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1 October 10, 2014
The slow progress of high speed trains
The opening of the first high speed line, the Japanese Shinkansen, ushered in a new era...

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Of course, as I wrote, much of what our Victorian forebears did was horribly exploitative and caused much misery. But that is another argument totally twitter.com/lichfiel…
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So Gareth you wrote that 'Britain's railways only really exist as a legacy of slavey' But now you deny having written that? Why don't you just accept you overegged your argument? ,dropbox.com/s/e16ojz…
About 3 hours ago
RT @lichfieldbaker @christianwolmar @GarethDennis The post says that the slave-owner compensation contributed between 0.1 and 1.0 million to the railways. My gut feeling is it is closer to the former. Whether or not this is significant in comparison to the 30 million capital level by 1840 is a value judgement for others
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