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Robert Cox  
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 More options Aug 21 2012, 9:56 am
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From: Robert Cox <coppercap...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:56:12 +0100
Local: Tues, Aug 21 2012 9:56 am
Subject: Re: Plans to join HS1 & HS2 better
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On 2012-08-21 00:21:05 +0100, Arthur Figgis said:

> On 20/08/2012 19:16, Graeme Wall wrote:
>> On 20/08/2012 18:13, Michael Bell wrote:

>>> Let's say we are going to run a train Manchester - Mainz. A run London
>>> - Frankfurt might not be economic (DB don't seem enthusiastic about
>>> it)

>> How do you know they are not?  London-Frankfurt would make sense to DB
>> as it connects the two main European financial centres.

> But what is the intersection of the set of people needing to get
> between them, and the set of people who would use a train? It might
> make more sense to link London and somewhere with loco haulage, or
> Germany with Cornwall (why are Germans obsessed with Cornwall?).

Because ZDF television has filmed lots and lots of her novels many of
which (if not most) are set in Cornwall.

> It all seems to have gone very quiet on DB's plans to run trains from
> the Continent to London. If they are keen, why aren't they shouting
> from the rooftops about it?

--
Robert

 
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