Thread: Tories 20BN railway to replace Heathrow expansion (St Pancras isHeathrow T6, again)
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Old October 12th 08, 11:18 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Tories 20BN railway to replace Heathrow expansion (St Pancras is Heathrow T6, again)
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:51:42 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

The main rail flows from London to Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester
are much shorter than Paris-Marseilles (410 miles) and Madrid -
Barcelona (370 miles). Therefore you could argue that a new 140mph
railway would suffice.

My current view would be that the existing 125mph (or even 110mph)
railway is perfectly sufficient, and that the millions being talked
about for a HSL would be better spent on a massive new stock build and
platform lengthening project.

Neil

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