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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Oh dear. The sad thing is we have already had a bailout before on rail but it seems havent learned from that lesson.
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What was that lesson?
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I would think twice actually.
Didnt you say they £5 higher? thats significant.
On a train journey from london to say glasgow, the 20mins is even less relevant.
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Chrys, you are mathematically challenged in the extreme.
How on earth do you imagine that a 30-minute time saving on the 100-mile journey from Birmingham to London would translate into a 20-minute saving between Glasgow and London?
If the time saving is something like 30 minutes per 100 miles, compared with the best speeds currently offered by Pendolinos operating on the WCML, then from Glasgow to London you would be looking at a time saving of more like two hours - reducing the journey time to under 2.5 hours and frankly, making a rail journey more attractive than flying, given all the faffing about that comes with air travel (time in the air between Glasgow and London is about an hour, but then you have to add security, boarding and a train journey into central London from LHR or LTN).