For the Conservatives, Alex Johnstone welcomed the commitment in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition negotiations to establish a high-speed rail network.
Other areas relating to Scotland include plans for a new high speed rail network and the scrapping of ID cards.
China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars on its high-speed rail network - it's already the biggest in the world.
The announcement of the planned route of the HS2 high-speed rail network.
China is currently expanding its high-speed rail network across the vast country.
In time, all seven emirates -- and all the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries -- will be linked by a coastal high-speed rail network.
So we now have projects in 31 states that are laying the ground for the first high-speed rail network in the United States of America.
But you only have to study the experience of Japan, France, Spain and Germany to see the benefits that a high-speed rail network can bring.
The government has had a change of heart about rapidly expanding the high-speed rail network following a fatal crash of two high-speed trains in July.
The local airport is being joined to the high-speed rail network.
To build the infrastructure of tomorrow, we're investing in expanded broadband access and health information technology, clean energy facilities and the first high-speed rail network in America.
This Preparation Bill, which will apply to England, Scotland and Wales, also allows for "preparatory work for future phases of a high speed rail network at the appropriate time".
Now the world's second-largest economy, and flush with cash, China has built the world's longest high-speed rail network -- boasting more than 8, 300 kilometers (5, 100 miles) of routes -- in a few short years.
China already has the world's fastest long-range passenger train (the "Harmony" averages 220mph on the Guangzhou-Wuhan route, compared with 170mph for France's TGV), and soon expects to have the world's largest high-speed rail network too.
This is the time saved by those people using high speed instead of medium speed (and the current rail network between the proposed points is medium, not low, speed) transport.
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What's more, legislation approved by the European Union last year that requires national rail systems to open up to operators from other countries by 2010, will further push development of a European network of high-speed rail.
With that kind of money you could entirely build out a national network of true high-speed rail.
And there would be a 15-year priority programme of improvements to the rail network, including the introduction of high speed links between London, Heathrow Airport, Birmingham and Manchester.
The Association of Train Operating Companies and the Campaign for Better Transport said the high-speed rail link was vital, but it should not come at the expense of investment in the rest of the rail network.
If that makes for a better rail network, then many Chinese will agree that speed is not everything.
Despite having to slow its originally rapid expansion plans, China recently increased its budget for railway investment this year by 16% and expects to lay 13, 000 km of high-speed rail by January 2013 -- more than the combined rail network installed across all Western countries over the past half-century.
Network Rail said it was installing new signals to speed up journeys between Norton Bridge and Crewe.
Kirsty Anderson, a spokeswoman for Network Rail in the South West, said they had implemented a 50mph speed limit.
The HS2 network, which will link Manchester to Birmingham and London via high-speed rail, will enter the city through a 7.5 mile (12km) tunnel.
If plans for new high-speed routes across Britain are agreed, the earliest construction could begin is 2014, says Network Rail.
Network Rail, which is carrying out the work, said the changes would improve the speed of its rail services.
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