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« on: December 18, 2015, 17:50:05 »
Currently trending on the BBC» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page) news web site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35061511
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« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2015, 18:48:30 »
..and from the country that invented the railway and developed pioneering engineering like the HST▸ (High Speed Train (Inter City class 43 125 units)) & APT▸ (Advanced Passenger Train), ... we don't build them any more and have to buy-in

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« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2015, 19:00:43 »
Trains are still built or assembled in the UK▸ (United Kingdom). To say nothing of the many, many British designed and built components that go into a modern train.
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