And I think that when people look back in five years time at, you know, what did, what did Virgin do for this country, I think what we've done - what we will have done for the train network in this country, will be one of the most important things.
The money will be spent on improving car parks, providing better facilities for cyclists and upgrading toilets at 56 stations across the train network.
The train operators claim that privatising the rail network as a monopoly has given disproportionate power to Railtrack.
Earlier, train services on the Southern Rail network were severely disrupted out of Brighton due to over-running engineering works.
The motorway network is intermittent, and taking the train from Newcastle to Middlesbrough is a one and a quarter hour trundle.
The Heathrow Express rail service offers train journeys to Heathrow airport, but the British rail network is not as integrated nor as fast as its continental brethren.
The separation of the rail network from train operating companies, by contrast, has not.
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And frequent business travelers will eventually be able to use a 'train mile' program across the entire network.
The train-operating companies are increasingly fed up with the dire state of the network and would welcome fundamental reform.
Anthony Smith, of consumer group Passenger Focus, said passengers would be pleased to see Network Rail and the train companies "planning together to keep investing to meet key passenger priorities as shown by Passenger Focus research".
Five new platforms, an elevated railway, a new station entrance and a new train depot are among the improvements laid out by Network Rail.
In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
Mr Winsor will decide in December how much Network Rail can charge train companies for using the tracks it maintains.
Train operators are responsible for almost half the delays on the network.
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Fewer train operating companies, but also in the re-franchising process perhaps some sort of over-arching contract that all train operating companies subscribe to, to give passengers back the network benefits that were lost in the privatisation process.
Services are running on about 80% of the network, according to a spokeswoman for the train company.
Though one train operator, Go-Ahead, has called for dismembering the network into four or five regional companies, there is little enthusiasm in the industry, and none in government, for further fundamental upheaval.
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Train tunnels were flooded and electrical equipment will have to be cleaned before the network can reopen.
In May, the MoD suggested setting up a network of combat simulators to train US and UK troops involved in joint operations.
Network Rail said there would be an extra train per hour on the Coventry to Nuneaton line to help ease congestion.
In January, Network Rail said there would be an extra train per hour on the Coventry to Nuneaton line to help ease congestion.
But Stewart Francis, chairman of the Rail Passengers Council, points out that while the train operators' performance is nearly back at pre-Hatfield levels, Network Rail's is not, and it continues to deteriorate.
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Network Rail says the introduction of the second track will "improve train punctuality, reduce journey times and allow more services".
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Amtrak extended its suspension of train service between New York and Boston through Saturday night, and the Boston area's transit network remained shut down for the day on Saturday.
Three decades ago, the French government developed Minitel, a national communications network that allowed users to send messages, book train reservations and so on.
Heavy rain was to blame for a landslip which caused the train, which was carrying stone, to tip over on Thursday in Barrow-on-Soar, Network Rail said.
King Abdullah is highly mindful of the fact that jihadists who had gone to Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s had filtered back and created a homegrown militant network, using their military expertise to train a new generation who then went on to attack not just Westerners in the kingdom but the Saudi royal family itself.
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