The expectation of increased spending on roads and railways has helped to lift raw-material prices.
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Indian Railways operates 9, 000 passenger trains and carries some 18 million passengers every day.
The money will go towards new roads, railways, power stations and other large-scale projects.
But away from these current hostilities, politics and the railways have actually long been brothers.
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In a major development, Congress legislated control of the passenger railways and gave it to Amtrak.
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They are there, thousands of new apartments, dozens of new bridges, roads, railways, schools.
But competition from the railways damaged trade and the waterway gradually fell into disrepair.
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We can put these workers back to work by rebuilding our roads and bridges and railways.
The Indian Railways has performed poorly on her watch and its finances have deteriorated.
We're doubling our capacity in renewable energy and rebuilding schools and laboratories, railways, and highways.
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The public transport data features railways, tram and bus lines, stops, stations and access points.
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So too is the transcontinental development of roads, railways and pipelines, laid at a dizzying pace.
This was because infrastructure had been affected - such as roads, railways and streets, he said.
China's state-owned enterprises have won contracts to build railways, houses and power stations in the country.
The Railways are targeting budget and aspiring airline travellers, high value rail passengers and car owners.
After falling into disuse with the coming of the railways, it closed in the early 1870s.
The railways are seeking tax breaks and other subsidies to reduce the cost of complying.
But Britain's existing railways were largely built by private companies, whose backers eventually lost their shirts.
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These included incremental upgrades to the railways and an expansion of the road network.
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Sir Alastair argues that significant improvements on the railways are probably 15 years away.
The first railways couldn't rival canals on cost or reliability, let alone lobbying power.
Indian Railways own and manage a number of lines, including the 53-mile long Darjeeling Himalaya Railway.
Instead, the government is still pumping money into networks of motorways and high-speed railways.
"Clearly there has been a long scale under-investment in the railways in Northern Ireland, " he said.
Pawan Kumar Bansal, India's federal railways minister, visited the site of the accident Monday.
But, as Japan has shown, and Europe is starting to, high-speed railways can be profitable.
Although a growing number of Americans are travelling by train, the railways are old.
On the railways, the committee proposed financial incentives for companies to keep passengers better informed.
One way to improve things would be to spend railways' existing cash more rationally.
But it will horrify ministers, who are already keenly aware of the railways' ballooning costs.
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