"Paul Scott" wrote in message

"Mizter T" wrote in message
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You can get from Aberdeen to London by rail in between 7 and 8 hours,
including by direct train, so saying it'd take a couple of days is
simply exaggeration. Additionally there's the sleeper between
Aberdeen to London, so you can do it when your asleep too (if you
can sleep etc etc).

It's not that long ago there was an open access operator trying to
get on the route. Presumably they thought there was a rail market to
tap, but the ORR turned them down...

There may well be a small rail market, but it's going to be mainly
leisure travellers. Someone in the oil business is not going to waste a
whole day travelling by train when they can do the same journey in not
much over an hour by plane. Ineed, day returns to Aberdeen are perfectly
feasible by air, with plenty of time for a meeting or two (I did it
often enough).