High-speed rail – dream on, it’s not going to happen

Roger Davies, Kendal LA9
16 April 2010
Stratford International – all the elegance of a nuclear fallout shelter, says Roger Davies
Stratford International – all the elegance of a nuclear fallout shelter, says Roger Davies

 

OK, I’ve done it, I’ve travelled from St Pancras International to Ashford International via Stratford International and Ebbsfleet International. As I went nowhere foreign, that might all seem a bit daft.

Anyway, having skirted the vast and imposing train shed at St Pancras that houses the odd Eurostar now and again, I found my South Eastern high-speed train tucked way in a corner. The bog standard Hitachi A class commuter train set off and dived into a tunnel. It emerged into half...

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