HS2 - Birmingham to Manchester scrapped.

[MCFC Wirral]

German trains are great.

 

[nmc]

German trains are great.

As are French, Italian, Swiss and just about every other country in Europe. Steam trains were phased out in the UK in the late 1960s and 60 odd years later half the network is still not electrified. Absolute joke the way we run our railways.

 

[chesterbells]

Everything is being overpaid for. But generally if you CPO a piece of land the landowner only gets 110% of its value. And the valuation is provided by three independent valuers and an average taken. That's my understanding

Ok, thanks, didn’t know that detail. Even that being the case, property values, especially in these kind of rural and semi rural areas the track is going through, even at 110%, are an absolutely enormous cost, what with housing prices in the UK…

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

Second class nation.

 

[Roger Mellie]

Ethamus

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

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Second class nation.

I’m not saying that we aren’t poor but that graph doesn’t mean much. Looking at the towns and cities in the UK over 250k today they all have rail stations.

 

[i kne albert davy]

German trains are great.

I beg to differ Berlin to Leipzig ice train 90 euros return to sit on the fuckin floor or stand up for 3 hours brilliant, I’ve had better trams from the Etihad. Spains trains are pretty good though.

 

[city2]

What’s this north south divide people talk about.

 

[madloaf]

What’s this north south divide people talk about.

Well it comes down to whether you call it a muffin or a barm...

 

[i kne albert davy]

Well it comes down to whether you call it a muffin or a barm...

It’s a barm down south