On 29/01/2010 13:46, Recliner wrote:
"Paul wrote in message

The Great Leader has announced plans for a massive increase in the
number of high speed passenger trains in the USA.

There's more about it here

http://us-state-policy.suite101.com/...railroad_plans

And if you look at it the accompanying picture is of a London Tube
train on what may be, by the colour of the old tiling, on the
Bakerloo line.

I think it's actually a Jubilee Line train.


Which proves if nothing else that their journalists are no better at
appropriate pictures than ours are

Though it looks like some kind of advert-supported self-publishing sort
of thing, rather than "conventional" media(?).

Of course, there's a good chance that a US journalist has never actually
travelled on a train, which is less likely with a London-based BBC
journo.

Presumably it's a bit hard to illustrate a US high speed train, unless
you can snap an Acela on right little bit of track.

USD8bn spread over loads of projects won't buy much per project, so
there must be a long way to go. And beware of the US use of "high speed"
- like "light rail", it might not be quite what Europeans think.


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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK