Two sources mention the Qatari cash link to the HS2 project..
Greengauge 21 publish a report on rail in the north..and rebalancing the economy..
Eurostar has a new train fleet with a Ferrari influence... and Christian Wolmar offers his thoughts on both the northern issue and Eurostar's future operations which currently are not that Europe centric....
A timelapse video on the Trans Siberian....
And truly in the past (1938/9) Sir Nicholas Winton (105 years old) modestly recalls the events
of bringing 669 children on special trains from Nazi dominated Prague..
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UK
Qatari cash linked to HS2 scheme (Birmingham Post)
Qatar in talks to fund UK high-speed rail development plan (ArabianBusiness.com)
Derby Bombardier wins £145m Gatwick train order.(BBC News)
Manifesto watch: Where parties stand on key issues...including the railways..(BBC News)
Rail bosses have 'no idea' where Bolton's extra 200 train seats will come from, claims MP.(The Bolton News)
Badgers force trains to stop on Cambrian Coast line after burrowing hole.(Daily Post)
Network Rail Press Release
Passengers advised to allow more time when using Birmingham New Street station in the build-up to Christmas
With Birmingham’s famous Christmas Market underway and the number of visitors to the city increasing, passengers are being advised to allow for more time to catch their trains at New Street station.
Sales grow for tenth successive quarter as railway station retailers continue to beat the high street
Latest figures from Network Rail show that retail sales at Britain’s biggest and busiest stations have grown for the tenth quarter in a row, highlighting the changing habits of Britain’s modern consumers.
Euston station piazza development & King's Cross retailing (Network Rail Pictures)
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Almost five million people visited the market last year, putting increased pressure on the rail network and the station which is in the process of being redeveloped.
The Christmas Market runs until Monday 22 December and, combined with the seasonal increase in shoppers, helps to create one of the busiest times of the year in the city.
To handle the increased passenger numbers - which sees the number of people using the station each day average around 180,000 - crowd control measures will be in place at the station to safely move people between the concourse area and platforms and extra staff will be on hand to provide assistance.
Steve Lewis, station manager at Birmingham New Street, said: “The Christmas Market and festive period are great for Birmingham but put a significant pressure on the station to safely manage much higher passenger numbers and sudden large surges of people trying to catch their train.
“One Friday last year saw an increase of 55,000 people using the station compared to normal and while the station team did a fantastic job of helping to keep people on the move, there was inevitable disruption to some passengers.
“Our advice is to always allow for extra time to make your train and check before you travel. Specialist crowd management staff will be in place across the station to manage passenger flows as well as extra station staff to provide advice and information.”
For the latest information regarding rail services visit www.nationalrail.co.uk; for specific Birmingham New Street station information visit www.facebook.com/birminghamnewstreet or follow @NetworkRailBHM.
Birmingham New Street station's concourse & Crowd control measures in place at Birmingham New Street station, December 2013 (Network Rail Pictures)
The Christmas Market runs until Monday 22 December and, combined with the seasonal increase in shoppers, helps to create one of the busiest times of the year in the city.
To handle the increased passenger numbers - which sees the number of people using the station each day average around 180,000 - crowd control measures will be in place at the station to safely move people between the concourse area and platforms and extra staff will be on hand to provide assistance.
Steve Lewis, station manager at Birmingham New Street, said: “The Christmas Market and festive period are great for Birmingham but put a significant pressure on the station to safely manage much higher passenger numbers and sudden large surges of people trying to catch their train.
“One Friday last year saw an increase of 55,000 people using the station compared to normal and while the station team did a fantastic job of helping to keep people on the move, there was inevitable disruption to some passengers.
“Our advice is to always allow for extra time to make your train and check before you travel. Specialist crowd management staff will be in place across the station to manage passenger flows as well as extra station staff to provide advice and information.”
For the latest information regarding rail services visit www.nationalrail.co.uk; for specific Birmingham New Street station information visit www.facebook.com/birminghamnewstreet or follow @NetworkRailBHM.
Birmingham New Street station's concourse & Crowd control measures in place at Birmingham New Street station, December 2013 (Network Rail Pictures)
Sales grow for tenth successive quarter as railway station retailers continue to beat the high street
Latest figures from Network Rail show that retail sales at Britain’s biggest and busiest stations have grown for the tenth quarter in a row, highlighting the changing habits of Britain’s modern consumers.
