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Re: 20mph is just the start.
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Originally Posted by Damien
High Speed between London and Birmingham only.
It's just managed decline. Europe has managed a lot of high-speed rail and we give up even trying to get it to Manchester when we originally wanted it to go to Scotland. Complete failure and incompetence.
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The problem is though that Europe embraced the TGV's 360kph standards that we also used for HS1. We have gold plated this for HS2 and gone for 400kph. That has doubled costs already with no upper limit in sight just to shave a few extra minutes off the trip. 
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