At Exeter, Network Rail is using a water-filled tube to act as a dam to protect the main railway line between London Paddington and Penzance from flooding.

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The train wreck illustrates one economic reality of the U.S. shale drilling boom, which is that energy companies have turned to shipping by rail as pipeline capacity has been filled.

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He travelled widely by rail, invariably fourth-class, laden with suitcases filled both with junk for his collages and with Hanover potatoes and carrots for his meals.

ECONOMIST: Kurt Schwitters

The latter criterion is especially important: It makes no sense to have a repeat of last winter's food aid fiasco in which, for example, 20, 000 containers and 300 freight cars filled with food were discovered spoiling weeks after they had arrived in a Moscow rail yard.

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