Look at France for how to do things rail.
yes good but mega expensive high speed netwrok and it taking cash away from non high speed lines...
but show that sncf as a national provider can work - though hard to determine the true cost of it
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There's a lot that could be improved with the current system but it's amazing how quickly people have forgotten quite how bad British Rail were...
I can only speak for my local rail network in the NW of england (I have used it for 20 years give or take), but I can honestly say that the network has only rapidly declined since BR was dissolved. We are still running the same trains on the same routes only with twice the passenger numbers and 3x the ticket price. AND still taking subsidies to do it. It's a joke.
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"The plan is from what i understand, is for the new crossrail trains from east to west london will stop at ooc and continue to Heathrow in a bout 5-10mins -there will be 14trains per hour in each direction."
OK...makes a leetle more sense now if the Crossrail station was going to be built anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2#Crossrail_interchange
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Look at France for how to do things rail.
Yes 15 years ago. Now France is taking the way UK is. For example the SNCF is not longer in charge of train AND railway. It's been 10 years that services have been split up. You use to be able to take any train on the same journey. Now you can't any more. Plus the feckers only give priority to the TGV (high speed train) meaning train for people to go to work are sometimes delayed of 20-25 minutes (the time of the actual journey) to let the TGV get to the final station before hands.
I think I had better service when I was taking the train in southampton to london that I have now.Posted 1 year ago #
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