Hs2

[vic mcclymont]

Looks like HS2 is obsolete before completion.
Virgin has recently tested a Hyper loop successfully.
Hyper loop carriages, operate in a vacuum tube and can reach high speed.
The Koreans have successfully tested a model of this means of transport and it reached a speed of 1000kmph.
Vic

[happy daze john in oz]

Well I have an exeedingly receding hair line and never been in one.

[Tony Taylor]

I have been on the Japanese high speed train (shinkansen?) and was very impressed, it even stops exactly with the doors lined up with the appropriate marking on the platform.
I was on the French one from Paris to Lyon a bit more recently and although fast (still late), was not a patch on the Japanese one.

[happy daze john in oz]

Japan are light years ahead when it comes to transport by rail.

Closest I have seen as to stopping at the exact spot was on the London Underground on the line to Canary wharf.
I am of the understanding this train is driverless, first one to be so.

[Ivan Cloherty]

I have been on the Japanese high speed train (shinkansen?) and was very impressed, it even stops exactly with the doors lined up with the appropriate marking on the platform.
I was on the French one from Paris to Lyon a bit more recently and although fast (still late), was not a patch on the Japanese one.

I travelled on the Japanese bullet trains in the 1990's, they were impressive even then, time keeping, on board service etc all impeccable, much better than the Chunnel trains in the 2000's

[happy daze john in oz]

Victoria, no doubt the guy who set the train on it's journey had been on the slops, no wonder the rain would not stop.
Tried some of that Tassie beer, no worries mate kill a brown dog.

[Doc Vernon]

Have not had the pleasure to Travel on the Japanese High Speed Trains , would love to.
I also have been on the French High Speed and they are good, but if as said not a patch on the Jap one then Boy it must be good!
At least the French ones also stop at each marking, very impressive.
Cheers