>> they spent billions less than ten yrs ago improving the existing service from Euston. It's full again. Trains leave at 3 minute gaps and run at 125mph and at 11-12 coaches are as long as they can be.
Are these every-three-minutes 12-coach trains 'full'? One or two a day perhaps, the rest three-quarters empty. There's more than enough 'capacity' already.
200mph be damned. What's the hurry anyway? If you're that pressed and that damn important you can take the plane, or charter one. Or get your chauffeur to step on it in the Bentley while you sit in the back shuffling dreary accounts records and falling into a cataleptic trance.
What the country really needs is ordinary trains that don't charge a king's ransom, are clean and run on time. Like the ones in France. OK if they go quite quickly on some routes - to the channel tunnel or the northern industrial centres.
We aren't Japan or France. We just invented railways and built them all over the world. Let our followers and acolytes develop bullet trains and such. Chapeau, well done chaps!
But we don't need or require them. We ought to be grown-up enough to realise it. I hate this crap.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Mon 20 May 13 at 20:40
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