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Correcting the misleading claims of HS2’s critics

02 May 2014
 

Paul Withrington adds to the nonsense spoken about capacity by opponents of HS2 (Letter LTT 18 Apr). The figure of 170 passengers per Virgin train that he quotes is simply an abstraction obtained by dividing total passenger miles by total train miles, and so does not apply to any actual train. In practice, loadings vary widely by time of day, direction of travel and stage of journey, so whilst some trains may well be almost empty when running at the fringes of the day and of the network, that...

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