If the Polar Arrow or some other fast train went by slowly, Fyodorov could sometimes make out the sound of the radio or a portable gramophone.

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"I was fast asleep this morning and it sounded like a train running around the outside of the house, " he said.

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He said there had been a cut in the number of deaths, train use had increased and capital investment was growing fast.

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The Heathrow Express rail service offers train journeys to Heathrow airport, but the British rail network is not as integrated nor as fast as its continental brethren.

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