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Re: Phila Inquirer: Gas prices, global warming renewing interest in high-speed rail |
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Posted by Fytton on Tue Sep 11 04:24:22 2007, in response to Re: Phila Inquirer: Gas prices, global warming renewing interest in high-speed rail, posted by Rail Blue on Mon Sep 10 12:18:20 2007. 'Midland Mainline has already proposed an 'East Midlands Parkway' station in the middle of the Nottingham-Derby-Leicester triangle, which could hypothetically be served by a future HSR system for connections with other services.''IMHO, that would be very silly indeed. The idea of riding a bus from anywhere in Leicester to a field outside Loughborough fills me with horror.' I wasn't suggesting a bus: I was assuming existing train services would stop there and a TGV station would be added. I was hypothesizing a French-style TGV network with a new 'out-of-town' station for the East Midlands (also serving the airport, which is why Midland Mainline proposed East Midlands Parkway in the first place). I'm not convinced about including Leicester in its catchment, but it doesn't seem as if your minimal TGV network would cover Leicester otherwise. I do think the TGV concept requires new thinking about trains, treating the stations more like airports, which a lot of people will drive to (hence 'Parkway' stations), while others will get there on local trains running on the 'old' railways. |
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