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...The parent company of Mexican rail company Ferromex, Grupo México, declined to comment....
...More than £4bn of improvements to other parts of the UK’s railway system have already been axed because of a governmental decision to focus spending on the high-speed railway line....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...“He has always been rabidly anti-HS2,” said one senior railway industry official....
...The party will also pledge to clamp down on water companies polluting the sea, rivers and lakes by expanding the powers of industry regulator Ofwat....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...Berkshire’s BNSF Railway, which runs from California to Illinois, reported a decline in shipping revenues and said consumer and industry demand had fallen....
...The network prides itself on being the world’s oldest underground railway and one of its largest....
...It was emblematic of what Boris Johnson called the levelling up agenda....
...He then scrapped the northern section of the HS2 railway to Manchester. Starmer’s charm offensive appears to be winning business support from the Conservatives....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...“If the proposition is Euston to Birmingham and no more, this has to be judged as a completely different railway with a different passenger market, train frequencies and services.”...
...Former Tory chancellor George Osborne, a supporter of HS2, said on his podcast recently that new railways could not be conjured up overnight....
...The organisation was set up by a former adviser to Boris Johnson on energy and the environment....
...The St Mary’s site includes historic buildings such as converted stables, once used by the nearby Great Western Railway....
...The CrackBerry story Matt Johnson’s new film BlackBerry shows that a rise and fall is more gripping, and more morally provoking, than pure success, the New Yorker reports....
...Andrew Gilligan, who was transport adviser to Boris Johnson when the then-prime minister axed the eastern leg, has argued the ballooning budget meant HS2 costs more to build than the value of the benefits...
...Unions have called for the railways to be completely nationalised and run by the governments, and have long criticised the involvement of private train operating companies....
...The decision to boost local-level collaboration comes a year after a top-down strategic plan for an “Oxford-Cambridge Arc” was shelved by Boris Johnson in order to prioritise “levelling up” spending in the...
...from England’s scaled-back and delayed high-speed railway....
...In September, the White House brokered a pay deal that was supported by union leaders and the railway companies but rejected by the workers in four out of twelve of the affected unions, risking a paralysing...
...Banks, insurers, energy companies, railways, universities: theoretically autonomous in many countries may end up being protected in practice....
...The American Petroleum Institute, the country’s main oil lobby group, said railways informed energy companies last week that hazardous materials shipments would be curtailed to clear tracks ahead of a potential...
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