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China has built the world's biggest high-speed rail network in record time, with its first trains beginning to run less than five years ago.

However, he said the railway would form the first leg of a planned "trans-Guinea rail network" .

Supporters of a high-speed rail link to the north said the semi-final weekend highlighted the limited capacity of the current rail network.

It even invested in Japanese-style bullet trains, rolling out a rail network admired around the globe.

Chinese officials say the current high-speed rail network is only the beginning.

And a greater proportion of the population is already connected to the road and rail network than elsewhere in Europe.

The egalitarian nature of Japanese society and the country's extensive, reliable rail network means nearly everyone uses public transport.

With a rapidly expanding high-speed rail network, it remains to be seen whether people will rent cars or take trains instead, says Mr Russo.

Not to be outdone, Saudi Arabia plans to spend $15 billion to increase the size of its rail network nearly five-fold.

The data also highlights how the UK government's plans to electrify parts of the rail network could cut emissions.

Karachi is probably the biggest city in the world without a rail network of any kind, and the buses are overloaded.

In handing yourself over to the rail network, you offload all responsibility for your short-term future.

The top spending priority was the Tube, followed by the rail network and roads.

Yet the rapid build-out of the rail network has been accompanied by reports of shoddy construction.

Russia has granted access to the rail network; but it dates from tsarist times, and is showing its age.

Its high-speed rail network has been spinning a web from Paris to the corners of the French hexagon since the mid-1970s.

The freight side of the US rail network has recently undergone a revival after decades of seemingly unstoppable decline.

Mr Wen earlier promised to take steps to improve safety on the high-speed rail network - one of the government's flagship projects.

Japan, which operates the world's busiest high-speed rail network with its Shinkansen trains, carries about 18 percent.

The NDRC also said Wednesday that thermal coal for use in electricity generation should have priority access to the rail network.

China has plans to extend its high speed rail network to northern Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore.

The Beijing-Tianjin inter-city passenger line is also believed to be the pilot project of a massive high-speed rail network in China.

The planning and research of the intercity rail network of Yangtze River Delta is arousing great attention.

This paper has also carried on the research that the rail network scheme of passengers test through TRANSCAD system.

Rail network should cover on the tank to prevent the fish leaping out of or infringement by birds, animals.

That is using up a lot of diesel (on which the trains run) and clogging up the rail network.

Thanks to rapid investment, China's high-speed rail network is already more extensive than the rest of the world's combined.

The problem is in the speed of investment now, as China attempts to catch up by building the world's largest high-speed rail network.

Lowering the speed limit for China's showcase high-speed rail network signals a rethink of the country's ambitious plans.

Privatisation is still on the government's agenda, but the rail network, considered a natural monopoly, will stay in state hands.

With its high-speed rail network, now the longest in the world, the Chinese are providing efficient intercity links into downtowns.

The Asian Development Bank recently agreed to extend a second $42m loan for the $141m reconstruction of Cambodia's rail network.

The latest travel peak has put considerable pressure on the rail network, which has just recovered from snow storms .

The system offers a vast improvement over the aging, traditional rail network, which was known for being filthy and overcrowded.

There is no known master plan for the high-speed rail network China wants to build in Southeast Asia.

'But as far as I know, lighting rods or surge protectors are not installed on the high-speed rail network's power distribution pylons. '

China's high-speed rail network, built in less than a decade, is the world's longest.

The Highways Department aims at providing an efficient road and rail network for the movement of people and goods .

Miners are working overtime and coal has been given priority to speed through the rail network.

The movement against the 26km railway, which will connect with China's high-speed rail network, was youth-led.

Germany's high-speed rail network has put paid to short-haul flights between several cities.

Cambodia's rail network collapsed over decades of war, neglect and vandalism.

Mozambique's infrastructure was wrecked by civil war, sponsored by apartheid South Africa, while the rail network has fared little better.

A new pan-Arab rail network could connect Tripoli to Cairo to Amman to Baghdad, and Damascus to Dubai.

Commuters on Melbourne's rail network face further delays this morning, following the wild weather that wreaked havoc yesterday.

China's high-speed rail network is the envy of many countries.

By the end of next year it'll have a high-speed rail network, bigger than the rest of the world put together.

The plan includes infrastructure projects, such as an expansion of the rail network.

bombs strike the commuter rail network in Spain's capital, Madrid.

And earlier this year, China promised to invest a further $10bn in Argentina's rail network.

Europe's rail network is still a fabulous way to get around.

Already China has promised to invest a further $10bn in Argentina's rail network.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. and Siemens AG, for example, worked with Chinese partners to help build China's high-speed rail network.

The most obvious weakness is the country's rail network, whose total length has barely grown in the past five years.

The rail network will all too plainly make a loss.

Only Delhi can boast an extensive metro-rail network.

Pan-Asia Rail Network will help everybody grow.

Russia is developing a high-speed rail network ahead of the FIFA World Cup in 2018.

Since 1994, Shanghai has been developing its urban rail network from scratch.

The government embarked on a massive spending drive five years ago to build the world's largest high-speed rail network in record time.

Eiji Hosoya is the man who masterminded the massive privatization of Japan's sprawling national rail network 23 years ago.

By 2020, it said, China plans to expand the overall high-speed rail network to 16, 000 kilometers.

China has the world's biggest high-speed rail network, reaching 8, 358 kilometres at the end of 2010.

China's high-speed rail network now stretches over 7, 431 km.

We can't build a high-speed rail network in the United States for $8bn.

China is already well-serviced by a 7, 000 km high-speed rail network, which will increase to 16, 000 by 2020.

China now has the world's largest high speed rail network and one of only two commercial maglev lines in the world (the other is in Japan).

India's heavily used rail network is one of the world's largest, with some 9, 000 passenger trains carrying 18 million people every day.

Develop the rail network as the backbone of public transport in Hong Kong.

It warns that Hong Kong could be hurt without a dedicated link to China's high-speed national rail network.

west rail will link up hong kong s existing railway systems , forming an integrated rail network.

expansion of the rail network to support and encourage sustainable economic development, regional development and national defence;

Increasing Mongolia's economic activity, including exports, by improving the efficiency and capacity of the country's rail network;

Inspiration of EU Rail Financing-investment System to Yangzi River Delta Rail Network

A Study on Evaluation and Decision Method Applied on Urban Rail Network Planning

Several factories shut during a three-year ordering hiatus when the rail network was ineptly privatised in the 1990s;

China is investing billions of dollars into its rail network

Study on evaluation index system of rail network in metropolitan circle

The Position of Wenzhou City in the Regional Rail Network

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They are rolling out a high-speed rail network in very short order, so that will cut the demand for domestic flights in China;

(Russia also has a 50 per cent stake in the Mongolian rail network. )

a diagram of rail network