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Posted by Rail Blue on Tue Sep 11 10:12:51 2007, in response to Re: Phila Inquirer: Gas prices, global warming renewing interest in high-speed rail, posted by Fytton on Tue Sep 11 04:24:22 2007. 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.I'm sorry, but this is reminiscent of mistakes from the 1840s again: this time, the tirades against the Midland Railway in the local press of Sheffield, for making them ride a local train to Masborough (then a village NW of Rotherham) to catch a southbound train. I think a more German model would be better, where the ICE stations are in cities (even Kassel-Wilhelmshoehe isn't all that bad -- at least it's got five tram lines -- and, besides, the layout of Kassel-Hbf isn't exactly conductive to high-speed through running). Probably more significantly, the NBS to relieve the Riedbahn and Main-Neckar-Bahn has been altered to serve Mannheim-Hbf (and may yet be altered to serve Darmstadt-Hbf) after the locals told the Bundesbahn quite what they thought of the original scheme. |
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