The railways also provided thousands of new jobs: building carriages, running the railways and repairing the tracks.

铁路也提供了数以千计的新工作：制造车厢、运营铁路和维修铁轨。

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In most of France, for instance, private franchise-holders supply the water but local authorities maintain the pipes a solution which, if applied to Britain's railways, would have the government owning carriages and engines but not running trains.

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The overall investment package will increase capacity on the UK's railways by 17%, delivering more than 2, 100 new rail carriages by May 2019 in a bid to tackle overcrowding on the busiest services.

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