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January 20th 05, 11:42 AM
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London supremacy
In article .com,
wrote: wrote: [snip] I'm glad you agree that "It would be fine". But actually, all I am suggesting is that Birmingham - Manchester - Leeds be made EFFECTIVELY "one city" by high-speed links. It is quite crazy that the links between them are judged and prioritised "cross-country". That won't make them one city, and they still won't be as convenient to do business in as London, high speed links or not. But it's a nice idea. Who would pay? Though birmingham is a bit far from the others, a high speed S-Bahn linking Liverpool with Leeds, with a hub at Manchester might be a nice idea. It is CHEAPER to build NEW railways than to upgrade old ones. That is largely because of the interruption to work caused by the need to keep trains running. There is a down side of course: new railways are fine and dandy, but in time they become old railways and even though the gap between the tracks is wider to allow work on one track while still allowing traffic on the other, there still has to be some connection with the old railway system to allow for maintenance. The idea is that they are all strung together on the same track which can be done, without largely separate routes, eg London- Birmingham, London - Manchester, London - Anywhere, then you can shorten the mileage of track to be built considerably, and with so much traffic concentrated on one route, you justify spending a lot of money getting it good, and providing good connections BETWEEN them, which the current layout lamentably fails to do. Michael Bell -- |
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