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"ref": "2024 March 20, “Network News: Freight still needs a level playing field, MPs hear from Rail Partners”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 11",
"text": "Although the government has significantly reduced its UK growth targets to 75% by 2050 from the heady heights of trebling it in ten years at the beginning of privatisation, the rail freight industry is calling on all politicians to create a level playing field with road haulage.",
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"sense": "a situation which offers no advantage to any particular person or side",
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"sense": "a situation which offers no advantage to any particular person or side",
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