Peter Hendy has successfully used economic growth to justify excess investment in regulated buses and railways, using one-offs such as the Olympics or the Millennium Dome or as a byproduct of longer-distance schemes, eg the Channel tunnel rail link.
In 1997, Anglia Railways used it as an advertising jingle, to plug a special deal on trains from London to Norwich: "I saw the best minds of my generation at Liverpool Street Station... .. (the Ginsberg estate politely put a stop to it).
Party leaders have taken to using inverted commas around the word "investment" when Democrats apply it to infrastructure.Roads, bridges and railways used to be neutral ground on which the parties could come together to support the country's growth.
Carriages would operate on both tram tracks and existing railways using tram-train technology from Manchester Piccadilly to Marple via Stockport.
These "coal railways" used horse traction (mostly) and short cast iron rails on stone block sleepers.
We considered the hypothesis that there is an increased risk of leukaemia and NHL in children with greater residential exposure to railways, using a ward-based data set for England and Wales that incorporated the best available estimates of the population at risk and adjusted for demographic factors, including a measure of population mixing.
The Netherlands Railway uses software to calculate exactly how many trains are needed to carry the system's 1 million passengers along 1,700 miles of track.
Each day in Mumbai, about 11 million people travel by public transport, with 48 percent of all commuters using the railways, 44 percent using buses and 8 percent using private cars, according to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority.
The station was built in 1882 by the North Eastern Railway using designs by its chief architect, William Bell.
The tunnel was completed in 1843 but was used only for pedestrian traffic until the 1860s, when it was converted to railway use.
