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Britain has been the canvas for some of the oldest, most intricate and ambitious transport infrastructures in the world.
As Britain grew its formidable industrial tradition, Francis Egerton and his team built and inspired a grand canal system that would bear the weight of trade in the way that a horse and cart on basic roads simply couldn’t manage.
But it wasn’t just goods that needed to be moved about. Today the London Underground carries people on over 2.5m journeys a day on a network that was put together 150 years ago. Meanwhile Brunel’s Great Western Railway remains in good health between London and Bristol.
Modern times have seen some astonishing feats in the building of road infrastructure. One hundred years ago few could realistically have envisaged the Channel Tunnel (although some did). Yet annually seven million people journey through it.
And talking of ambitious, Heathrow Airport's Terminal Five will make it host to 90m people a year.
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