Like-for-like sales at Network Rail’s 18 managed stations for July to September 2014 jumped by 6.23% compared to the same period in 2013. The increase is in stark contrast to high street sales, which fell by 0.05% according to the British Retail Consortium.
London Waterloo and Liverpool Lime Street were the two best performing Network Rail managed stations, recording 18.73% and 14.10% sales growth respectively, while Birmingham New Street has benefited from the first phase of the station’s major redevelopment which launched in April last year, recording the third highest like-for-like sales growth of 12.23%.
The results show stations both inside and outside of London continue to record solid gains with Charing Cross (11.58%), Glasgow (10.76%), Edinburgh (5.43%) and Manchester (4.95%), all moving forward strongly. Specialist food and gifting brands are growing significantly as part of the station retail mix, with like-for-like sales increases of 18.08% and 14.58%. Pubs and Bars also grew by 11.94% compared to this time last year.
Network Rail Property’s head of retail, Samantha Turner, said: “These results again demonstrate how people are changing the way they shop, eat and travel. Convenience and combined retail and transport hubs are an increasingly high priority for the busy British public and our strategy to create destination stations is delivering for our customers.
“Creating stations that welcome rail passengers and encourage them to spend time in and around our retail units is great for our retailers, and it’s clear that the expanded and improved retail offer at our stations is meeting the needs of today’s passengers and station visitors.”
Network Rail’s retail sales success has been driven by a rolling programme of improvements by the company’s property division at its 18 managed stations, which saw £100m invested to improve retail facilities in 2009-14 and a further £150m being invested over the 2014-19 period.
Major schemes either planned or under way include work to install a new balcony and expanded retail area at London Euston, the opening of the newly designed Birmingham New Street in September 2015 – which incorporates the new Grand Central shopping centre including the largest John Lewis store outside London – and an upgrade to the Paddington Lawn shopping area at London Paddington.
Network Rail reinvests all profits from its commercial activities back into the railway, creating a better railway for a better Britain.
Samantha Turner continued: “We’ve got some great ideas, a range of innovative brands and wonderful new concepts that will keep our business growing into the future.”
London Waterloo and Liverpool Lime Street were the two best performing Network Rail managed stations, recording 18.73% and 14.10% sales growth respectively, while Birmingham New Street has benefited from the first phase of the station’s major redevelopment which launched in April last year, recording the third highest like-for-like sales growth of 12.23%.
The results show stations both inside and outside of London continue to record solid gains with Charing Cross (11.58%), Glasgow (10.76%), Edinburgh (5.43%) and Manchester (4.95%), all moving forward strongly. Specialist food and gifting brands are growing significantly as part of the station retail mix, with like-for-like sales increases of 18.08% and 14.58%. Pubs and Bars also grew by 11.94% compared to this time last year.
Network Rail Property’s head of retail, Samantha Turner, said: “These results again demonstrate how people are changing the way they shop, eat and travel. Convenience and combined retail and transport hubs are an increasingly high priority for the busy British public and our strategy to create destination stations is delivering for our customers.
“Creating stations that welcome rail passengers and encourage them to spend time in and around our retail units is great for our retailers, and it’s clear that the expanded and improved retail offer at our stations is meeting the needs of today’s passengers and station visitors.”
Network Rail’s retail sales success has been driven by a rolling programme of improvements by the company’s property division at its 18 managed stations, which saw £100m invested to improve retail facilities in 2009-14 and a further £150m being invested over the 2014-19 period.
Major schemes either planned or under way include work to install a new balcony and expanded retail area at London Euston, the opening of the newly designed Birmingham New Street in September 2015 – which incorporates the new Grand Central shopping centre including the largest John Lewis store outside London – and an upgrade to the Paddington Lawn shopping area at London Paddington.
Network Rail reinvests all profits from its commercial activities back into the railway, creating a better railway for a better Britain.
Samantha Turner continued: “We’ve got some great ideas, a range of innovative brands and wonderful new concepts that will keep our business growing into the future.”
Notes:
Network Rail…- owns and manages 18 of Britain’s biggest and busiest stations (as well as managing St Pancras International on behalf of HS1 Ltd).
