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October 16th - New trains for old on Chiltern Railways, linking London Marylebone with Banbury and Birmingham

from Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast

On a shiny 21st-century train with just one careful previous owner, I am talking to Richard Allan – managing director of Chiltern Railways – about new rolling stock for a network that currently relies on trains nearly half a century old.This podcast is free, as is Independent Travel's weekly newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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