Sentence examples for fast railways from inspiring English sources

Mr Berlusconi also promised to get going with a list of infrastructure projects such as motorways, fast railways and anti-flood devices.

The Labour Party had been scathing about the plan to build a new, fast railway line between London, Leeds and Manchester, beginning in 2017.

Its proximity to the Lancashire industrial towns and the introduction of fast railway services brought about Blackpool's rapid 19th-century growth.

He added: "Of course it makes sense, if we're going to build a new railway line, for it to be a fast railway line, to reduce travel times from north to south.

If you were planning a fast railway going east from Waterloo to Dover, you wouldn't begin by twisting more than two miles westward from Waterloo to Stewart's Lane and back.

In September Theresa Villiers, the Tory shadow transport secretary, claimed that a fast railway connecting London with Leeds by way of Birmingham and Manchester could obviate the need for the unpopular and ungreen third runway planned for Heathrow airport.Now an even more surprising change of heart has occurred within the Labour government.

In order not to lose such advantage during terminal operations, it will be necessary to enable (i) fast access, (ii) fast railway operations, (iii) short transhipment times.

The dream promoted was of a modern home in beautiful countryside with a fast railway service to central London.

From 2017, Crossrail line 1 is expected to create a fast railway service across London, from east to west, with a major interchange at Whitechapel.

That is paying for new roads, faster railways and lavish training programmes.

New highways and faster railways will erode painful memories of squalid trains and bumpy roads.