Britain has two cultural icons on a collision course: Twice a day, on average, high-profile vehicles such as double-decker buses smash into the country's ubiquitous low-hanging railroad bridges. Each collision interrupts train service while engineers determine whether the bridge is still sturdy. It's a time-consuming process that annoys passengers and costs Railtrack, the nation's rail authority, the equivalent of about $8 million a year.

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