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    Editor’s Comment

    Aug 05, 2019 4 minutes
    CHRIS MILNER, Editor

    Will the new Westminster team deliver rail improvements sooner, later or not at all?

    It is too early to predict whether Boris Johnson as the new Prime Minister and Grant Shapps as Transpor t Secretar y will be good or bad news for Britain’s railways. Unfortunately, railways and politics have become very tangled – there’s no escaping that fact.

    Leaving aside the more pressing aspect of the withdrawal from the European Union by October 31, the in-tray of Mr Shapps has a number of items demanding his attention.

    With new ministers in vir tually all depar tments, there will

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