But there is something about a small town that has never gone a single day, in almost 150 years, without a passenger train pulling in and pausing to see if anyone would like to step out onto the streets of Garden City, or if anyone from Garden City would like to climb aboard and join the other cross-continental travelers...

CNN: A Kansas town tries to keep the train coming through

Train operators are running 1, 000 extra services a day while the number of passenger journeys has increased by nearly 100m in the past two years.

ECONOMIST: Railways