Bullet trains coming to the UK

[TimberWolf]

It's amazing, in a country where trains fares are so high, that we haven't money to hire the brains to design and build our own. It's not as if these trains are going to be made on the cheap in China. And we invented the things. All that money must be going in some rich person's pockets instead of techies now long since dead.

[Doggy Styles]

The train companies can’t even maintain their current stock. The number of times that trains are delayed or cancelled because the doors do not work is countless. Moreover the track is too bumpy and the worst I have ever known it signals fail on a daily basis. Privatisation has brought in the minimum of maintenance and poorest standards in order to produce the maximum profits.

I wasn't a supporter of rail privatisation, but I do remember that train services were poor before that happened.

So I wouldn't blame privatisation specifically, it just brought a variation in the reasons.

[Lockhouse]

This order should not be going abroad.

[eek]

Japanese bullet trains: Blow for British industry as Government puts in £1billion order | Mail Online

Is the Great Western rail track currently electrified?

It sounds like a major leap forward for the oldest and perhaps the most derided, expensive, shoddy, unreliable and tulipest rail network in the western world (HS1 excepted), except:

How can it be a blow to British Industry when it create 500 jobs here on a long term basis with more promised as Hitachi start bidding on other EU contracts.

Bombardier's problems are nothing to do with Hitachi and everything to do with purchase agreements that require finance where Bombardier can't offer the same deals as Hitachi or Siemens.

[eek]

How can it be a blow to British Industry when it create 500 jobs here on a long term basis with more promised as Hitachi start bidding on other EU contracts.

Bombardier's problems are nothing to do with Hitachi and everything to do with purchase agreements that require finance where Bombardier can't offer the same deals as Hitachi or Siemens.

I should also add these trains are the same trains already used on the new High speed trains in Kent (the ones that go to St Pancras). The only difference is this time we will be building some of them last time we didn't.

[wobbegong]

Bullet trains coming to the UK

I thought we already had those at Stockwell.

[TimberWolf]

I should also add these trains are the same trains already used on the new High speed trains in Kent (the ones that go to St Pancras). The only difference is this time we will be building some of them last time we didn't.

Is that on the HS1 line? I didn't know we already had bullet trains in the UK (aside from whatever runs on the HS1). The last time I went on a train it looked like something built by a committee in the 1970s.





High-speed rail in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Robinho]

Yey the government is wasting more money on an outdated mode of passenger transport.

[Mich the Tester]

Yey the government is wasting more money on an outdated mode of passenger transport.

Why do you think high speed trains are outdated?

[Robinho]

They are not cost effective.

Trains are only good for freight these days.