Look at the radial, hub-and-spokes, design of Spain's rail networks and Air Iberia's flights.
Crossrail, a scheme designed to improve London's rail system, traces its ancestry to 1974.
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Meanwhile, the Virgin bandwagon roared on as he won important franchises in the country's rail network.
Edinburgh's Waverley Station will be virtually rebuilt under proposals to improve Scotland's rail network.
The Virgin bandwagon roared on as he won important franchises in the country's rail network.
Ian McAllister, a former head of Ford Britain, chairs the firm that now owns Britain's rail network.
He worked at Alstom's rail division and then ran it for several years in the late 1990s.
"You're competing against all the other needs of the state, " said Betsy Imholt, Oregon's rail study director.
Party-goers and revellers have been warned to stay safe on Scotland's rail network over the festive season.
It also threatened last week to blockade Moldova's rail system, if a debt is not paid promptly.
It has 80% of the continent's rail network and is home to the region's biggest stock exchange.
Bear in mind it carries more passengers in one day than the whole of the UK's rail system.
"There is major damage on each and every one of New Jersey's rail lines, " Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday.
Parts of Britain's rail system, such as the commuter routes into Paddington, are under pressure from rising traffic volumes.
But these services and Europe's rail and road networks could provide some with alternative means of getting to their destinations.
The question is: will they continue to do so, or will their squabbling bring Britain's rail revival to a screeching halt?
The theft of cables used for signalling, compounded by human error, caused the crash, said the head of South Africa's rail authority.
To divvy up the giant train set, SNCB managers in January 2011 organized a secret meeting with directors of Belgium's rail heritage associations.
Mr Corrigan is frustrated by the fact that Australia's rail tracks still have seven different state and federal government owners, and some 30 regulators.
The humble train is getting a boost from record oil prices, as companies switch out of planes and cars and into Europe's rail networks.
The reports, by the Department of Transport's Rail Accident Investigation Branch, followed three derailments, at Waterloo station and at Epsom in Surrey in 2006.
Plans for some of Kent's rail services to be taken over by Transport for London (TfL) are unacceptable, Kent County Council has told the government.
By the mid-1990s, America's rail industry was back on its feet.
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The new company is still only at proposal stage, and the government is also keen to encourage bids from private companies to run Britain's rail network.
The key to unlocking Europe's rail-freight potential lies in co-ordinating its Byzantine network of 30 national railways, each with its own standards, fare structure and regulations.
The problem this time was not the unions, who readily agreed to a new deal, but the cack-handed government management under which Australia's rail network had fallen into decline.
Since Navarri took over as head of Bombardier's rail business in 2004, he's executed a turnaround that also has focused on cost-cutting, more disciplined bidding for contracts and better manufacturing practices.
More recently, safety, and economic and investment issues created by vertical separation, have caused huge problems on Britain's rail network and there is increasing disenchantment with the industry structure in place.
"It was very important for us to have an architect who had (designed) stations before and knew how to prevent the problems, " said Louis Maraite, a spokesman for SNCB-Holding, which operates Belgium's rail stations.
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