Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#21
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Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
- Posts: 350
#22
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#23
HS2 was really just for a few business people who since lockdown have probably discovered they no longer need as many trips to London.
However I wonder how many forcibly moved media people now based up north are the reason it is still dominating the news.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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#24
Meanwhile in China.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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#25
If only Isambard Kingdom Brunel had scrapped the GWR beyond Bristol and terminated the other end at West Drayton rather than Paddington they could have spent the money saved improving turnpikes countrywide to improve transport.
It's a no brainer when you think about it.
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#26
Yeah, but Box Tunnel - bit of a vanity project, don't you think?
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Guest 2547- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
#27
Meanwhile, in Japan.....
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#28
Fifty years of bullet trains in Japan
https://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/webmagazine/2014/11/shinkansen.html
And the idiots are about to sell off all the compulsorily purchased land on the route to stop anyone building HS2 in the near future .................................
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#29
But I thought HS2 was to free up the track for freight?
Still, mustn't waste the money saved.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#30
Of you keep borrowing the debt rises
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