- reinvests all profits from commercial activities into Britain’s railway infrastructure.
- is one of the largest land and property owners in the country and during the five-year period which ended on 31 March 2014, generated £1.4bn from commercial activities for re-investment in its rail estate. This is enough to transform Birmingham New Street or King’s Cross station, or put in place 5,000km of new railway.
- has over 510,000 sq ft of retail space at 18 of the largest stations across the country, showcasing many leading high-street brands.
- is also the country's largest provider of commercial property to small and medium sized businesses, with over 7,000 properties nationwide.
- works in partnership to develop railway land and property no longer required for operational use, including multi-million pound commercial schemes above our station at Birmingham New Street and joint ventures with the likes of Ballymore, Bloc, Kier and The Office Group.
Euston station piazza development & King's Cross retailing (Network Rail Pictures)
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Rail 760: Eurostar struggles to make a European impact
Nigel Farage may want to take us out of Europe but in many respects, oddly, our railways have never really truly connected with it. Eurostar is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary but it has not had the impact on our railway system that seemed possible at the time the Channel Tunnel was built.
Talking to a group of railway ticket agents recently confirmed my view that the Eurostar service has been stymied by government legislation, safety rules and the timidity of its executives. Take, for example, ticketing. It is still impossible to buy tickets through Eurostar for most European destinations.
On the Eurostar website, there are 70 destinations in France but while many big cities are omitted, you can buy a ticket for St Pierre des Corps and Le Creusot (presumably not where the Le Creuset cooking pots are made). Belgium is well covered – though the free onward travel to any destination there is no longer offered – since SNCB, the Belgian railway is a part owner and it is a small country. There are three destinations in each of the Netherlands and Germany, and oddly five in Switzerland. It is possible to buy tickets to travel from around 100 stations in the UK, but that is still pretty poor given there are some 2,500 overall. So for the most part, people turning up at St Pancras Eurostar ticket offices seeking to buy tickets for continental destinations are despatched to other agencies, notably Trainseurope which has a counter in St Pancras next to the East Midlands one – and clearly takes a cut from providing the service.
Eurostar boss Nicolas Petrovic reckons that expanding the market for precisely these markets is crucial to Eurostar’s future. ‘The Eurostar market is made of many smaller markets, ‘, he told me ‘and clearly travel that takes in a Eurostar journey as part of a longer trip is a key one’. Eurostar passed the 10 million mark annually for the first time I 2014 (nearly 20 years late compared with original projections when the service first opened but let’s leave that aside) but now needs to grow fast since new rolling stock has been ordered. The biggest recent growth market, incidentally, has been foreign visitors on trips around Europe who visit London using the train.
Petrovic says these new trains will be used on all year round routes to Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and places in France such as Marseille, Avignon and Lyon but – and this is a big but – travellers to those French destinations will be encumbered by the kind of travel experience that seems devised by the KGB or the Stasi. Because of the security requirements of going through the tunnel and the refusal of the Borders Agency to check passports on trains, passengers will have to leave the train at Lille, with their luggage, go through customs and passport control, and get back on, a process that will add an hour to their journey time.
This has already been happening this summer on trains from Avignon and words fail me in describing just how the bonkers nature of such a process – choose any from crazy, insane, mad, ridiculous, daft. Only the railways would have to endure such a crazy scheme – it is rather like asking people to get out of their cars and push them for 100 yards so that they can park it. The more insuperable barrier, apparently, is not so much the passengers but their luggage which needs to be screened to get through the tunnel as enshrined in the Channel Tunnel Act. This is in itself madness. An explosion in the tunnel would of course be deadly but it would have to be of a size far beyond a suitcase full of explosives to damage the tunnel itself – explosions spread through the weakest point and therefore would run along the tunnel. Eurostar needs to get together with Eurotunnel to clarify these requirements but also it should not accept this shabby arrangement. It could, for example, use one carriage for baggage alone, screen it all with a portable machine and get round the legislation that way. Making passengers get on and off a train is just not acceptable in the 21st century and severely degrades the product. I for one would hesitate about wasting my time in that way.
