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The Prospects for European Railways Is the Second Railway Age Still Here or Yet to Begin?

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Authors: Givoni, Moshe; Holvad, Torben

Source: Built Environment, Volume 35, Number 1, 1 March 2009, pp. 5-10(6)

Publisher: Alexandrine Press

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2148/benv.35.1.5

Transport technologies seldom make a comeback, save in nostalgia trips for well-heeled tourists. Stagecoaches have not made a reappearance on the Bath Road, nor sedan chairs on the streets of London. But there is a spectacular exception: railways, written off thirty years ago as a Victorian anachronism destined to atrophy before the steady growth of motorway traffic, have suddenly become one of the basic technologies of the twenty-first century.

The reason of course is the high-speed train

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 March 2009

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