Sentence examples for faster rail from inspiring English sources

All have been closed down due to cheaper and faster rail travel.

As the consultants noted crisply, alternatives to high-speed rail "do not involve committing some £18bn now to construct a new line that will not be available for use until 2025 on the strength of some very uncertain demand forecasts, to achieve benefits from faster rail journey times that have dubious economic value, most of which will not materialise for 30 or 40 years into the future".

Berry, a Camden councillor who is also running for a seat on the London Assembly, argues that the small airport in the east of the capital next to the Royal Docks in Newham contributes precious little to UK air transport capacity and will become still less important once Crossrail opens, providing a faster rail link between Heathrow and Canary Wharf, which City Airport is closer to.

Plans for a faster rail route between East Lancashire and Manchester have moved a step closer.

Work is starting on a £2.3m railway station redevelopment, as part of plans to reinstate a faster rail route between East Lancashire and Manchester.

The report says a metro network, combining electrified heavy rail and light rail systems, would be boosted by faster rail links to London and Heathrow - should the UK government give the go-ahead to electrification of the line into Wales.

The ultra-fast rail line that connects Shanghai with its airport works on just this principle.

The airport has its own station, with a fast rail connection to the capital.

There's now a direct fast rail link between Lisbon, right, and Faro.

Why is shaving minutes off already fast rail connections so important?

This earmarks a lump sum of $8 billion, plus $1 billion a year, to help construct fast rail corridors around America (see map).