High Speed Rail Announced

[wsteve55]

I do take your point(s),WW, but with the planned expansion of national air services,I think speeding up the trains is uneccessary! I can get to London in 2hrs,which I think, is perfectly acceptable,and doesn't require any "landscaping" or nimby extermination !!!

[Waterways]

I do take your point(s),WW, but with the planned expansion of national air services,I think speeding up the trains is uneccessary! I can get to London in 2hrs,which I think, is perfectly acceptable,and doesn't require any "landscaping" or nimby extermination !!!

Centre to centre rail is by far the best by a mile. Pollution-wise far cleaner, in air and noise as well. HSR will harm few as it passes mainly sheep and cows. The British HSR will be the slowest in Europe.

Personally I rather have Maglev which would leave this rail version standing. Maglev can link Mcr and Liverpool airports making them as one.

If the Home Counties NIMBY's get their way in theory it would be better for the rest as London would not be connected to HSR. BUT!! If London is not on HSR I bet it is cancelled.

HSR rail from Liverpool-Mcr-Leeds-Newcastle-Edinburgh would greatly assist those cities.

[pablo42]

Nice one WW. Whatever happened to Maglev. I remember it on Tomorrows World years ago, yet there seems no progress except that small one in Germany.