Birmingham-London High Speed Rail Link

MickeyFinns said:
London to Glasgow in five minutes is a tad ambitious, good old bbc.
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If it was less than half on hour I'd still be incredibly impressed. Obviously it wouldn't be on a standard train track, otherwise you'd have to be secured as if you were on a roller-coaster by the look of that video :D
 
Lol after years of rubbish trains only finally have we a decent service.

For all the bashing I've given to trains, I must say I'm impressed with getting from Liverpool to Ashford (Kent) in 3hrs 40mins. Beats 9hrs anyday :mad:
 
simulatorman said:
Plans, plans and more plans. Will we ever be able to afford it?
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We're going to sell Wales to pay for it. They never liked us anyway.

FOR SALE
One small country. One careful owner, some wear and tear. Slightly damp. Sheep shaggers included at no extra cost.

Will accept best offer. Small Irish province also available.
 
Waste of time and money, it would be much better to create dedicated Ro-Ro freight lines to reduce road traffic and emissions...
 
There was a Steam engine going through my normal North London station this morning. I thought to my self: '****, I knew things were bad but...'
:)
 
Yes Manchester to Glasgow is under 3 hours but not on the weekends when the business men are not working.... which is a real pity as the weekend is when i need to have it...
 
Spunj99 said:
London to Birmingham in 1 hour I heard on the radio?

Doesn't sound very fast. :confused:
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Currently the fastest is London Euston to Birmingham new street with Virgin. 1:45mins. It's pretty quick as it is as the jounrny flys by. I recon it would be a shade under an hour to get to birmingham with the new trains. But whats the point if you're going to have to pay a primium for the tickets.

Virgin trains are bloddy expensive!
 
Pointless rubbish in my opinion.

I think lots of small, even light rail, projects around cities would be better. Also new routes to places that haven't seen a train in 50 years. This could get the commuter trains off the mainlines allowing them to run more efficient services (for intercity passengers and freight). The main problem with our rail network isn't that it runs at 125-140 rather than 250mph.

Do we want to make it easier to travel long distance (>100 miles) or easier to travel short distances (<20 miles)? If I had £10bn to spend, I'd spend it on improving the sub 20 mile journeys.
 
Baboonanza said:
There was a Steam engine going through my normal North London station this morning. I thought to my self '****, I knew things were bad but...' :)
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See, if they used steam engines more, I would use trains far more... And yes, I'm fully aware of the inefficiency of them, I just like them :)
 
simulatorman said:
Plans, plans and more plans. Will we ever be able to afford it?
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They can always do what they did in Cambridge. Spend £4m on making plans for a new station and then scrap the idea because it's "too expensive".
Ascendancy said:
Am I missing something? How can something going at 250MPH get from London to Glasgow in 5 minutes :confused:
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It can't, it just shows the existing journey without having to sit there for 6 hours.
 
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