The new destinations will be welcome, but the slow progress that Eurostar has made in adding new destinations demonstrates the rigidity of the railways in trying to adapt to their product to the needs of the 21st century. In 2007, the various high speed services in Europe got together to create Railteam which was supposed to create a seamless travel arrangement between different operators and a unified website. In fact, the website idea has been abandoned as the systems proved incompatible and Railteam as a brand has made all the impact of a fleabite on a rhinoceros.
Much of this is not the railways’ fault but rather the result of over-regulation and government interference. The fact that railways in narrow economic terms are rarely commercial is their undoing but with strong leadership from railway managers and support from the right sort of politicians – like all too briefly Lord Adonis provided – so much of their potential could be realised.
Incidentally, Eurostar is still 40 per cent owned by the British government but that arrangement is about to end as the Chancellor, George Osborne, is keen for any small goodies to put in his tuck box, even though the expected £300m garnered from the sale will barely make any difference to the £2,000 billion national debt – in other words just 0.015 per cent. Ideology rules again, I suspect, since Eurostar is at last beginning to make a bit of money (having had the capital value of its trains written off and also been majority owned by SNCF whose finances make an Italian train window seem transparent!)
Privatisation will probably make any further integration even more difficult. The more owners there are for Europe’s high speed lines, the less likely are joint arrangements and deals. With reports that several sleeper services are being scrapped, some very longstanding, in Europe, the continents railways are becoming less connected, not more. Farage will be delighted.
Virgin’s non existent ticket checks
I always find it odd that the train companies, so anxious to collect every penny from the odd passenger who transgresses the advanced ticket rules and unapologetic about making them pay all over again for a new ticket, are so lax about ticket checks.
After my recent rant (I confess I do rant sometimes) about the lack of ticket checks on several long trips on Virgin, a reader, Chris Lewis, wrote to agree. He said that Chris Gibb, the former boss of Virgin Rail, had promised to institute regular on train checks but these had not materialised. (I know from talking to Chris, an excellent and thorough manager, that he was very exercised about this but somehow could not persuade the train managers to walk down the train. I used to text him regularly when checks did not materialise and he took action.)
Chris Lewis pointed out that checks between stations in the regions are so rare that one young man he knows used Virgin trains for commuting between Warrington and Preston for two years and never got caught. The same is true, of course, of south London, where I have made several journeys recently and there is no doubt that it is treated as a free railway by many local people.
Northern angst
Meanwhile, a rather more important issue is brewing in the North. There is widespread fury among passengers about the removal of off-peak tickets for journeys in the evening peak. As Barry Doe suggests, this may not even be legal and this may be challenged, but in the meantime my friends in the North report that traffic has been very badly affected. People going into the centre of Manchester and Leeds for a night out have been deterred by the high cost of fares and this has reduced the numbers using what are contra-flow services, precisely the sort of market that train operators want to capture. As one of them put it, ‘the guys who devised this idea in the Department for Transport are clearly not economists . The effect stretches way beyond the railways, and has had an impact on the whole night time economy (which I can say from my recent three day stay in Manchester before the change was introduced is booming).
As my Northern friends point out, it is amazing that the Chancellor, a rare Tory northern MP, talks about boosting jobs in the north at the same time as allowing through this change which is so damaging to many local interests.
This change, hastily brought in by Abellio under pressure from government which wants to see a reduction in the subsidies going to Northern, will have to be written into the new franchise which is due to start in February 2016 but there is enormous pressure for the change to be scrapped. There is therefore, a real battle brewing over it and northern MPs should get together to press for the policy’s reversal by highlighting the contradictory nature of government policy.
On the Eurostar website, there are 70 destinations in France but while many big cities are omitted, you can buy a ticket for St Pierre des Corps and Le Creusot (presumably not where the Le Creuset cooking pots are made). Belgium is well covered – though the free onward travel to any destination there is no longer offered – since SNCB, the Belgian railway is a part owner and it is a small country. There are three destinations in each of the Netherlands and Germany, and oddly five in Switzerland. It is possible to buy tickets to travel from around 100 stations in the UK, but that is still pretty poor given there are some 2,500 overall. So for the most part, people turning up at St Pancras Eurostar ticket offices seeking to buy tickets for continental destinations are despatched to other agencies, notably Trainseurope which has a counter in St Pancras next to the East Midlands one – and clearly takes a cut from providing the service.
