The government is proposing a major overhaul of rail operations as it pushes to migrate passengers and freight from road to rail over the next 30 years.

Chief among the changes is the introduction of wider, "standard-gauge" tracks across most of the national rail network to replace the narrow-gauge tracks now in use...

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