The Rising Cost of Train Travel...

[Aperitif]

Job applicants will be expected to have a magnetic personality. Vernon's pies will be delivered yesterday, and eaten even more quickly by a new breed of sumo student. I wonder how one might put the brake on? And what would the 'old uns' think?

 

[raleighnut]

How do we get to squish our pennies on those lines mister.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Crikey - really? 0 - 600 kmph - 0 in 1.8 km? I cannea take it Captain.

 

[Piemaster]

Shinkansen 320km/h celebrating 50 years. HS2 400km/h not yet started.
It ain't that long ago I found myself standing next to the Rocket in the science museum, with a slack jawed gawp.