Eurostar boss Nicolas Petrovic reckons that expanding the market for precisely these markets is crucial to Eurostar’s future. ‘The Eurostar market is made of many smaller markets, ‘, he told me ‘and clearly travel that takes in a Eurostar journey as part of a longer trip is a key one’. Eurostar passed the 10 million mark annually for the first time I 2014 (nearly 20 years late compared with original projections when the service first opened but let’s leave that aside) but now needs to grow fast since new rolling stock has been ordered. The biggest recent growth market, incidentally, has been foreign visitors on trips around Europe who visit London using the train.
Petrovic says these new trains will be used on all year round routes to Amsterdam and Rotterdam, and places in France such as Marseille, Avignon and Lyon but – and this is a big but – travellers to those French destinations will be encumbered by the kind of travel experience that seems devised by the KGB or the Stasi. Because of the security requirements of going through the tunnel and the refusal of the Borders Agency to check passports on trains, passengers will have to leave the train at Lille, with their luggage, go through customs and passport control, and get back on, a process that will add an hour to their journey time.
This has already been happening this summer on trains from Avignon and words fail me in describing just how the bonkers nature of such a process – choose any from crazy, insane, mad, ridiculous, daft. Only the railways would have to endure such a crazy scheme – it is rather like asking people to get out of their cars and push them for 100 yards so that they can park it. The more insuperable barrier, apparently, is not so much the passengers but their luggage which needs to be screened to get through the tunnel as enshrined in the Channel Tunnel Act. This is in itself madness. An explosion in the tunnel would of course be deadly but it would have to be of a size far beyond a suitcase full of explosives to damage the tunnel itself – explosions spread through the weakest point and therefore would run along the tunnel. Eurostar needs to get together with Eurotunnel to clarify these requirements but also it should not accept this shabby arrangement. It could, for example, use one carriage for baggage alone, screen it all with a portable machine and get round the legislation that way. Making passengers get on and off a train is just not acceptable in the 21st century and severely degrades the product. I for one would hesitate about wasting my time in that way.
The new destinations will be welcome, but the slow progress that Eurostar has made in adding new destinations demonstrates the rigidity of the railways in trying to adapt to their product to the needs of the 21st century. In 2007, the various high speed services in Europe got together to create Railteam which was supposed to create a seamless travel arrangement between different operators and a unified website. In fact, the website idea has been abandoned as the systems proved incompatible and Railteam as a brand has made all the impact of a fleabite on a rhinoceros.
Much of this is not the railways’ fault but rather the result of over-regulation and government interference. The fact that railways in narrow economic terms are rarely commercial is their undoing but with strong leadership from railway managers and support from the right sort of politicians – like all too briefly Lord Adonis provided – so much of their potential could be realised.
Incidentally, Eurostar is still 40 per cent owned by the British government but that arrangement is about to end as the Chancellor, George Osborne, is keen for any small goodies to put in his tuck box, even though the expected £300m garnered from the sale will barely make any difference to the £2,000 billion national debt – in other words just 0.015 per cent. Ideology rules again, I suspect, since Eurostar is at last beginning to make a bit of money (having had the capital value of its trains written off and also been majority owned by SNCF whose finances make an Italian train window seem transparent!)
Privatisation will probably make any further integration even more difficult. The more owners there are for Europe’s high speed lines, the less likely are joint arrangements and deals. With reports that several sleeper services are being scrapped, some very longstanding, in Europe, the continents railways are becoming less connected, not more. Farage will be delighted.
Virgin’s non existent ticket checks
I always find it odd that the train companies, so anxious to collect every penny from the odd passenger who transgresses the advanced ticket rules and unapologetic about making them pay all over again for a new ticket, are so lax about ticket checks.
After my recent rant (I confess I do rant sometimes) about the lack of ticket checks on several long trips on Virgin, a reader, Chris Lewis, wrote to agree. He said that Chris Gibb, the former boss of Virgin Rail, had promised to institute regular on train checks but these had not materialised. (I know from talking to Chris, an excellent and thorough manager, that he was very exercised about this but somehow could not persuade the train managers to walk down the train. I used to text him regularly when checks did not materialise and he took action.)
