Adonis: High-speed rail is possible in the UK

[vulgarmachine2]

The best system I can think of would be to link London and Birmingham as a 320kph line, and then connect Birmingham New Street to this. Then by building new stock to british loading gauge (modified ETR600 for example), we could connect Birmingham to Manchester, Liverpool and Scotland. This would free up capacity on the west coast mainline and would also ensure that that the major cities of the UK were covered. Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool must be connected to a high speed network.

[octokyle]

posted 2009, today is the year 2011

[dhksrksalem]

london~manchester or london~new castle it's short distance

is it really necessary?

[Spraggsquatch]

A new high speed train is so un-necessary, especially when there already is one from London Euston - Glasgow getting you there in 4 and 1/2 hours. I was there before I left!

[Japanpenis]

wow..great High-speed train...

[screammac]

there are already train that link mager city like the tilting virgen train how have tilting trains to london manchestre glasgo and edighbro if they do them lines agen the train whant be able to tilt so they need to get therer facts rights

[anthonypurvis8619]

10, 15, 20, 30 years is this man living in the real world. Government are more than happy to connect London to Paris so southerners can quickly jump the channel to there french villa's or build cross rail so Londoners save 45 mins at rush hour, but as for the other 90% of the population well we can wait 30 years apparently.

[atraherne]

@anthonypurvis8619 Yeah I've noticed that also, I'm from London area and think its rediculous that we should have yet another underground rail tunnel yet some of the biggest cities in the UK don't have any. I heard Birmingham put in a proposal for an underground but it was dismissed by central government.

I think the rest of the country need to seek more private investment for major projects such as rail and then negotiate central to chip in. Its the only way as sad and as unfair as it is

[jnorth]

They should improve the present system before they have a bloody high speed line.

I live near Sheffield and Leeds and I travel on a 30 year old piece of crap to work for gods sake!

[Mikeybirchall]

High Speed lines would be recomended and compare Japan to England and Japan Network is more faster becuase my friend said England Rail Network is slow becuase he is used to Japanese Rail Network. A was also thinking after Tain Rail Network Upgrade and to wrok on Planes and how can change Cemical from Petrol to something more Electric Plane or Hydrgen and once compleated Planes and Cars and Transport all green much beta for our Planet and help global warming.

[scottishlowoflow]

common sense dictates that you can cram more things to move along a set route (like a motorway) if the vehicles travel slower. if capacity was to be genuinely increased then they would slow the trains down and fit more of them onto the lines.

put tolls on the entrances to motorways and then people won't barge their way onto them and then motorways won't be as used as they are

[Freedom20xx]

maid in japan.

High Speed Rail System.

[sorachi84]

@Freedom20xx

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