Cannydc wrote:None of that matters, we are absolutely loaded, austerity is over and we are blowing £100 Billion on a 20 minute cut in journey time London - Birmingham.
Rejoice !!!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/20 ... -minister/
HS2 will carry up to 26,000 people per hour,[16] with anticipated annual passenger numbers of 85 million.[132] The line will be used intensively with 15 trains per hour travelling to and from Euston. As all trains will be travelling at the same speed, capacity is increased as faster trains have no need to reduce speed for slower trains. The line is only for high speed passenger trains eliminating slow freight and commuter trains. Moving high speed trains off the West Coast Main Line, East Coast Main Line and Midland Main Line will release capacity for slower commuter trains. Andrew McNaughton, Chief Technical Director, said, “Basically, as a dedicated passenger railway, we can carry more people per hour than two motorways. It’s phenomenal capacity. It pretty much triples the number of seats long-distance to the North of England.”[133]
Cannydc wrote:" The line will be used intensively with 15 trains per hour travelling to and from Euston. As all trains will be travelling at the same speed, capacity is increased as faster trains have no need to reduce speed for slower trains. "
Good to see the complete elimination of leaves on the line, wrong kind of snow, signal failure, strikes, staff shortages and timetable nightmares.
Not that anyone with any sense will believe such blatant propaganda. Oh, wait......
jra wrote:Cannydc wrote:" The line will be used intensively with 15 trains per hour travelling to and from Euston. As all trains will be travelling at the same speed, capacity is increased as faster trains have no need to reduce speed for slower trains. "
Good to see the complete elimination of leaves on the line, wrong kind of snow, signal failure, strikes, staff shortages and timetable nightmares.
Not that anyone with any sense will believe such blatant propaganda. Oh, wait......
Those things may happen on any railway line, so what's your point.
Rolluplostinspace wrote:It won't get built.
Cannydc wrote:jra wrote:Cannydc wrote:" The line will be used intensively with 15 trains per hour travelling to and from Euston. As all trains will be travelling at the same speed, capacity is increased as faster trains have no need to reduce speed for slower trains. "
Good to see the complete elimination of leaves on the line, wrong kind of snow, signal failure, strikes, staff shortages and timetable nightmares.
Not that anyone with any sense will believe such blatant propaganda. Oh, wait......
Those things may happen on any railway line, so what's your point.
My point is that believing the shysters who run our railways, and the shysters (both in business and politics) who will make millions from this white elephant takes a leap of faith of enormous proportions. Time to face facts - they never deliver, but there's always an excuse.
Cannydc wrote:LOLOL
You'll be telling us next that Vodaphone 'getting off' a £6bn tax bill in 2010 was part of an international agreement.
Hilarious.
Guest wrote:When a member of the Tory Johnson family put's their foot in their mouth it's usually to utter something deplorable.
Boris's dad, Stanley Johnson continued the family tradition yesterday when asked how his Idol, Margaret Thatcher, would have handled the Irish border question which is dogging Theresa May's Brexit 'strategy'.
"She would have said look, if the Irish want to shoot each other, they will shoot each other whether there's a hard border or whether there's a soft border... that's something the Irish will do".
It took George Galloway to point out that, "it's actually Britain that shot most Irish people".
Guest wrote:Guest wrote:When a member of the Tory Johnson family put's their foot in their mouth it's usually to utter something deplorable.
Boris's dad, Stanley Johnson continued the family tradition yesterday when asked how his Idol, Margaret Thatcher, would have handled the Irish border question which is dogging Theresa May's Brexit 'strategy'.
"She would have said look, if the Irish want to shoot each other, they will shoot each other whether there's a hard border or whether there's a soft border... that's something the Irish will do".
It took George Galloway to point out that, "it's actually Britain that shot most Irish people".
If you hate Britain so much why do you live here you idiot?
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