The Javelin high-speed train from St.

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The French are not happy that German trains, not French ones, will run on the soon-to-open high-speed link between Moscow and St Petersburg, nor that Siemens is pulling out of its nuclear joint venture with Areva.

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The 68-mile high speed railway line runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone in Kent.

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There will be nothing high-speed about an express from Chicago to St Louis that stops nine times in between.

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Distance is no longer a barrier, he says, and high-speed internet has allowed local businesses in St Agnes to think about location in entirely new ways.

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She also foresees a spur linking Britain's only existing high-speed line (from the Channel Tunnel to London's St Pancras station) to Heathrow airport.

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Now to be known as High Speed 1 (HS1), the 68-mile link runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone, in Kent.

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