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Intercity trains upgrade delayed (BBC News)

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Old 26th February 2010, 12:10
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Intercity trains upgrade delayed (BBC News)

Plans to replace the ageing fleet of intercity trains have been postponed after running into difficulties, the transport secretary says.

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Old 26th February 2010, 19:53
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Long live the High Speed Train;- the world's greatest stop-gap measure?

These days we can't even organise a long-term solution, it seems, never mind create a short-term one that works so well.
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Old 26th February 2010, 21:20
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This could have been forecast 10 years ago. This Government couldn't plan a party in a brewery. The HST's will be kept rolling until there is a disaster caused by their age and then the DfT will start running round like headless chickens when they are compulsarely retired from service with no replacement.
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