Sector: Rail Transport
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October 2008
Two Wheeled Liberté
An elegant irony of globalisation is that China produces most of the world's bicycles yet does little to encourage cycling, ...
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November 2007
Golden Age
The horizon is crowded with new rail track openings that will treble the size of Europe’s high-speed network to over ...
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November 2007
High Speed Ahead
Europe’s 5,000km of high-speed railway track will swell by a factor of three by 2020, making it the most impressive ...
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November 2007
Meet Me At St Pancras
The UK has joined the high-speed railway club belatedly, but it has done so in style, says Richard Lofthouse Despite ...
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November 2007
Worlds Apart
The opening of the UK’s sole piece of high-speed track into London’s St Pancras station on 14 November brings to ...
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November 2007
Global Shift
Anthony Lambert looks at how Deutsche Bahn is rapidly becoming Europe’s only serious worldwide contender in rail freight Over the ...
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November 2007
A New Orient Express
Anthony Lambert looks at a high-tech future of simplified ticketing, cross-border service and trains with boardroom-style meeting areas Imagine a ...
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November 2007
The Greenest Option?
In these carbon-aware days, train companies are starting to push their credentials as the low-emission option, eager to exploit the ...
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October 2007
Delivering The Next Windfall
Where low-cost airlines pioneered, motorways and rail networks have followed – and the increasing mobility between European cities created new ...
