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12 Sep 2014: What happened to our trains? All aboard the Golden Arrow – for an enjoyable nostalgic journey conducted by eminent 'railwayac' Andrew Martin. By Kathryn Hughes -
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10 Sep 2014:
At 465km long, the Beijing metro system has already outgrown the London Underground. By 2020, an extra 400bn yuan (£40bn) of investment will see it more than double to 1,000km, according to Chinese media. The addition of 17 new lines will make it one of the world's longest networks
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10 Sep 2014:
From the world’s first subway system, the London Underground, to New York, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Buenos Aires
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3 Sep 2014: The three branch lines that form a triangle linking the Cumbrian coast and the Yorkshire Dales are among the most picturesque in the country – and together make a perfect day trip
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1 Aug 2014:
You can buy a train ticket for £3 from Birmingham to Edinburgh – or £107 arriving slightly later. We highlight some of the extraordinary anomalies of Britain's bewildering rail fare system
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1 Aug 2014:
Stephen Moss: Thankfully text, email and Facebook have reduced the number of people shouting into their mobiles. There are plenty of other ways to improve the passenger experience
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15 Jul 2014: The Co-operative Party's transport expert suggests a co-operative rail model could end high ticket prices and bad service
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10 Jul 2014: Letters: Since train operations were fully privatised, journeys have increased annually on average by 4%, almost doubling in 16 years to 1.6bn in 2013-14
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18 Jun 2014: Country diary: Alston, Cumbria: The flycatcher was still at work, unmoved by the passing of the mechanical monster with its clicketty-clack coaches
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7 Jun 2014: Ian Jack: Mallaig's days as a bustling herring port are long gone, but the town is still full of people today. Few would have guessed that its commercial salvation would be owed to a modern fairytale
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27 May 2014: Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: On his tour of Italian railways Tim Parks extrapolates the Italian character with great plausibility and belly-laugh humour
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12 May 2014:
It's an offence to travel without a valid rail ticket. But for one commuter the price of a one-off incident proved very high
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29 Apr 2014: Last week, 50 veterans and descendants from the original Anzacs travelled from one end of Australia to the other on board the Ghan. Paul Daley joined them as they met old comrades, pondered their history, and remembered the dead
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28 Apr 2014:
We arranged to pick it up at the rail station but it proved impossible
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17 Apr 2014:
London Underground workers are to stage five days of strike action in dispute over tube ticket offices
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