America is always shifting, and a town created by railways is part of this theme.
New roads also tended to follow the trails already cut by railways.
Computers, software and telecoms now account for about 12% of America's total capital stock, not far short of the share accounted for by railways at the peak of America's railway age in the late 19th century.
It was built at Eastleigh, Hampshire, during 1948 and withdrawn by British Railways a year after its failed trip to the seaside.
As a result, Treasury support for the railways by 2004 will be about half the level prior to privatisation.
By atomising the railways into more than 100 different firms, with Railtrack and the train-operating companies at the core, privatisation created enormous new difficulties.
The overall investment package will increase capacity on the UK's railways by 17%, delivering more than 2, 100 new rail carriages by May 2019 in a bid to tackle overcrowding on the busiest services.
As its chairman, Sir Alastair Morton, has made clear, many billions of pounds need to be invested in the railways by the government, as well as private investors, over the next decade to meet projected demand for rail services by both passengers and freight.
In the past, populists have usually combined their attacks on the rich with proposals to upset the status quo by, for example, taking the railways into public ownership, or by increasing income taxes.
Breaking down the investment by sector, spending on projects backed by the central government rose by 40.3% in the first two months, while investment in transport, including railways, rocketed by 210.1%.
Although a growing number of Americans are travelling by train, the railways are old.
By 2002, the railways had 73 pensioners for every 100 employees, and pensions consumed nearly 15% of revenues.
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Dalrymple Bay, which is fed by state-owned railways, may be congested, but Port Hedland, in western Australia, certainly is not.
Clutching their cameras, a group of three 24-year-old girls waited patiently in a queue to take a photo by the Ministry of Railways building sign.
Those operated by the Italian state railways carry trains as well.
Whether or not China is able to avoid the "Malacca trap" by building pipeline and railways across Central Asia to the Middle East, it will still need Dubai as its hub for its growing reach into the Middle East and Africa.
But Britain's existing railways were largely built by private companies, whose backers eventually lost their shirts.
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John Prideaux was the first head of Union Railways, set up by British Rail to push through the Channel Tunnel rail link.
We can put these workers back to work by rebuilding our roads and bridges and railways.
The plan included privatising about 14, 000km of railways and roads, followed by selling ports and lowering energy costs.
At Indian Railways he made his mark by restoring a storm-ravaged bridge in 46 days when it might have taken six months.
For example, Kenyan firms move goods by road because the state-owned railways, though cheaper, invariably deliver late, if at all.
Creating jobs by rebuilding America's runways, railways and roads makes sense to groups like the American Public Transportation Association (APTA).
After leaving railways he was snapped up by Japan's National Space Development Agency and was its president until he retired in 1977.
The station was designed by the chief architect of North Eastern Railways William Bell and is currently on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk Register.
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Mapping out an investment strategy for the railways is made more difficult by the fact that the two senior figures charged with taking an overall view of the system are at each other's throats.
By 1946, he had sold out of railways altogether to concentrate on planes.
By the end of last year, the Railways Ministry had overseen the construction of 8, 358 kilometers of high-speed rail track.
By that I mean covered by buildings, roads, car parks, railways, paths and so on - what people might call "concreted over".
It said NI Railways fares will also be increased by an average of 3%, while Ulsterbus and Goldline fares will go up by 2%.
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