Sentence examples for rail spending from inspiring English sources

New rail spending amounts to £1.4bn in total.

Republicans in Congress have since blocked the Obama administration's requests for more rail spending.

Come fair economy or foul, though, every government seizes on rail spending as a way to deliver growth.

Rail spending was cut by £57m or 7% to £751m but capital spending on trunk roads and motorways went up by £126m overall.

This week's announcements on rail spending is a welcome step, but remains just one stepping stone towards the economic recovery the north is crying out for.

All this is necessary, say rail bosses, to manage demand and to make up for decades of under-investment.The big question is what will happen after 2009, when the government's plans for rail spending come to an end.

Rail spend per head is just £35 in the south west, compared with an average of £113 across England as a whole.

Whacked fact Since Thailand's Manus Boonjumnong, who will attempt to retain his gold medal today, won the light-welterweight title in Athens he has gone off the rails, spent $600,000 on gambling and alcohol, been dumped by his pregnant wife, given up boxing for two years and become a monk.

The more time "Off the Rails" spends with McCollum, the less the usual journalistic descriptions like "joyriding" or "hijacking" seem to fit his activities.

Network Rail is spending £350m on expanding and electrifying part of the Great Western main line over the next five years.

More than 100 drivers spent a second night stranded on the A57 in South Yorkshire overnight while 300 rail passengers spent the night on a train at Three Bridges station in West Sussex after a series of line failures stalled three trains.