The whole point of Virgin Rail's investment in new trains, faster journey times and greater frequencies is to double passenger numbers.
South West Trains said it had launched a joint 10-point plan with Network Rail to tackle the drop in performance and fall in customer satisfaction in response to the survey.
Let me make a general point about high-speed rail as well as the way the infrastructure is being moved through the Recovery Act.
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In recent years, it extended a rail line to a point nearby the facility and it tested a large rocket engine at the facility in November 2010.
That joint had been a point of chronic trouble since a rail was replaced there in February, according to an attorney representing workers on the two Metro-North trains that crashed.
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They point out that the existing trans-Alpine road and rail routes seem to cope very nicely, thank you.
It's also a key service point for operators, especially in Great Britain, where rail breakdowns and delays on the formerly government-owned lines have given privatization a bad name.
The number of rail breaks on British railways has risen substantially since the low point of 1990.
After an entire afternoon of claim and counter claim, and what looked to outsiders like point scoring, finally at 1730 BST on Tuesday the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) announced next week's strike was suspended.
Gordon Brown's friends would point out that he did visit Wales, once to announce electrification of the same rail line.
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But we should also point out that there were other clauses in the treaty whereby Austria undertook to increase the rail infrastructure to make up for any shortfall in road transport.
The high point for Bombardier was to be a photo opportunity with its boss and the PM to celebrate new rail carriages on the Gauteng line between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Bloomberg made it a point to wave a pair of metrocards as he reminded the crowd of the 11 subway lines and Long Island Rail Road stop down below.
The locomotive and the next two vehicles travel over the fracture point without coming to harm but the HSE can tell from damage caused to the underside of the coaches that the rail had already started to disintegrate.
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