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Defining "high-speed rail" as the regular operation on new purpose-built track of trains running at speeds of 250 km/h or more, the first high-speed (and, so far, only) line in England is the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (opened in full in November 2007) on which trains operate at up to 300 km/h.

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