David Crane, Special Advisor to the Governor and Chair, High Speed Rail Commission, California.

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Beijing News on Monday quoted people from the China Railway No. 3 Engineering Group as saying that the pits were dug to make room for a giant crane to lift away the rest of the carriages that remain on the overhead rail tracks.

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