By the mid-1990s, America's rail industry was back on its feet.

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John Baker, from Network Rail, said it could be mid-week before services improved.

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No one dares estimate the tab for commuter subsidies--or the cost of maintaining a rail bureaucracy, known as the Mid-Region Council of Governments.

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This, I am told, is not true and she wants to continue in the belief that there is a lot left to do - the south may have got the rail boost but she wants to deliver projects that benefit mid Wales and the north too.

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In the mid-1990s, the European Commission was pressing the French to separate track and rail operations in the interests of greater financial transparency, and also to open the way for some competition on the tracks.

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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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