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Title: This is how we'll be travelling soon... Post by: Btline on July 14, 2010, 22:41:46 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294732/The-look-inside-futuristic-high-speed-train-nicknamed-Concorde-tracks.html#ixzz0th05vghn
...or maybe not! Discuss! Title: Re: This is how we'll be travelling soon... Post by: devon_metro on July 14, 2010, 23:02:09 Insulting to Concorde; looks utterly ridiculous, let alone entirely impractical.
Title: Re: This is how we'll be travelling soon... Post by: Chris from Nailsea on July 14, 2010, 23:04:28 Would you like me to move this topic to 'the lighter side', then?
Chris ;D Title: Re: This is how we'll be travelling soon... Post by: JayMac on July 15, 2010, 00:30:42 "....like Concorde, the Spitfire or the Routemaster bus......"
So.... a very fast, piston engined train with twin machine guns and one open platform for passengers to embark/disembark. ;D Title: Double deck High Speed design Post by: caliwag on July 15, 2010, 09:27:31 Huh...very pretty, but why?...to Birmingham, wow
It's only going to drain all resources from every other public transport scheme in the country...just like Crossrail!! :o http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1294732/The-look-inside-futuristic-high-speed-train-nicknamed-Concorde-tracks.html Title: Re: Double deck High Speed design Post by: eightf48544 on July 15, 2010, 13:16:04 Perhaps this should move to the lighter side or smoke and mirrors.
Being double deck it will be confined to HS2 proper (assumming it can get into Euston) it won't be able to go North of Birmingham and won't be able to link with HS1 unless Primrose Hill tunnel is considerably enlarged. Title: Re: Double deck High Speed design Post by: RailCornwall on July 15, 2010, 14:24:32 Nothing too radical, looks like an updated version of the Swiss stock introduced with Rail2000.
Title: Re: This is how we'll be travelling soon... Post by: Tim on July 15, 2010, 14:54:10 "....like Concorde, the Spitfire or the Routemaster bus......" So.... a very fast, piston engined train with twin machine guns and one open platform for passengers to embark/disembark. ;D Of perhaps as expensive as concorde, as upcomfortable as a Spitfire and as slow as a bus. Title: Re: This is how we'll be travelling soon... Post by: paul7575 on July 15, 2010, 16:16:23 The designer's main claim to fame seems to be the Pendolino.
Who the heck would put that on their CV if they wanted to impress people... ??? Paul This page is printed from the "Coffee Shop" forum at http://gwr.passenger.chat which is provided by a customer of Great Western Railway. Views expressed are those of the individual posters concerned. Visit www.gwr.com for the official Great Western Railway website. Please contact the administrators of this site if you feel that content provided contravenes our posting rules ( see http://railcustomer.info/1761 ). The forum is hosted by Well House Consultants - http://www.wellho.net |