Birmingham, Takeshi Omori realised, is not so very far from Tokyo. In 2017 his employer JR East, Japan’s biggest railway, took a 15 per cent stake in the West Midlands Railway. The Victorian tracks in Britain’s second city that cut through a dense urban landscape felt eerily familiar.
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