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Roger Ford reckons a pendolino running at 140 mph on HS2 would save 15 minutes to Handsacre and could then tilt onwards on the WCML so not loosing any time.
If it is immediately south of Peterborough and before Huntingdon that stretch is always a bit wobbly as the ground is unstable. Speed is also restricted for a few miles presumably for this reason ?
mostly those that live in the north near manchester and whilst this has been argued many times on here birmingham is way larger than manchester who only achieves its population and size by counting all surrounding towns and conurbations. If Birmingham did the same and counted Dudley , Walsall...
did anyone every think otherwise ? Any government can pass a law saying no diesels after 2040 but then to totally ignore their own law and do virtually no forward preparation for this and actually continue buying diesel trains shows us 2040 is pie in the sky as is probably 2050, 2060 ...
why do people only ever include the fuel costs when calculating a car journey ? There are numerous additional costs involved even if having 5 people in the said car would make it cheaper than rail .
There is more going on, Arup are producing a report, the first part will be presented to government in March apparently, the final version before the summer.