] (Arthur Figgis) wrote in message ...
Why re-invent the wheel, and introduce an incompatible new system at
huge expense? Internationally 25kV 50 Hz is effectively standard
nowadays, the equipment is available off the shelf (and once we shoot
all the Daily Mail readers, sorry, I mean sort out the important
political issues, we might even be able to get standard foreign trains
running through to Britain on it).

They'll only be able to run on the CTRL, they'd be too big for other lines.
I can't understand why we have such a restricted loading gauge in this
country, I mean we had broad gauge on the GWR for heavens sake, surely the
loading gauge of that line if nothing else must have been built big enough for
european trains?

B2003