UK railways seek light at the end of the millennium tunnel

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As the rail system hurtles towards infrastructure disaster in theyear 2000, speakers at a conference last week called for speedieraction. Chiyo Robertson was there.

The recent privatisation of the railways has spawned a host of IT challenges, not least the millennium time-bomb. Work on the date-bug fix has begun, but it will take more than isolated pockets of ...

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