London Banter - View Single Post

Richard Thomas · October 14th 04, 11:29 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

(Alex Terrell) wrote in message . com...
"Angus Bryant" wrote in message ...
From the Independent:
snippity snip
The specialised 186mph trains are due to start running from stations in Kent
to London along the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), but ministers are still
arguing over which rolling stock to order.

Over engineered trains again. Would it not be eaiser to use the line
at 160mph and add 5 minutes to the London Paris journey time?

I thought the CTRL DS trains were only supposed to be running at
140mph?

Would it not be cheaper to upgrade the max 100 miles of track to the
overhead wires system that's used on the CTRL? Then the trains
wouldn't have to be so versatile...