Cross channel commuter rail service planned - Daily Telegraph

[Roland Perry]

In message <rspsf4lk9vgfl2u5t82uqh98999jqt28c8@********>, at 00:38:28 on
Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Tony Polson <docnews2011@***************> remarked:
>"London is becoming the capital of finance

Not much gets past him does it?

>and there are plenty of jobs there,"

There *were*...

>said Thaddée Segard, the Association's president.

--
Roland Perry

[i.g.batten]

> On the contrary, there is already strong interest in running high
> speed services from at least two operators, both of which know they
> would have to invest in special stock

``Would have to'' doesn't necessarily translate to ``are able to''.

ian

[826]

On 22 Oct, 21:02, Tony Polson <docnews2...@***************> wrote:
> i.g.bat...@batten.eu.org wrote:
>
> >> On the contrary, there is already strong interest in running high
> >> speed services from at least two operators, both of which know they
> >> would have to invest in special stock
>
> >``Would have to'' doesn't necessarily translate to ``are able to''.
>
> One of the operators is DB, who are not exactly short of money.

Of course you won't agree with any of this because you prefer ferries
to the Channel Tunnel.

[Mike Roebuck]

>>
>>> On the contrary, there is already strong interest in running high
>>> speed services from at least two operators, both of which know they
>>> would have to invest in special stock
>>
>>``Would have to'' doesn't necessarily translate to ``are able to''.
>
>
>One of the operators is DB, who are not exactly short of money.
>[/color]

True, but it seems they are having major problems [1] with all their
3rd generation ICEs at the moment, and it's almost certainly an ICE3
derivative that might be used for UK services.

[1] Axle problems - one ICE3 set derailed at slow speed in Koeln Hbf
recently, and they have found problems with other sets since.