to normal.
Under the initiative, central government will pay for the project, but the new intake will train on-the-job in local authorities for about 200 days - the same as other would-be social workers.
No question the malaise is economy-wide, but soon many businesses outside the train building business are earning good profits, but not growing.
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The crossing sequence should be automatically started by the approaching train, but the RAIB report said that "on this occasion the crossing closure sequence commenced earlier".
He said that 92 out of some 300 migrants on the train had been arrested by migration officials, but that shortly afterwards, the train was stopped by unidentified gunmen.
Stansted and Norwich airports operated normally but the Stansted Express train from London Liverpool Street is a bus service this weekend.
But once the litigation train starts down the track, it is hard to stop, and it is impossible to foresee its consequences.
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Herefordshire and Worcestershire Chamber of Commerce said easier access to Bromsgrove is positive but the cost of train travel was an issue.
There are typically fewer rail travellers during Christmas week than at normal times, but the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) said people would still make 20 million rail journeys between 23 December and 3 January.
At the time I didn't know there was a strike, but did notice that the train was not terribly busy.
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There were eight passengers on board the train but no-one was injured in the incident.
Some overnight car parking would be available, but making the journey by train, taxi or foot would still be preferable.
Alan Connett had a ticket from Newton Abbot to London Paddington, but decided to board the train up the line at Exeter after his circumstances changed.
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The train is expensive but lives up to what you dream a train journey could be, with sumptous tables draped in white linen, pisco sours, scented towels and fantastic food.
If the state is honest, but weak, the Bank can try to train judges and equip civil servants.
But the FGAAC union, which represents most train drivers said it rejected the pay offer, though two other unions welcomed the management's proposal.
It is an hour at least before the Toronto train comes into the station, but it seems hardly any time at all.
Sometimes the two intersect: In this studio session, they play Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train, " but in an arrangement by the contemporary American composer Paul Chihara.
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