Relates to railroads, street railways, subways, streetcars, and fares; includes bills regulating automobile operation and driving.
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There are some schemes to provide subsidies for children and retired people to use railways and buses.
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Furthermore, vertical separation also offered a solution to channel politically-required subsidies into the railways via franchising.
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The coming of the railways eased this somewhat.
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The aim is to privatise electricity generation and supply, telecommunications, water and sewerage, railways and harbours.
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The catastrophic and the spectacular, unearthed in the railway's construction, have become a feature of its ongoing progress.
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Birds, butterflies, and flowers came to dominate definitives and development projects such as railways and dams reappeared on commemoratives.
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Outside this area the historical landscape becomes fragmented by an expanding network of railways and motorways.
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The railways remain a potent signifier of national unification in the early twenty-first century.
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The battle against inflation gave added momentum to this agenda, which was extended to include trucking, railways, and financial institutions.
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However, in subsequent years, both governments became increasingly involved in debating future regulatory options of the railways, in particular with regard to organisational structure.
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First, while both states 'privatised' their railways, they did so in different ways.
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From the viewpoint of the early 2000s, no other sector seems as appropriate for the study of failure than the railways.
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First, the growth in services such as running water and railways is well documented throughout the book.
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Whilst people moved further as a result of the railways, the fraction moving barely changed, nor did the type of destination (rural/town/urban).
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Collocationswithrailway
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abandoned railway
There was a railway line snaking over empty fields on which reposed abandoned railway trucks through which the bindweed grew profusely.
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central railway
Four great groups will ultimately form the central railway systems of this country, and between them they own thirty undertakings.
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electric railway
I understand that it was the firstelectricrailwayin the world.
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