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in train en · ADP

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1. In progress, underway.
   • At least the cost reviews were bearing some fruit. BREL and Mechanical Engineering Department charges had been cut by £47m, the only pity being the savings had been put in train so late in the day. 2020 January 2, David Clough, “How InterCity came back from the brink”, in Rail, page 69:
   • Choiseul's dismissal threw Paris into a spin, not least because a major political crisis was already in train. 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 278: