Eight months later the train is not only going faster but we are running out of track.

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"Eurotunnel should be forced to move out of the ferry business and carry on running an excellent train line and tunnel that they do, " he said.

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Earlier, train services on the Southern Rail network were severely disrupted out of Brighton due to over-running engineering works.

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Although the Grand Canyon Railway was out of commission from 1968 until the late 1980s, the train is back up and running.

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Mr. Sharif is positioning himself as a pragmatist who would steer Pakistan out of its economic tailspin with big infrastructure projects, including a bullet train he envisions running across the country.

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He pointed out, for instance, that the train had lost out to the airplane and the motor car because it thought it was in the business of running trains rather than that of providing customers with transport.

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