What fun . it is for the Government to be playing trains. Such a diversion from hearing about austerity all the time. So we are to have a new high speed train from London to Birmingham on a new high speed track. It will only cost £32 billion pounds (make that £64 billion to go on the record of past rail improvements) and work will start very very soon i.e. in 2016 after we have awarded the contract to build it to the Chinese who are ever so good at building railways.
Max Beerbohm left Zuleika Dobson looking at Bradshaw's to get a train to Cambridge. It was then and probably still is a notoriously difficult journey from Oxford. She may be still stuck in a siding in Bletchley.
If we must have a really fast rail link we ought to have it from Oxford to Cambridge even though we can now exchange ideas without getting on a train at all. It will show how keen we are on science and technology.Never mind - boys will be boys.
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