Chris Lewis pointed out that checks between stations in the regions are so rare that one young man he knows used Virgin trains for commuting between Warrington and Preston for two years and never got caught. The same is true, of course, of south London, where I have made several journeys recently and there is no doubt that it is treated as a free railway by many local people.
Northern angst
Meanwhile, a rather more important issue is brewing in the North. There is widespread fury among passengers about the removal of off-peak tickets for journeys in the evening peak. As Barry Doe suggests, this may not even be legal and this may be challenged, but in the meantime my friends in the North report that traffic has been very badly affected. People going into the centre of Manchester and Leeds for a night out have been deterred by the high cost of fares and this has reduced the numbers using what are contra-flow services, precisely the sort of market that train operators want to capture. As one of them put it, ‘the guys who devised this idea in the Department for Transport are clearly not economists . The effect stretches way beyond the railways, and has had an impact on the whole night time economy (which I can say from my recent three day stay in Manchester before the change was introduced is booming).
As my Northern friends point out, it is amazing that the Chancellor, a rare Tory northern MP, talks about boosting jobs in the north at the same time as allowing through this change which is so damaging to many local interests.
This change, hastily brought in by Abellio under pressure from government which wants to see a reduction in the subsidies going to Northern, will have to be written into the new franchise which is due to start in February 2016 but there is enormous pressure for the change to be scrapped. There is therefore, a real battle brewing over it and northern MPs should get together to press for the policy’s reversal by highlighting the contradictory nature of government policy.
With government endorsing the long term strategy for the North’s railways contained in the One North proposition of July 2014, Rail in the North: Stepping Stones to a rebalanced Britain highlights the opportunities for all round improvement that the imminent Invitation to Tender for the new Northern Rail franchise brings.
Prepared by Greengauge 21 for Campaign For Better Transport, the report discusses the importance of the new franchise helping to anticipate and facilitate growing city region economies and the broader transport strategy now being shaped by One North, and the investment required to grow revenue over the next decade.
The report goes on to outline the importance of Northern Rail working in synergy with a regional InterCity network, integrating rail improvements into regional and local plans, and developing a new user friendly payment system.
Download the full report here: Rail in the North — Stepping Stones to a Rebalanced Britain
London Underground's Northern line extension threatens existence of bees at Kennington Park
The extension of London Underground's Northern Line would result in the displacement of Kennington Park's Bee Urban community beekeeping and education centre, putting thousands of bees at risk.
The extension of London Underground's Northern Line would result in the displacement of Kennington Park's Bee Urban community beekeeping and education centre, putting thousands of bees at risk.
China approves $25bn worth of railway projects
The Chinese Government has reportedly approved CNY152.7bn ($24.93bn) worth of railway projects, aimed at building five railway lines in different parts of the country.
The Chinese Government has reportedly approved CNY152.7bn ($24.93bn) worth of railway projects, aimed at building five railway lines in different parts of the country.
Amadeus launches new rail booking solution in UK
Technology solutions provider Amadeus has launched its new 'Rail Display' dedicated rail booking tool in the UK, in order to make selling international rail more accessible.
Technology solutions provider Amadeus has launched its new 'Rail Display' dedicated rail booking tool in the UK, in order to make selling international rail more accessible.
Alstom begins lifecycle tests for advanced slab track technology in Russia
French train manufacturer Alstom has launched the lifecycle tests for its advanced concrete slab track technology in Russian Railways' facility in Sherbinka near Moscow.
French train manufacturer Alstom has launched the lifecycle tests for its advanced concrete slab track technology in Russian Railways' facility in Sherbinka near Moscow.
Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway (Russian Railways on YouTube.)
Christian Balzano tells about his journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway Golden Eagle Express and the culture and traditions of Russia, Mongolia and China.
BBC iPlayer
HARDtalk - Sir Nicholas Winton
Stephen Sackur talks to a man with a remarkable story which has earned him accolades and admiration around the world. Sir Nicholas Winton is now 105 years old. When he was just 29 he helped rescue more than 600 mostly Jewish children from Nazi persecution in Czechoslovakia. He hates being labelled a hero but Sir Nicholas Winton is living proof that individuals can make an extraordinary difference. What motivated him?
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Saudi Arabia: The 'Largest Rail Project In The World' Faces a 'Race Against Time'
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