The 100-year-old railway Mexico hopes will rival the Panama Canal

The route will run across Mexico's narrowest point, connecting the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean

A man walks along the train track that is part of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
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The Mexican government is reviving a century-old railway line between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, in the hope that the route can one day rival the Panama Canal. 

The restoration is part of a "bold bid to steal container traffic" away from the waterway, said the Financial Times

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 Sorcha Bradley is a writer at The Week and a regular on “The Week Unwrapped” podcast. She worked at The Week magazine for a year and a half before taking up her current role with the digital team, where she mostly covers UK current affairs and politics. Before joining The Week, Sorcha worked at slow-news start-up Tortoise Media. She has also written for Sky News, The Sunday Times, the London Evening Standard and Grazia magazine, among other publications. She has a master’s in newspaper journalism from City, University of London, where she specialised in political journalism.