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Has UK rail's Elizabeth line shown what rail investment can achieve?

4 months ago (theguardian.com)

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bell-cot  4 months ago

An ever-so-warm and upbeat article. (Which is a Guardian specialty.)

But if you dig a click deeper, you'll see that the one rail line, 73km long, took nearly 15 years and £20bn to build.

If that's what "success" looks like...then don't expect to get much of it anytime soon.

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