At the meeting to discuss the Society's future, " facts were presented showing that since the 1970s, the Society had seriously underspent in maintenance on track infrastructure ", which was now a problem to be overcome before the trains could run again.
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Despite the shaky state of Britain's railways, the Department for Transport underspent by some 350 million pounds ( dlrs 515 million ), or 5.5 percent, on its capital budget last year, according to figures released Wednesday by Transport Secretary Stephen Byers.
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By the project's conclusion in 2013, all the money had been spent except for half a million dollars earmarked for education about the Chinese head tax was left unspent when one Chinese community group failed to file the required paperwork while others underspent; that money was clawed back into government revenue.
