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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

The most scenic train networks in the UK, as chosen by Simon Calder

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Those of us who depend on trains to travel around Britain are not having the best of decades.

The government’s decision to tear up plans for the most critical parts of HS2 will be seen for many years to come as an act of criminal damage to the nation’s infrastructure – and the latest blow to confidence in a Victorian network required to try to deliver a 21st-century experience.

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