On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:21:59PM +0100, Robert wrote:

So even with 14 full length platforms at Paddington it will be
difficult to match German long distance dwell times. And Munich has a
population of only 1.35 million compared to London's 10 million.

So in summary, the solution to London's transport problems is to bomb
the city flat and start again? Being utterly destroyed and completely
rebuilt ignoring a whole load of legacy Victorian crap certainly seems
to have worked wonders for the German railways.

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