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China builds high-speed railways quickly – why can’t we?

Chris Oldham, Shrewsbury SY4
26 July 2013
 

In the last issue is an article titled, “HS2 delivery timetable is crazy, Hodge tells DfT”. When I visited China in 2010 I rode on the 601-mile railway from Guangzhou to Wuhan, in three-and-a-half hours on a line that hadn’t even been started on my last visit in 2005! In 2010 the journey was possible every 15 minutes, in trains with 16 coaches – imagine this time, frequency and capacity on the London to Inverness line, which, after all, is shorter than Guangzhou-...

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