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UK rail lines blocked by unexpected Windows dialog box

Mage Silver badge

Re: trains run on railway tracks

Historically partly to give a monopoly. If people had built better roads for the steam engine pulling a "train of wagons", anyone could have used them.

"Trains" that don't use rails/tracks do exist.

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