"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message i, at
00:53:45 on Sun, 14 Mar 2010, Tom Anderson
remarked:

The sixth thing that's obvious is that connections from Heathrow to
Europe have to be frequent (two an hour?), because people won't move
from plane to train if they have to wait two hours for it.

Where is this apparently single point called "Europe"?

There is no single point called Europe, it's a sort of continent thingy,
just to the east of Britain. I'm not sure where you got the idea it was
point; certainly not from anything in my post.

It's the part where you say "2tph Heathrow to Europe". Unless people
reckon that's been delivered when they pass Calais, 2tph to "somewhere in
Europe" is likely to be one train every two hours to Paris plus one or two
trains a day to a couple of dozen other places.

The other day I posted a list of ten separate destinations served in a
couple of hours from the much smaller airport, East Midlands.

You might delight everyone with 2tph to Paris, but what of the dozens of
other places they might want to be going instead?

Doubtless fictional.

What's fictional about a list of places (on the mainland, not holiday
islands) flown to from an airport?

I am even dubious about this alleged 'Paris'.

As far as I can see most people seem to assume that a shuttle to Paris,

For most destinations Brussels is a better connecting point, even if only
because you don't have to change stations

tim