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The world's major train-building nations (France, Canada and Japan) are finding there's a quick route to winning global influence while helping their own economies: send in your sleekest, sexiest trains. Throughout this issue we spend time on the rails exploring everything from the potential of a 'slow' revolution in intercity rail travel to how to look neat on the Nozomi to Fukuoka.
Photographer: David Sykes Writer: Andrew Mueller
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