41.   Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad urged Burma on Tuesday to join a proposed trans-Asian railway network that would stretch from Singapore to China.

42.   Members of parliament were likely to grill the minister on exactly who was in charge of the railway network.

43.   Much of this is attributable to government-inspired development and extension of the high-speed TGV railway network.

44.   On Friday, drivers employed by the national Renfe railway network are due to strike and severely disrupt traffic before the New Year weekend.

45.   One last franchise, for the Scottish railway network, ScotRail, remains to be decided.

46.   On trade, he said France was particularly keen to further develop European infrastructure projects such as the TGV high-speed railway network.

47.   Previously it was the resoponsibility of British Rail, which split from the track authority last April in preparation for the planned privatisation of the railway network.

48.   Railtrack is the single largest element in the newly fragmented British railway network and a key to the success or failure of the privatisation programme.

49.   Russian forces control residential areas, and several important administrative buildings, as well as the main railway station and railway network, the statement said.

50.   Services were however running almost normally in the north and east of the country, and on the whole of the TGV high-speed railway network, officials said.