High speed rail network

[Brains]

When I heard this I thought it was a good thing, London through Manchester. Then I thought about the objections to every bit of any proposed route that it may take due to NIMBY attitude.

Then I thought M1 M6. Why are train lines not run with major motorways as a double deck where ever possible and adjacent where not? Road on top, rail below, rail on a bridge or in a cutting and the road adjacent following the contour of the land. If that was designed at the very start then it would be easy.

The 2nd to last major train line built was in 1899, so 'BC' (Before car). The next rail line to be built was over 100 years later 2007, HS1, the Eurostar route from London to the tunnel.

It mostly runs alongside the M2 through Kent, and crosses rivers like the Medway on joint road/rail bridges, so in answer to the question of "why not" is "they do!"

 

[mangaman]

Yup, that's one!

But what would one person need be doing on their own in several countries that didn't require contact with people when they got there that couldn't be dealt with using technological links... thereby negating the need to travel?

Ha!

[This shouldn't take long ]

Maybe they are in a creative job and need to meet people face to face

(I'm sure we had this debate before and someone (maybe Ben) was in this position)

 

[domd1979]

Personally, I am quite happy on the rolling stocking on the East Coast line.

That's because they use proper trains...! Locomotives and coaching stock instead of nasty multiple units. The Mark 4 coaches aren't too dis-similar to the Mk3s/HST carriages.

 

[stoatsngroats]

No - cow on the line on the main Glasgow to Edinburgh route. I trust that the pun was unintentional.

Completely unintentional - Checkout this

No offence meant!

 

[CopperBrompton]

Excellent point Ben... or the company could employ several people in each country on a part time basis providing detailed local knowledge linked by video conferencing? [must be a flaw there somewhere... ]

So many one hardly knows where to begin ...