Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Dover Pilot- Registered: 28 Jul 2018
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,864
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
- Posts: 8,043
Meanwhile in China.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
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.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,050
Yeah, but Box Tunnel - bit of a vanity project, don't you think?
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Meanwhile, in Japan.....
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
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 .................................
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
But I thought HS2 was to free up the track for freight?
Still, mustn't waste the money saved.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,911
Of you keep borrowing the debt rises
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