At the same time private investment has helped Brazil's railway network to expand rapidly.
That's money that could be used to invest in the railway network, it wouldn't be used.
Dr Beeching said half the railway network was not carrying sufficient traffic to cover its maintenance costs.
The assembly is likely to decide in the autumn what sort of railway network it can afford.
Reported crime on the Southern Railway network fell last year by 7.2%, according to British Transport Police.
China's own high-speed railway network has been lauded as a symbol of this country's far-sighted infrastructure investment policy.
There are plans to renovate (and clear landmines from) an extensive railway network that reaches Congo and Zambia.
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Mr Gallop said his company was looking at how it could make the railway network "more resilient to flooding".
The construction of a national railway network meant a national railway timetable and the arrival of a countrywide time zone.
Carriers will hope that those suggesting China may run out of money before the railway network's completion prove prescient.
Network Rail said its aim was to cut the cost of running and maintaining the railway network in the east.
The committee have arecommended that the assembly government shoudl continue to lobby for the electrification of the railway network serving Wales.
London's subway, the world's first underground railway network, first opened in 1863.
They also bought a stake in Fepasa, Sao Paulo's railway network, which was privatised last year, and whose track is now being improved.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the "good news" was that the money would help to sustain investment in the railway network.
But some citizens' groups are still not satisfied - they say public transport should be beefed up and the city's thriving railway network extended.
According to the government HS2 will help deliver increased capacity on the railway network as well as jobs and growth in the UK economy.
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Investment in railways, especially in the ambitious high-speed railway network, had previously stalled following a deadly accident and a high-profile corruption scandal two years ago.
Polish plans call for 1, 200km of new motorways to be built in the next six years, and for the railway network to triple in length.
The game has been played there for nearly 150 years, taken to South America by British immigrants, largely working on the creation of a railway network.
The railway currently runs for nine miles from Sheffield Park to Kingscote but the two mile northern extension will join it up with the national railway network.
That is what happened with Japan National Railways Settlement Corporation, a company set up ten years ago to assume the massive debts of the privatised railway network.
The railway currently runs for nine miles from Sheffield Park to Kingscote but the two-mile northern extension will join it up with the national railway network at East Grinstead.
The Bluebell Railway currently runs for nine miles from Sheffield Park to Kingscote but the extension will join it up with the national railway network and potentially attract more visitors.
David Simpson, route managing director for Network Rail Scotland, said it was delighted to have reached an agreement to bring Midlothian and the central Borders "back into the railway network".
And it would also mean paralysis of the system because it would take a few years to put it in place and the railway network would simply get worse rather than better.
The burgeoning industrial revolution and a rapidly expanding railway network during the 19th century put thousands of folk within reach of the canals, ponds and flooded quarry pits that were by-products of industry.
The bond quota issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic-planning body, will be used to help the ministry finance the maintenance and construction of a rapidly expanding railway network.
But that's, you know, two, three years away, what I want to do is to get the industry now to focus on a simple job which is to provide a railway network which is safe, which runs on time and which is comfortable for the travelling public.
"We felt that a person who could think of doing this 27 years ago obviously had tremendous faith in the reliability of the Indian railway network and we felt that we needed to acknowledge that and respond to it adequately, " said Shanti Narain, a member of the Indian railway board.
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